Thuy assigned me 5 lecture powerpoint to convert from keynote and I finished them all and now just waiting for her review. I have a feeling more will probably be given to me. I didn’t include any pictures of the actual slides because it might not be content the professor wants shared. So here is a picture of them on my desktop and the excel spreadsheet I filled out.
I am going to start helping out with more cascade requests in the office now. Here is one of the first ones I was given that Suloni was able to make a basecamp for, but for the most part I might just have to keep up with it via email. The lock-up needed to be inserted into the site so Suloni, Valerie, and I went in and looked up where to insert into the site as practice while discussing the new roles I am going to have. It took till over night to publish on the site, but in the mean time I wrote up a template email on what other services for canvas we offer so departments can make their pages more full with content. On the left is my simplified original template based off of what I knew and then Suloni added her edits and more information to include in the image on the right. Now it is just up to Valerie to let me know what images I should use for the email and it will be sent off.
We discovered that a lot of section 2 was just not made and overlooked. Maddy was quick to assign out a bunch of things to the STAs. She also gave me quick labels to make for GRAV to finalize the completion of other labs. Here is all the stuff I did half of last week and today. A lot of it looks choppy for copyright protection but it is proof of work! Glad I am able to help get things moving.
project: Editing Course Companion
Client /Prof: Professor Rajgopal Raghunathan
completion status: Started Nov 1, 2019
staff guidance: Suloni Robertson and Valerie Tran
description/plans: Redesign elements within the Course Companion to match look of flow charts. Added elements to create score guides within the booklet.
To be completed: Nov 1, 2019
Below are a few screenshots of edits that I made in the word document. The big gray rectangles are to hide information in the table, not a design element. The very bottom has all the colors of the palette used for the booklet. This prompted the use of purple and orange for the scale and table. The text within the table that is covered is in blue. Little boxes were also put in place so the student had an area next to the text to write in their number.
In terms of an update I mean it is something new that I discovered working on a Canvasser. In the canvasser, the numbers you input would appear in the submitted pop up window that lets you know what the correct answer was compared to your response. Look at my last recent posts about a canvasser I put together to see what I mean. However, the numbers need to have a “.” in between them and my output only has “1 2 3 4” instead of “1 . 2 . 3 . 4 ” like Emily Park’s previous canvasser that is almost identical in layout and exactly the same in how it is put together with commands. Maddy told me to find out how to add the “.” in canvasser, but it turned out Emily had added them in the PNG and then just positioned the “formula” as we label it in canvasser in-between the periods. I let Maddy know this so she would be aware of how I was going to edit my canvasser.
I had the opportunity to work on another illustration for the Life and Letters magazine. Below are parts of my process for how I came up with the illustration and the end product. Many images for inspiration and reference for color palettes come from the NY Times Opinion art on Instagram that I follow. The exception is the image on the right in the first row which is done by the artist Molly Mendoza. My idea for the composition was based around the mountains and objects floating in space that represent types of media to get news. The person directing me wanted the imagery to focus primarily on text and newsprint so I implemented typography and news spreads in the floating shapes.
Here are some of the first sketches I came up with for how the message of the article can best be conveyed. Two of the sketches are very different from the idea of mountains and floating objects as they were some of the first brainstorms. The rest of the sketches are refinements of the compositional layout for the idea we agreed upon. Some ideas that were brought up to consider was what the person would be doing on the side of the mountain. We did not want imagery of a person hiking or be obviously meditating in the landscape. The image should be of someone who is contemplating and analyzing in a meditative manner.
Here is the two color palettes I created for the client so they could decide what they wanted the overall look of the image to be. They decided upon the top one with more blue-green ranges and fewer pinks and yellows. The hope was using cool colors well help convey an overall mood of calmness compared to warmer colors of the second palette. From these options I would adjust the values of these colors to get more range in the illustration.
I am very pleased with the final product and I think the people who asked me to work on it were very happy with how it turned out. It is now published on the site and is displayed as the first image on the homepage, and the image after is my work from the Stress Tips article as well. Having the opportunity to work on illustrations that allow me to be more involved in the creative process as well as getting my work published is something that I find most rewarding about working here in the office. Hopefully in the future I can keep working on building a portfolio here through these projects.
