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Lorena Chiles

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Lorena is Leaving! [ NOT CLICKBAIT ]

May 31, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

Lorena is Leaving! [ NOT CLICKBAIT ]

 

Remember last year when I posted on my blog that I wasn’t sure if I was returning as an STA and then I crawled back onto the team that Fall? Well, this time I’m officially not returning… because I graduated! After 4 years of college I’ve claimed my Radio-Television-Film degree and Digital Arts and Media certificate from UT. I’m extraordinarily grateful to the STA program and I feel so much more prepared for whatever life will throw at me. Through my 2 1/2 years as an STA I’ve grown more adept at communication, confidence, leadership, time management, organization, and of course the many programs available from Adobe. Thank you so much to the whole current Design team, including De’sha, Leilani, Thang, Adriana, Lila, Carrie, Marissa, Diya, Raaga, Shriya, and Kyra, and also to my past STAs and managers!

 

Why is this post so delayed in my posting it, you ask? Well, I have some good news! As of late April 2024 I’ve been one of the Summer Film Camp Directors at Austin Film Festival. It’s been exciting so far to see things coming along, and our camps start in early June so we’re fast approaching our start date! I’ve been conducting registration audits, finding food donations/sponsors, communicating with parents, hiring instructors/interns, and everything that you can think of in between. 

 

Now as my time as a Design STA comes to a close, I once again will share my LinkedIn page (www.linkedin.com/in/lorena-chiles) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lorenachiles/) for all the Lorena fans out there. Thank you guys for following my journey, bye for now!

 

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, We are STAs

April Updates

April 25, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

Wow it’s been awhile since I posted! Here are the projects I’ve worked on since March 20:

STA Presentation PPT Template

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Mar 21
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Completed on: April 1

I worked on the presentation templates for the 2024 STA Presentation!

My hours per week are shorter than other STAs, so Leilani stepped in to finalize the template (below is what it looks like with my information):

My own STA Presentation!!

Client/Prof: LAITS
Staff Guidance: De’sha & Mike

This year I was chosen to present at the 2024 STA Presentation event! At this event STAs, staff, and alum came together to talk about the program and what we’ve done. I was super excited to be a part of it!

Here is the recording of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMASUoQOcHs

Texas German Retractable Banner #11

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Feb 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

I’ve been working on so many other projects I had to delay this one! This is the final draft of TGDP Banner #11:

Back to my Background Design Training

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Oct 25
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Completed on: TBA

It’s been so long since I’ve had the chance to work on this!! As a reminder, I am creating a tutorial for future STAs to learn more about Adobe Illustrator and how to create a background in the program. I really want to finish it before I graduate. Recently I just finished a draft 1 of the tutorial and it’s now gotten feedback from Leilani, so I’ll be incorporating that. But while I work on that here’s my cute tutorial header:

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, We are STAs

Week 9

March 20, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Completed on: March 20

Since my last post we totally changed our approach to this project. We wanted to take a more physical-object post, so eventually a drawstring backpack with STA buttons at a carnival was chosen.

 

And that’s a wrap on the 2024 STA roster poster!

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Spring 2024 Week 7

February 28, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha

I started working on this new version, the goal being to have the STAs more as the center piece rather than other objects:

Then we changed direction entirely! The new idea is to make STAs look like they’re on pins/stickers from a carnival/event. Here is what I’ve been working on so far:

Texas German Retractable Banner #11

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Feb 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

First draft done!

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, We are STAs

Spring 2024 Week 6

February 21, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Last week I was going back and forth on how to proceed, which yielded this pretty crazy draft:

And then De’sha put forward this idea, which is meant to feel more cohesive:

So I’ll be working more on that in the days coming up!

Texas German Retractable Banner #11

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Feb 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Started on a new TGDP banner! This one is about Texas Germans and the Inter-War Period. Below is the first draft I finished, and in the next drafts I hope to edit things to look more balanced (especially at the last section).

STA Blog Banner Updates!!

Completion Status: Started on Feb 15
Completed on: Feb 20

Updated our blog banner with caricatures from our new STAs, Raaga, Diya, and Shriya!

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Uncategorized

Spring 2024 Week 5

February 14, 2024 By Lorena Chiles

STA Roster Poster Spring 2024

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Jan 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha

This week I’ve been working on color scheme edits to the poster! We went with this idea:

And I’m starting to update the colors and placeholder vectors, which has me at this stage that I’m still working on:

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, We are STAs

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