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Week 8

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GSD 360 Poster and Slide

Client /Prof: Professor Jana Weiss
completion status: Started on Oct 24
staff guidance: Valerie
To be completed: Finished Oct 27

This week I mainly focused on this GSD 360 project, where I designed an 8.5×11 poster and an intro slide for the GSD 360: Learning from the Germans? Transatlantic Memory Cultures class.

Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. It didn’t change too much visually since last week, but I played around more with calendar events and design this week.

UTFC French Textbook

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
To be completed: TBD

I just barely started looking at the UTFC French Textbook Project, working on the “More Colors and Shopping List” vocab slides. I didn’t get super far to warrant a picture, but I’ll be working on it more this week!

tockify wrapper code

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data-tockify-width (or just width in WordPress). This limits the calendars width. You need to include units, e.g. 400px or 50%. It’s usually better not to set this and limit the width using your own wrapper div.

Week 7

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Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. Here is the calendar embedded again:

Alternatively, here is the link to the calendar on a more regular webpage view.

 

The above embedded might revert back to not being customized after the premium trial runs out in a few days, so further videos on what the calendar is meant to look like at this stage can be found here.

STA Trainings – History of Design

Completion Status: Started on Oct 20
Staff Guidance: Valerie
To be completed: TBD

I made a first draft of the history of design training, where I chose the Swiss style. I did this in Photoshop, and for the colors I used the “blending options” popup and edited the RGB settings. The full tutorial can be found here. 

 

….and then I also tried my hand at the STA blog banner, but I’m assuming we’re not meant to show progress on that to keep anonymity.

Week L

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Week L

Isn’t it weird that Roman numerals jump from XLIX to L? Why isn’t it IL for 49? I guess it’s to standardize the tens place. Anyways,

Fall 2022 STA Poster

As of writing, both of these are wrapped!

The video poster underwent some minor changes since last week – the strips have square holes now.

Project team went through many more iterations – about half of them within the last hour of crunch time Friday. Here’s a summarized chronology:

And the final cut:

Flyer GSD360 for Spring ’23

Project: Flyer GSD360 for Spring ’23
Client /Prof: Jette Gindner
completion status: WIP
staff guidance: Maddy K, Suloni robertson
STA team members: N/A
description/plans: TBA
To be completed: TBA
This one’s exciting! My first real client graphics in a while: a flyer for a course on early German film, from the silent era to 1945. The idea so far is a grid of movie stills/posters, with one black rectangle for the course info, and then either slanting or rotating it. Not much to show… yet!

Week 6

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Week 6

Audio STA Poster (10/10 – 10/13)

Staff guidance: Maddie
STA team members: De’sha & Leilani

This past week was mostly dedicated to wrapping up the Audio STA poster. I loved the constant feedback and suggestions from other staff members (De’sha and Maddie) which helped improve the poster with every new draft. This is probably the most time I have ever spent working in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator (exciting but definitely a learning curve).

1st draft & 2nd draft

 

3rd & 4th draft