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End of October Projects: Week of Halloween

October 30, 2026 By Kodi Khiraoui

This week, I had a lot of time to work on the 2027 poster presentation as I waited for feedback on the course logo design. I’ve just about finished up designing the assets and begun adding in colors. Illustrator has a handy tool where I can quickly and easily recolor my artwork, so thankfully it has been a relatively quick process. The current colors are subject to change as I make adjustments to make the screens look more realistic and “screen-like”.


Initial design, before adding color and making minor edits

Added colors, minor edits


Next, I’ll be finishing up the colors and adding in some photos to see how the scaling looks to make sure the STAs aren’t too small.

After a meeting discussing future plans, we’re coming up on the final designs for the course logo for the class Agentic Software Engineering. The designs below are the most recent designs I created after receiving feedback. We went back to one of my earlier logo concepts to focus on spacing out the symbols, adding punctuation and redesigning them to look more cohesive.



Both are relatively the same. The top image has symbols that I felt are very similar in design, while the bottom image includes simplified versions of the English alphabet.

That’s all I have for this week. Thank you for reading and I hope you have a spooky Halloween.

Filed Under: Fall 2026 – Spring 2027

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