This week I had my first two assignments! After finishing up with the Intro Training: Custom/Studio Course Graphics, I started on the graphic request for ANT 302 and GOV 310L. I also finished the Basic STA Skills training! Afterwards I’ll start on the Web Design training.

ANT 302 Stinger

Start: September 11, 2023

Completed: September 14, 2023

The course requested an additional stinger for an “In-Class Exercise” to which there wasn’t a custom stinger. I chose a stinger that the class didn’t use and created the stinger. I used the templated given and the same colors as the rest of them.

GOV 310L PPT + Buttons

Start: September 12, 2023

Completed:

The request consisted of 2 extra PPT slides for the section in the lecture “Who’s in that seat?” where a representation of Congress or a political chair was requested as the image. I created two designs and went with the one that included both a background image and an image on top. I wanted to keep the ongoing designs and color to make look cohesive, but at the same make it be differentiated

Afterwards I saved all the standard buttons for the course and added them to the UT BOX folder.

After getting some feedback from Anne and De’Sha on the direction of the slides, I hand-drew the chair in the same style as the first slide with the capitol. Along with the chair design, I also included the question mark “sitting” on the chair while increasing the font size of the title.

First rough drafts of the chair with the question mark.

Then, after getting feedback from De’Sha about the question mark, I created another one using vectors to make it look more smooth and place them in the PPT slide. I chose to go with a darker green for the background color per the client’s request to make it stand out and be different  the other slides. I additionally created the content slide along with the title slide.

After deciding to go with the vector question mark, I added the title as a one line title, but changed it to 2 lines and centered it to fill up more space efficiently.

When it came to the content slide, there were more iterations where the background color, header strip, or layout changed. At first the background was dark green with the chair logo at the upper right corner, which was then changed to the lighter, tan background with a dark green top bar. For the latest iteration, the chair in the background was mirrored and moved to the upper left corner followed by the segment title while increasing the width of the top dark green bar.

The majority of this week I focused on the training checklist, in particular the Custom/Studio Course Graphics and getting accustomed to the lab.

Custom/Studio Course Graphics

Start: August 30, 2023

Completed: September 11, 2023

During this training I was tasked with creating custom course graphics for a class of my choosing. I chose the Earth’s Dynamic Environment II class and designed the studio layout, canvas, and ppts. I started by brainstorming ideas and trying out different styles and narrowed it down to two: solid picture and a photo grid. I decided to go with the photo grid as I was able to implement the use of complementary colors (blue and orange) while using the color the professor likes, burnt orange. Along the way I edited the designs to make it cohesive and simple to not draw too much attention from the speaker but still convey an idea of what the course will be about.

Here are the first few iterations of the photos and arrangement I created at the beginning.

After adding space between the pictures and adding a dark orange hue I started creating the Desk, Vertical, and iPad Designs and finally tested it out with the studio templates.

I edited some of the layouts such as the Desk Skirt to make it darker and the more visible:

After finalizing all the designs, I created a Design Menu.

Hi Adriana! 🙂 Welcome to the STA Blog! This the page where your blog posts will published.

Toward the end of your STA Orientation, you’ll design and upload a banner to go at the top of this page.