Week 10

Project: French Connexion

Start: Oct 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy

Link to UTFC Website: https://frenchconnexions.net/

This week I schedule meeting with Marianne to talk about how to implement my design better into the web development.

 

 

Project: CTX Retold

Start: September 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy

Link to Prototype

I continue to update the design due to the new feedback from Celeste.

Changes:

• Body Font: Lato, Extra Bold
• Quote Font: DM Serif Display
• New Maroon Color: #881A1D
• Black Background Color: #313131 + #000000 banner color

 

 

Project: Beyond Sweatt v Painter Presentation

Start: Oct 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy

This project is to redesign the powerpoint for Beyond Sweatt v Painter Presentation for Olivia Muna with the consistent typography and color palette choice. Since there are lots of historical documents insert into the powerpoint, we decided to highlight on the important texts and create a clearer and bigger typed-text block for better understanding. We also minimized the number of the documents that showed on one page so the audience are able to focus better. At the same time, we insert the photos of either author or related figures for the documents to ensure the storytelling.

 

 

Project: Green Screen 8.3B

Start: Nov 14th 2022

To be Completed: Dec 1st 2022

Staff Guidance: Yazz and De’sha

I was asked to find pictures of foods and drinks for the UTFC projects, prioritizing pictures from Antananarivo and Madagascar.

UTFC Green Screen 8.3B Food and Drink

 

 

Project: Elements and Principles of Design

Start: Oct 20th 2022

To be Completed: Nov 15th

Elements and Principles of Design

I learned several design principles from this training:

• Repetition
• Rhythm (similar visual elements but the different distance and frequencies create joy)
• Movement (arranging the composition in such a way that the objects lead the viewer’s eye along a path)
• Balance
• Proportion/Scale
• Negative Space
• Contrast
• Emphasis
• Variety
• Unity/Harmony (taking different elements in a composition and creating visual similarity by the way one arranges them)
• Hierarchy

When I design, I should be careful with the rhythm, balance, proportion and unity.  In order to emphasize one visual element, I can utilize contrast, emphasis, hierarchy by changing color, size and volume. Movement and negative space can lead the viewer’s eye and create excitement. One design work should consist of several design principles so the image would balanced and noticeable.

 

Marketing for UT Summer Courses

Freshmen Postcard

I’m currently working on the marketing campaign for UT summer courses. I was introduced to the project and to the marketing team last week, and gotten started on updating and redesigning the assets. This postcard is one of the print ads directed at freshmen to take summer classes at UT. I began with a wide variety of layout options, then narrowed it down to a few. I’ve been iterating on the color and text so far.

Screen Ads

These graphics will appear on screens in UT buildings all over campus. The edits here are pretty minimal, mainly just updating dates and classes available.

 

 

Christmas @ Winedale 

Project: Christmas @ Winedale Map
Due On: November 4th
Notes: For this project, I was assigned to help refresh a design for my client, Winedale. Winedale is a historic site run by UT’s Briscoe Center: https://briscoecenter.org/winedale/

 

UTFC Compass 

Project: UTFC Custom Icon
Due On: November 4th
Notes: For this project, I was assigned to design a compass to cover the LAITS crew and their tripod in the 360 videos they recorded in France.

 

STA Poster 

Project: Tech STA Poster Design
Due On: November 10th
Notes: For this project, I was assigned to redesign the LAITS STA poster for other STA groups such as Classroom Support, Computer Support, Tech Integration, Systems Support, and COERLL.

Color Iterations:

Decided Color Scheme:

French Textbook Slides

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
Completed on: Nov 7

I worked on a vocab slideshow for the upcoming French Textbook project.

[UTCF] Greenscreen More Colors and Shopping

History of Design Training

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

This is my second draft of my little graphic for the History of Design training. The full tutorial can be found here.

GOV 336M Course Graphics

Client /Prof: Rob Moser
Completion Status: Started on Nov 3
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Completed on: TBD

I started working on the course graphics for GOV 336M: Government and Politics of Russia, which will be used on its Canvas page and lecture segments.

This first image is a draft of the collage I made for various backgrounds, which I’m hoping to edit and make a more uniform color over:

This is a version of the Canvas buttons:

And this is the current iPad overlay:

Week LI

Flyer GSD360 for Spring ’23

This week, I started off with the original grid concept, at a tilt.

I also tried a tilt (shear), but didn’t love how the photos looked, and wasn’t sure if I wanted to spend the time tilting every individual frame separate from the clip-masked photo.

My other idea was to manipulate the photo background and caption block separately, which led to this. I made the photos smaller, tiled, and gradient-mapped.

Further clarification led to keeping the bahausy geometric elements and simplifying the design, plus making a wider one for screens.

GOV 312L US National Security

Project: Course Graphics – GOV 312L US National Security
Client /Prof: Jason Brownlee
completion status: WIP
staff guidance: Maddy K, Suloni robertson
STA team members: N/A
description/plans: TBA
To be completed: 12/5/2022

For this course, so far all I’ve done is draft some studio backgrounds. The professor wanted something that shows contrast between inconsistent points in American foreign policy, so the photos such as Rumsfeld greeting Sadam and the gulf war are juxtaposed. I played with sepia and greyscale, and various types of noise texture.

The studio team helped us test the backdrops, and we’re probably going with the noiseless sepia (now a purpleish-grey).