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Lorena Chiles

Lorena Chiles

Week 10

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GOV 336M Course Materials

Client /Prof: Rob Moser
Completion Status: Started on Nov 3
Staff Guidance: Suloni and Valerie, Maddy helped
Completed on: TBD

Last week I continued working on the GOV 336M: Government and Politics of Russia course materials. We ended up being on a deadline by the end of the week to get the lecture slides done, and Maddy stepped in to complete the slides where I left off.

Other than the lecture title slide and the main title slide, the other designs here are only drafts and have yet to have feedback on.

And then these are the backgrounds I created for lectures (the one with the person overlaid on it is just a reference model).

 

Week 9

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French Textbook Slides

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
Completed on: Nov 7

I worked on a vocab slideshow for the upcoming French Textbook project.

[UTCF] Greenscreen More Colors and Shopping

History of Design Training

Completion Status: Started on Oct 20
Staff Guidance: Valerie
To be completed: TBD

This is my second draft of my little graphic for the History of Design training. The full tutorial can be found here.

GOV 336M Course Graphics

Client /Prof: Rob Moser
Completion Status: Started on Nov 3
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Completed on: TBD

I started working on the course graphics for GOV 336M: Government and Politics of Russia, which will be used on its Canvas page and lecture segments.

This first image is a draft of the collage I made for various backgrounds, which I’m hoping to edit and make a more uniform color over:

This is a version of the Canvas buttons:

And this is the current iPad overlay:

Week 8

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GSD 360 Poster and Slide

Client /Prof: Professor Jana Weiss
completion status: Started on Oct 24
staff guidance: Valerie
To be completed: Finished Oct 27

This week I mainly focused on this GSD 360 project, where I designed an 8.5×11 poster and an intro slide for the GSD 360: Learning from the Germans? Transatlantic Memory Cultures class.

Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. It didn’t change too much visually since last week, but I played around more with calendar events and design this week.

UTFC French Textbook

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
To be completed: TBD

I just barely started looking at the UTFC French Textbook Project, working on the “More Colors and Shopping List” vocab slides. I didn’t get super far to warrant a picture, but I’ll be working on it more this week!

Week 7

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Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. Here is the calendar embedded again:

Alternatively, here is the link to the calendar on a more regular webpage view.

 

The above embedded might revert back to not being customized after the premium trial runs out in a few days, so further videos on what the calendar is meant to look like at this stage can be found here.

STA Trainings – History of Design

Completion Status: Started on Oct 20
Staff Guidance: Valerie
To be completed: TBD

I made a first draft of the history of design training, where I chose the Swiss style. I did this in Photoshop, and for the colors I used the “blending options” popup and edited the RGB settings. The full tutorial can be found here. 

 

….and then I also tried my hand at the STA blog banner, but I’m assuming we’re not meant to show progress on that to keep anonymity.

Week 6

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Christmas at Winedale poster

Completion status: started on Oct 3
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Valerie, Maddy
Client: Tricia Blakistone
Completed on: Oct 11

I officially finished this Christmas at Winedale poster project, here are the final two copies (as PDFs):

Windale_Poster_11x17

Winedale_poster_5x7

Remote Studio Poster/Logo

Completion status: started on September 20
STA team members: De’Sha and Leilani
To be completed: Oct 17

I’ve been working a lot on new drafts of the Remote Studios poster, here are some of my process shots:

On this first one, my goal was to make the STAs look like they’re coming out of a little video play button, but it was hard to tell that so I changed direction…

This one was a test of a new direction…

And then De’sha and I put our brains together and this is the newest version that we’ve settled on:

Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Started working on the faculty diversity calendar project, the goal being to have a more inclusive calendar for faculty and students to reference and be more aware of other cultural practices from their peers as well as how those things coincide with the academic schedule. This is a test mockup from Tockify that I’ve been working on. Please go to the monthly view and look at the July and December months (starting 2022) for the most cohesive experience.

Positives: Tockify does have a lot of customization aspects. Is fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The tags feature works really well and makes it easy to view academic or religious-specific calendars.

Negatives: I strongly dislike the pinboard and agenda views as they force repeating events through multiple years to show up on one calendar, but the monthly view is fairly nice. Is confusing at first, and there’s so many options it’s a little overwhelming.

Questions I’m still testing: Can the calendar ownership be transferred to another user?

Week 5

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Remote Studios Logo / Poster

Completion status: started on September 20
STA team members: De’Sha and Leilani
To be completed: TBD

I’ve been going through a lot of drafts for this project, here are a few unfinished mockups that I’m moving away from directionally. I got approval from De’Sha and Leilani to pursue the first design’s shapes around the people, so I’ll be playing more with that soon.

As another process shot, I also had a color palette change to orange. Looking at the logo, I went ahead and updated the hair style and things to not literally be a copy-paste of my own STA portrait for this version:

Then, moving away from that, I started exploring a much more simplified version:

And that’s where I’m at now!

Christmas at Winedale Poster

Completion status: started on Oct 3
Staff Guidance: Suloni, Valerie, Maddy
Client: Tricia Blakistone
To be completed: Oct 11 (basically completed by now though)

This poster is for the Christmas at Winedale event, which is (as the poster implies) an experiential Christmas event where you get to be more immersed in a 19th century atmosphere on the Winedale historical site. This version is the 11×17 inch one, and I also created a very similar 5×7 inch version.