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Megan Fletcher

Megan Fletcher

It’s Been a Week

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It’s Been a Week…

Phew! The week caught up with me. This week, I assigned out Poonum and I’s InDesign Part II training, got started with Angie on the new infographic training, uploaded a bunch of photo IDs, gave feedback on the new After Effects training, and (finally) got started on my Canvasser game. I’m making a matching game to learn Spanish personal pronouns with a cute crayon aesthetic.

The infographic training is shaping up to be great! We’re teaching basic graphs and vector graphics in Illustrator, then how to lay out information that’s not necessarily built for a graph, and then how to create a spread of multiple infographics that work together in harmony. Can’t wait to take it!

Starting Infographic Training

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Starting Infographic Training

*Some exciting news* Angie and I are collaborating on training STAs on infographic design and layout integration! Woo hoo! Infographics and data viz is my whole ~thing~, so I’m pumped. We’ll be teaching STAs how to make basic graphs and charts in Illustrator, then how to conceptualize information visually, and finally, how to put a lot of graphics together on a page or a magazine spread to look cohesive. If I had it my way they would also learn how to make cloropleth maps in Google Sheets or Flourish, but that might be a little too numbers-heavy.

Progress on Texas Politics Project template

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Making progress on Texas Politics Project template

Today, after applying some minor edits from Maddy, I started on the style guide. I just made a copy of the doc and added comments to it with guidelines like font, font size, and font weight. I also added guidelines for photo placement, just because Google Docs can be a little messy with a document with a lot of images and text.