Today and a bit of yesterday I worked on hashing out the media breakpoints for the Virtual Labs UI. The menu posed some issues because it does take up a bit of space being that there are 12 labs. I managed to bring down the pixel width to 1330px before the menu has to be compressed into a collapsable hamburger menu by at 1700px reducing the combination mark logo down to just the pictorial mark logo.
I was tasked with updating the lockup for the Latino Research Institute on Cascade. In addition to uploading and publishing the new lockup, I had to make edits. Once I was done I made a post in the STA Knowledge Base detailing the process I went through to edit the lockup in Photoshop and upload it to Cascade.
A few friends of mine in design and I applied to the College of Fine Arts Career Service’s Professional Development Travel Initiative (PDTI). To apply you must submit an application including your personal bios, resumes, sponsors, confirmations, itinerary, and budget. In addition, you must layout how you would document your trip if chosen to be funded. My group decided on Baltimore and Washington D.C. because Baltimore has a really different and cool art scene and is in close proximity to a bigger city like Washington D.C.
We put together the application below and we were each awarded $700 to go on our trip this October! We already booked the flights and hotels and I am extremely excited to go on this trip and meet with some really amazing studios ( I linked some of their sites below).
I worked on creating a style guide for all the graphs needing to be made for Virtual Labs. As there wasn’t really any set standard for how graphs should look, there were multiple different style discontinuities that we noticed on the graphs being made. I made an in-depth style guide which I hope explains everything in enough detail that we will see the discontinuities clear up.
All the STAs were tasked with making a fun little 8Bit Animated GIF. This was really fun to do and was a nice break from all the Virtual Lab assignments. I decided to animate a girl jumping into the Austin Greenbelt. If I’m not at work this is probably where I have been this summer so I thought it was fitting. Here she is!
I was tasked with making an icon for the attendance function in UT Instapoll. As the icons are only 26px x 26px there wasn’t much room to make anything to intricate. It was challenging to try to make an icon that was understandable at such a small size but thats what is so impressive about iconography.
These were the two icons I created. The first is a simple icon of a person with a checkmark and the second is a raised hand. We went with the first one to be used which I ended up making a crisper version of. Below is what it will look like in use.
