This week

I don’t have a ton of visual things this week, unfortunately. Here’s what I was up to:

• STA evaluation
• Feedback on trainings
  • InDesign
  • Typography
  • Photo IDs
  • Web accessibility
• Meeting with Jacob and Brittany about RSCs
• Write-ups and edits of Chatter and RSC
• Got started on Advanced Motion Graphics training

The LRC people got back to me today, and they want some UT campus imagery on the second page to give a light sense of campus, seeing as this program is being advertised to international students. Here are a few images I’m playing with:

I also finished up my crochet blanket last week! Excuse the mess in the photo and the un-weaved in end, but it took me about a month to make (36×48 inches) and I’ll be donating it to the local chapter of Project Linus this week.

Brochure and Iconography Trainings

This week, I

• did the iconography training
• worked more on the brochure training
• applied edits to Chatter from Maddy
• sent off the draft of the LRC flyer to Todd and his team for feedback
• finalized the new version of the photo ID training
• gave feedback and help on web accessibility and InDesign trainings

 

LRC-visitingscholars-poster-v2

 

More LRC flyer, photo ID training, continued

This week, I continued to work on the LRC flyer’s expanded design, the new photo ID training, photo ID editing, and the brochure training. I was able to condense the three-page draft into two with Valerie’s help, and hopefully the client will like it. I also created the master Basecamp assignment for the new photo ID training. I also met with Maddy about edits from her and Mike to my Chatter write-up.

This last week (more LRC flyer)

I haven’t had a ton of shifts since I last posted, but I’ve mostly been working on the flyer design advertising the Visiting Scholars Program at the Linguistics Research Center and the photo ID KB.

The LRC provided the copy (words) for the flyer, and well, it’s a lot. Our current proposal is to make a packet, seeing as each page is the regular 8.5 x 11 inch paper (mostly digital).

Photo ID KB progress

The photo ID KB revisions are almost done! This last week, I added:

• Photo submission guidelines
• A few exceptions to photo submission rules
  • Faculty photos with medical masks
  • Naval Science cropping to show medals for 200×300 photos
• What do to with photos that don’t meet guidelines, but might be good for the body of a faculty member’s profile page
• A separate KB article for email templates regarding all things photo IDs

LRC Poster, Chatter interviews, KB edits, and more

This past week, I’ve been busy! Here’s a quick synopsis of what I did:

• Talked to Marla and Chris about Chatter
• Edited the photo ID KB article
• Created a new KB article for ID email templates
• Did the animated course graphics training
• Created a draft of a flyer advertising the visiting scholars program at the Linguistics Research Center

Animated course graphics training

I made this intro based on a course I designed a display for. I used brightness and glow effects in AE to simulate lightning, once I separated the foreground cloud and lightning bolts into separate layers in Photoshop.

 

LRC flyer draft

LRC-visitingscholars-poster

The LRC wants to advertise their visitings scholars program, using vague UT branding, an open color scheme, and possibly the banner image from its site. I used the banner image, GT Sectra, and I eyedropped the color scheme from the banner image.

 

 

Weekly updates

I took Monday off this week for a medical appointment at a weird time. Here’s what I worked on this week and last week! I also was able to schedule a meeting with Marla to discuss Chatter numbers and whatnot for the PR project. I plan on talking with Chris Pittman next, and hopefully Matthew nails down the faculty presentation soon.

Photo ID Guidelines

Ingrid, Angie, Abriella and I have all been working to update the photo ID aesthetic guidelines and training. Last week, we finished the aesthetic edits slide deck, and this week, we chose photos — categorized into easy, medium and hard — for new STAs to practice on. Here are examples:

 

Here are a couple of slides from the slide deck. I actually learned about the selective color tool from Cristina — changed my life. I also tried to emphasize in the slide deck that most photos will need more than one type of edit, and some edits require others after (like cool color balance –> vibrance)

 

 

Color grading training

This was super fun! Thanks to Sheryl for making it! For ~fall vibes~ I chose to match colors to Wes Anderson’s adaptation of “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” incidentally one of my favorite movies.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/41864-2/