Chatter Logos

This week I worked on creating vector logos for Chatter from the drafts I sketched out last week. Here’s what I came up with (the last 3 are the most recent; I think the one with cursive font is my favorite)

 

More LRC Mockups

Chatter: Branding/Logo Ideas

First off, in case you don’t know what Piazza is, Piazza is “a course-based Q&A discussion board for students, professors, and TAs.” Furthermore, this winter break LAITS will be developing a replacement tool for Piazza that is unique to UT, and it will be called CHATTER. On that note, this new discussion board will need a logo/branding to accompany it.

For this assignment I was tasked to brainstorm some sketches for that logo/branding with the goal of getting directions and ideas down on paper. I was also asked to do three things throughout the process:

1. Do not feel like I must include a graphic element, since a text-based logo can be just as strong in the right cases.
2. Consider the tone of the brand: Friendly – Academic – Learning oriented – Community – Asking questions – Sharing knowledge – Safe-space
3. I was asked to please avoid Longhorn imagery, since it’s owned by TX Athletics

And with all of that in mind, I got down to business and sketched out some of my ideas. This is how they turned out:

My reasoning behind these sketches goes as follows:

1. “Chatter” in capital letters and make the spaces inside the A and R into chat boxes 💬
2. “Chatter” in lowercase letters and make the C and the spaces inside the a and e into chat boxes 💬
3. Chatter, but put the C inside a chat box
4. Chatter divided inside two chat boxes (my favorite version)
5. Learning version: person saying Chatter
6. Academic version: person saying Chatter
7. Option 4 but inside a laptop – because this discussion board will be online
8. Need Help? Chatter style poster (not the most viable option, I know)
9. Based on the squirrels on campus (since we cannot use Longhorn imagery)
10. Based on the squirrels on campus (since we cannot use Longhorn imagery)
11. Use the UT tower somehow, maybe as an exclamation mark

Weekly Classical Music Recommendation

I’ve been forgetting about this weekly post but I’ll get back onto it now! I’ve been revisiting old pieces that I was obsessed at one point. Not that I don’t like them anymore, they’re great still. By obsessed I meant listening to it on loop for a few hours. So I still listen to them now, just not on loop.

Here’s Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor. This is one of Chopin’s most favorite pieces, and it is both technical and lyrical / musical. Personally, I felt like there are a lot of characteristics packed in this piece: sweetness, sorrow, drama / climax, resolution, etc.

My favorite performance of this is below, by Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman.

HIS315K: Presentation Remake

🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎶 🎄

Hello there blog, once again we meet. Classes are finally over for the semester, and ’tis the season for finals… But it’s also December and everyday we are closer to my favorite holiday of the year, so I’m very excited about that. Nevertheless, I’m here to work and work I shall. So let me explain what this activity was about.

 

For this activity, I was tasked to remake one of the presentations made by Dr. Robert Olwell for his HIS 315K course. The presentation I worked with was specifically the one titled “Old Spain to New Spain” which was exciting because I do know a bit about Spain’s history. That being said, the only thing I really had to do for this task was to transfer the information from his past format to the new template Maddy prepared. This is partly how that turned out:

 

Battle Casts Updates

I put more assets sent over by the client from the Xd file. I had to do some manipulations of the assets to make them display correctly at various viewport, but I think it’s been going well. Here are some screenshots of some of the pages I’ve been working on at various viewport sizes.