My Second Blog Post!

With the second week behind me and some trainings under my belt, I am feeling more and more like a bonafide STA every day. This past week, I worked on some fun personal graphics including the banner you see above depicting my artistic license and a little self portrait that will be used in a poster assembling all the STAs. Apparently it looks more like my roommate than myself, but that’s okay. It’s the thought that counts.

A drawing of Princeton in an astronaut suit, holding a pen and pad. — I figured whoever designing the poster doesn’t need to put me on the ground if I made myself an astronaut. The sky’s not the limit!

After those projects, I moved on to training myself on creating Course graphics in three different styles. These were interesting to work on — I was able to learn some process and the unique quirks that came with it. I found some areas of potential improvement, which I hope to implement in order to streamline the training process and remove some friction. A sample of graphics I created for these trainings can be seen below.

An animated title card that says "20th Century Art" which cycles through various font styles. — Rough sketch of an animated title card that would play before each online lecture.

A menu showing custom designs for a fictional training course: "20th Century Art" — It was enjoyable to put together the graphics for a fictional art course.

A vertical poster showing three women -- abstracted into pure geometry -- and a banner in front of them with the course description on it: "ART3800, Twentieth Century Art". — The vertical monitor graphic for the studio setup.

The second week has helped me get into a groove of working and training. I look forward to completing my training and starting to work on impactful client work!