Value Institute Brochure

This week, I primarily worked on the Value Institute Brochure. It’s beginning to come together as a print composition, which is exciting. I’ve met with Maddy over the last few days to iron out layout details. It’s been challenging to find ways to improve the existing brochure, since it’s already such a strong piece. I’ve also gotten to think about things I usually don’t think about when designing, such as paying minute attention to the cropping and positioning of photos. It’s definitely been a learning experience.

Another aspect of the brochure I’ve been working on is how to incorporate the colors for both Dell Medical School and McCombs School of Business without overcluttering the palette or losing the core UT identity. This has also been a challenge, trying to balance Dell Med blue with McCombs yellow with the quite overpowering burnt orange. Here are some examples of color work on the Admissions page.

 

STA Crest

In between working on the brochure, I’ve also made edits to the project team STA crest, going off of De’sha’s amazing feedback! I was doing a bit of research on heraldry for a personal project, so inspiration and visuals from that crept into my design. Now, the design has mostly been finalized, and I’m just working on the finetuning.

Value Institute Brochure

These past two weeks, the focus has mainly been on my assigned service center project, a brochure for the Value Institute at Dell Medical School. So far, I’ve imported all the copy and most of the photos, and I’m working on getting the layout straightened out. This project is a good refresher on publication design, my favorite area of design, so I’ve been enjoying setting type styles and utilizing grids and columns. Here are some spreads:

STA Crest

I’m responsible for designing the poster for the project team STAs. I’ve enjoyed learning more about what they do, and I’ve discovered that they are the ones keeping LAITS classes running for students, quite the important task. Here are a few drafts for the crest.

 

UTFC Greenscreen Slides

The past two weeks have been fairly slow, so I’ve mainly been working through greenscreen slides for UTFC modules. There’s a learning curve to figuring out which images fit best, portraying both the vocabulary noun/verb and the location highlighted in that particular module. Overall, it’s been fun work combing through images of different cities and finding ones that work well.

Module 5.1B – Pronominal Verbs

Module 5.2B – The City (in progress)

 

UTFC Graphics

Most of the work this week so far has been banners and backdrops for the French class. It’s become more of a streamlined process after doing it a few times, and every time I work on them, I pick up more skills and develop an eye so that less edits are needed. I finished two modules’ backdrops and one Lingco banner so far this week.

Backdrops

8.5 Victoria

8.3 Antananarivo

Lingco Banners

8.3 Antananarivo

Greenscreen Training

This week, I also began learning how to prepare the Powerpoint slides with French vocabulary.

 

That’s it for this week!

First week of school! This week has been a lot more toned-down now that most of the course graphics are done. I’m glad we were able to finish most of them by the start of the semester. I’m particularly proud of my work on NTR 306 Fundamentals of Nutrition, and I hope it gets put to good use this semester. I also learned about new software and skills over the course of these assignments. I feel a bit more confident about animating, but there’s still so much to learn. Lastly on course graphics, I wasn’t able to see my work in the studio, but here’s a photo of what the GOV 310L monitor looked like in-person. One of my favorite parts of being a designer is seeing the work in use, so this is really exciting!

 

This week, I’ve been mostly working on the backlog of French class graphics that have been assigned to me. Most recently, I’ve been working on backdrops, which is pretty fun work.

That’s my week so far! I’m excited to see what the semester will bring.