First mockup of two designs for a speaker event.

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Completed ads for the speaker event

The original Ransom Williams page layout:

New design layout options:

 

 

 

This past week I completed a poster for the history department to promote an upcoming speaker event on the impact of the Cultural Revolution. As any Chinese person would know, this was a tumultuous and chaotic time with a disputed outcome. I’m actually very glad I got to make the poster because I identify with the event. The department gave me the image below to start.

And I tried a few ideas to make the image pop.

idea 1

idea 2

(this one ended up looking more Japanese than Chinese)

 

Below is the design I ended up using. The color red came naturally (color of the revolution, color of the flag), and I thought the navy was a nice contrast for the details at the bottom of the poster.

I’ve been working on Professor Mark Sainsbury COLA Profile.

I set up his books page with all the cover photos

I worked on his publications page so that they would display an abstract with a drop-down drawer.

A continuation of the Workday project

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2016/10/07/18253-2/

Original template that I need to rework. No photo/video of the professor + logo

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First two quick mockups I made, based off the color style guide and palette from the edX video introduction.

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Made the logo smaller and lengthened the text boxes to create a more cohesive layout.

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Added the musicians in the background, increasing transparency to fade them into the background. Other objects also got a lowered opacity to show the musicians.

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“Daytime” mockup with the almond color from the style guide faded out because of low opacity.

“Nighttime” version of the same mockup, this time with blue off the style guide.

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Finishing touches on the alignment and layout.

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The client chose the ‘nighttime’ version, so I guided out the text.

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Shown with guides and layers. Many of the instructions for objects were in the layer titles.