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February 12, 2026 By Tomas Marulanda-Mesa

-Spring 2026 Voting PSAs-

In January, I focused on making three separate designs for the Spring 2026 Voting PSA’s, Register to Vote, Early Voting, and Election Day.

Register to Vote PSA

Out of these two styles, I combined the two to make the background blue and the text red, leaving less white space. The hand was moved on top of the frame in order to convey the imagery of the hand dropping a ballot into the ballot box.

Finally, the hand was scrapped and replaced with a vector of multiple people with voting sheets. The text was right adjusted and a motif was established with the top bar of red, white, and blue stripes.

Early Voting PSA

This design went through the most iterations, starting with the first one which included a photo of two people showing their voting stickers. The second iteration replaced the image with a vector of a crowd walking over to a polling station.

Later, the hand was brought back, this time painted over and vectorized. “Skip the Lines” was also changed to “Cast an early”. In this iteration the striped motif was brought back in.

The final version added stars to fill in some of the empty blue space, and the informative text below “VOTE” was adjusted left. The stripes on the sides were also cut in half.

Election Day PSA

This design went through one continuous iteration with little major changes. In Photoshop, I created the main project file for the design, and used Illustrator for the voter sticker asset. Just like the previous two designs, I used the red, white, and blue stripes, and included the informative text on the bottom.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2026/02/12/spring-2026-voting-psas/

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We are STAs

Save the Date STA Presentation Flyer

February 6, 2026 By Sasha Kenney

Save the Date STA Presentation Flyer


Recently, I was tasked to create the flyer for this year’s STA presentation. The theme for this presentation is art gallery.

IDEATION + SKETCHING

I began this project by drafting several different compositions for the flyer, starring my favorites.

The art director for this project, Shanda, agreed with my favorites, so I continued to tweak those specific layouts, using the LAITS logo for the color scheme.

This specific idea stood out to both of us, so I continued to refine it.

ITERATIONS

I found assets for the frames, and then began on the final. Here are some iterations with different font styles.

With this version, I played around with paint splatter backgrounds.

Shanda’s feedback led us closer in this direction, the right option being where we are currently at.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We were STAs

HIS314K Course Graphics

February 6, 2026 By Sasha Kenney

HIS314K Course Graphics


Last semester, I was tasked to create course graphics for HIS314K: The History of Mexican Americans in the US, taught by Professor Monica Muñoz Martinez.

I worked with two base images, experimenting with various takes on gradients and overlays.

Upon receiving feedback, I moved towards a more subtle overlay.

The image with people was selected by Professor Martinez, so I committed to using that for the assets, working from there. I worked with adjusting the logo and text distribution on the canvas homepage banner, as requested as well.

The client preferred the first choice with smaller text, so I was able to finalize this asset.

This semester, the client requested an edit to be made to the Canvas Homepage Banner and the Canvas Dashboard Banner- to change her name to Professor Monica Muñoz Martinez, so I applied this edit.

Final Assets

Canvas Homepage Banner

Canvas Dashboard

Canvas Buttons

PPT Title Slide

PPT Segment Slide

iPad Overlay

I really enjoyed this project. It taught me a lot about working back and forth with a client in a timely manner.

STATUS: FINISHED

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We are STAs

Summer Marketing: Countdown Posts

February 6, 2026 By Sasha Kenney

Summer Marketing: Countdown Posts


Worked in After Effects on this post, worked with Lila to figure out the mechanics of the flipping numbers. New versions of this with new numbers to come.

STATUS: MORE VERSIONS IN PROGRESS

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We are STAs

Minimalism | Spring 2026 Roster Poster: UPDATES!

February 6, 2026 By Sasha Kenney

Minimalism | Spring 2026 Roster Poster: UPDATES!


This project has returned this semester! Now in the stages of final edits, adding headshots, and overall finalizing.

For a bit, we played around with slight edits of the layout, including new STA teams. This was an attempt to include the Systems STA.

But we pivoted and tried returning to the original lineup of teams with the actual current number on each.

Due to the fact that this final number would mess with the centering of the layout, we changed the team lineup altogether from computer support to classroom support. This would keep the layout symmetrical and centered. Now I was able to begin adding the headshots and names.

CURRENT ITERATION!

  • waiting on updated headshots, moving into photo editing now

STATUS: IN PROGRESS

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We are STAs

December – January

February 6, 2026 By Nicholas Peasely

Summer 2026


Summer Marketing

Instagram

Tuition Guide

2025

2026

  • Added current design motifs
  • Removed flags form all course listings
  • Fixed course list spacing

FINAL POSTCARD

Before assets

  • 4 photo collage
  • Showcasing different summer activities
    • Studying
    • Traveling
    • Hanging with friends
    • Interning/Working

Iterations

  • Photos didn’t align with expectations/direction
    • Lack of diversity in actions and people
    • Some didn’t work within the context of a postcard
    • On-Campus backgrounds

–> Revert back to original layout = ASHA ON EVERY ASSET ☆

FINAL FINAL

Spring Digital Display

FINAL 11×17


IHS Logo Design

Client had strong sense of direction!

  • Something sophisticated and modern
  • Played around with different opacity and geometric lettering styles! All letters are vectored shapes
IHS-LogoDesignDownload

Filed Under: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, We are STAs

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