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Joseph C. TenBarge Outstanding STA Award Certificate

Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on March 20
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Complete by: ASAP

For the STA Presentation, I worked on the certificate for the Joseph C. TenBarge Outstanding STA Award. The following is my current draft!

 

STA Presentation PowerPoint Template

Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on March 10
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Complete by: ASAP

Also for the STA Presentation I made the template PowerPoint that the chosen STAs will use to create their presentation on their selected project.

 

STA Presentation Poster Edits

Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on March 8
Staff Guidance: Maddy
STA Team Members: Leilani
Complete by: Completed on March 10

Before Spring Break I worked on some minor edits to the STA Presentation Poster. I added a few more of the knick knacks on the sides and color corrected some of the STAs to be more warm-colored due to the blue backdrop that was used when taking the photos.

STA Blog Banner Edits

Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on March 10
Staff Guidance: Valerie
Complete by: March 22

Updated the STA blog banner recently with Daniella’s caricature and also updated my own! I was working on making a new version of my little caricature outside of work so I mostly just copied and pasted that here.

 

Back from Spring Break!

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STA Poster 

Project: Spring 2023 STA Presentation Poster
Notes: This week, I’ve been focusing on polishing up the STA presentation poster. I finally got to a good point where I can send off the final export! Luckily, fellow STA Lorena helped make some minor tweaks and it’s looking great! I’m excited for others to see the poster and all of the hard work everyone has contributed to this poster assignment!

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After edits:

 

Course Graphics Re-edits

Project: Tower Tools
Due On: March 22
Notes: This project was reopened for Canvas Banner edits. The client requested to change the name of the banners. I altered the text to be white along with editing the backdrop a bit to be less teal and higher contrast.

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Week 21

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Week 21

STA Presenter Intros

Project: STA Presenter Intros
Client: LAITS
started on: March 20, 2023
staff guidance: Maddy
description/plans: I’m essentially creating slides for the STAs who will potentially be presenting at the STA Presentation. The images will play in a video format and show the STA’s name, department, major, grade, and graduation year. The video will feature a variety of poses as well as knickknacks from their respective STA department. The goal is for these to match stylistically with the other STA Presentation assets.

 

after edits made 3/22/23

   

*made a template for Lorena to begin working on them

Intro Training: Style A&B Course Graphics (contd)

Project: Style A&B Course Graphics
Client /Prof: hypothetically Robert Quigley
Completion status: started March 2, 2023
Staff guidance: Valerie
Description/plans:  Create a full course design in Style A and Style B. I’m making course graphics that I would imagine for a class I am currently taking, True Crime Podcasts with Professor Robert Quigley. I would recommend it to anyone interested in journalism or the slightest interest in true crime!
To be completed: March 21, 2023 (woohoo!)

iPad Overlay Style A & B

     

Weeks LXVI-LXVII

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Weeks LXVI-LXVII

Am I supposed to write these during break?

GSD Course Posters

Not much to say about the screen ads. Maddy made the template, and they turned out good.

We did get one last poster request for a forgotten course. I had fun finding the image, and scaling it up. Never underestimate posterize tool.

TGDP 6

This one was a whole lot of text. It ran well off the page when I first started pasting it in at the previous font size, so it took a lot of experimentation to get a very first draft that didn’t have the best hierarchy.

Maddy provided a better layout, split into sections, for me to standardize and fine-tune. Still snug, but working better. We are now in stage 2, various text corrections.

Vector logo recreation

Would it surprise you to learn that some very old intricate vector graphics were not backed up in Box and all we have are the exports? :’) I even combed the folders despite Maddy having already done so, and couldn’t find anything. Oh well, a good opportunity to relearn the pen tool. I’ve been tracing these in red, so they look kind of like evil sigils.

So far, 12.5 / 16 done.

Registration Pre-roll

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Summer Marketing

Pre-Roll Video with “Registration Open” Messaging

Project: Summer Marketing Pre-roll Videos
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Started Mar 20
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Adding bubbles and banners with “registration open” messaging
To be completed: Mar. 22

The final pre-roll edit consists of adding bubbles and banners with “registration open now” messaging so that they can run after April 3. I designed the little bubble that appears at the beginning and animated it. I’m also planning on reusing a banner asset from a previous pre-roll video to add into the outro, again advertising that registration is now open.

 

Week 10

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Week 10

Project: Texas Beyond History documentation

Client: Texas Beyond History

Started on: Started February 28, 2023

Completion status: Awaiting feedback

Completed on: March 20, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy, Marianne

Description/plans: write Git Wiki documentation to help clients use git in Adobe Dreamweaver

 

Check it out here :^)

 

 

 

Training: WordPress

 

Training: Word Press

Started on: Started March 21, 2023

Completion status: In progress

Staff Guidance: Valerie

This week I will start on WordPress trainings