Project: GOV 312 – Backdrop & PPT template
Completion status: Completed 11/18
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Spent many hours attempting to remove the sky out of the image of the capitol to use in a backdrop. Finally got it figured out with Suloni’s help!

Original photo:

The final image:

Made a tutorial:

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Powerpoint background:

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Project: TxP-Redesign – CSS & HTML home page
Completion status: In progress 11/18
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Ryan, Josh
Description/plans: More progress on coding the home page bottom nav!

Got everything to appear as it should. Next step is to convert px to em.

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Project: TxP-Redesign – More Wireframes
Completion status: In progress 11/22
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Ryan, Josh
Description/plans: Working on a few more wireframes for the TxP website

Education page:

Blog page:

Project: Thomas L. Pangle
Completion status: In Progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Andre, Ryan
Description/plans:Update Dr. Pangle’s site from webspace -> wordpress.

So… I was looking into Dr. Pangle’s work..and he’s known as an “American Political Scientist” (via Wikipedia article). So I thought it would be fun to play off of that by incorporating American/political imagery + scientist imagery and came up with this banner:

Really been wanting to practice with freehand lettering, so decided to play with his name:

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Project: Texas Politics
Completion status: In Progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Lauren
Description/plans: Still working on TxPolitics branding and wireframing!

New events page color:

New “research” page color:

Polling search results page:

10/24 Approved bugs (orange and white):

10/22 Approved title card:

Title cards:

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Project: edX: 20th century Art Detectives
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Completed the spreadsheet for artwork found in edX ppts.

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Project: Texas Govt
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Lauren
Description/plans: Reformatted powerpoints to widescreen, black and white, fonts, background.

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Other stuff:

I’ve been struggling with some of my screen printing concepts… so I’ve been into looking for some illustration inspiration. These have the quality of a screen print, although are illustrated and colored via computer.

http://lukebrookesillustration.co.uk/

http://yutaonoda.com/

Project: Texas Politics
Completion status: In Progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Lauren
Description/plans: Still working on mock ups for the TxPP redesign. So far have tentative approval on the Texas logo (based off a centers logo). More mockups of the polling & events page as well as a new home page. Also working on branding (backdrop, video title card, bug).

Branding:

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Project: Health & Society
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Andre
Description/plans: Coded the Cascade site for H&S with new ribbon logo.

View the site

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Project: CC302: Image clean up
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Cleaned up images that were to be used in the CC302 Sizzler video.

Example of work done:

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Project: edX: Statistics
Completion status: In Progress 10/10/13
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Daniel
Description/plans: Created icons to match statistics. Icons & stats will be made into transparent png and will be used in a video for edX Statistics.

Example of video overlay:

Icons made:

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Project: edX 20th Cent – Art Detectives
Completion status: In Progress 10/10/13
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Going through powerpoints, taking screen shots of the photos/artworks and google image searching for the artist, title, date.

Project: Dr. Pangle’s Webspace Updates
Completion status: In progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Andre
Description/plans: Dr. Thomas Pangle came in and asked to have his website updated with new books, updated CV, and other minor edits to his webspace. I fixed broken images, links, and text. I am in the process of creating a mock up for a wordpress site for Dr. Pangle (as webspace will soon be deleted).

Webspace link:https://webspace.utexas.edu/tlp374/www/index.html
Dev link: http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/devsta/pangle/index.html

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Project: Texas Politics
Completion status: In Progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Lauren
Description/plans: Still working on mock ups for the TxPP redesign. So far have tentative approval on the Texas logo (based off a centers logo). Working on mockups for the Polling and Events wireframes.

Here’s an updated home page:
– Texas logo
– Colors rearranged and dark blue changed to light gray

Polling WIP:

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Project: Health & Society
Completion status: In Progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Lauren
Description/plans: Updated the Health and society logo without the caduceus.

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Project: COLA ID Color Corrections
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Color correct photos and size them into ID’s.

Project: Texas Politics Redesign
Completion status: In progress 8/19
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Help redesign the Texas Politics website.

Update 9/5:

Changed “intern” -> “internships”. Event icon to calendar. Left aligned text, right aligned icons. Added news with title/sub.

with official UT wordmark:

Update 9/4:

Manipulated the logo with photoshop to angle it:

Note that a lot of the logo would change if angled forward since the perspective will then be viewing from the top of dome, rather than looking up.

original logo with more detail on edge:

2 new home page mock-ups with changes:

Update 9/3:

Another draft of logo focusing in on dome.

Update 8/29:

Website mock-up based off of notevenpast.org’s layout.

Starting with the logo…!

Update 8/28:

Silhouette of capitol with and without window detailing.

Different layouts with full title:

Based off of:

I’m not a big fan of the inner dome view.. too much going on? Also doesn’t size down too well.

Small:

Based off:

Here’s the black and white version:

Small:

Update:

Here’s WIP inspired from an architectural drawing of the Capitol’s exterior/interior.

Logo is based off of this image: