This week I did a few different things. I worked on IDs and the InDesign and began the Color Wheel training. I also met with Bridget for Cascade onboarding. I’m excited to get more familiar with Cascade and be able to work with it more.

 

For the color wheel training, I wasn’t really vibing with the idea of a usual wheel, so I decided to do more of a text arrangement with a kind of LED/fluorescent effect. Basically like a lot of the early LED work the artist Jenny Holzer did if she didn’t have any funding lol… I also used a portion from a popular poem called “Jessica gives me a chill pill”.

http://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/12/04/36399-2/

InDesign Training Part 2

I learned more InDesign tools and concepts by making a flyer for “Conversations on Race and Gender,” based on a lecture series from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department. I got really good feedback from Megan and Poonum as my design changed in every iteration. Here are some versions:

Photo IDs

I edited some photo ID’s for the COLA Website:

Infographics Basic Training

I created an Infographic including information from a National Geographic article titled, “Apples of Eden: Saving the Wild Ancestor of Modern Apples.” The article mentions the ancient woodlands of Kyrgystan and its surrounding regions and the genetic diversity of wild apples. I came up with different graphics to represent the information mentioned, here are some design iterations:

 

Weekly Recap

At the beginning of the week, Maddy helped me hash out what was going wrong with the Canvas callout buttons’ color. Turns out, the color profiles of PNGs and JPGs are slightly different, and exporting all other Canvas assets as PNGs seemed to do the trick.

Poonum and I are reworking the InDesign Part II training to be more explicit with expectations and design best practices.

I also got started on the pixel art training! It’s super fun so far.