Week 13

STA Presentation Poster

Client /Prof: LAITS
Started: January 17th, 2023
Staff/STA guidance: Maddy & Leilani

 

Tuesday – started helping out Leilani with the STA Presentation Poster by compiling some color palette inspo. I was trying to follow the colors within our references of vintage sports aesthetic and a 2000s Juno vibe. There are a lot of muted tones, as well as pops of color. There is also a nice range of warm AND cool tones.

Wednesday – I started experimenting with the colors and text on the poster. I learned some neat ways to select certain elements in Procreate (after much frustration and going about it the hard way:,)

 

Color palette inspo:

         

Scrap paper colors:

 

 

Week 12

CH 320M Organic Chemistry II

Project: Intro animation and iPad overlay for Dr. Iverson’s O Chem II class
Client /Prof: Dr. Iverson
Completion status: Started January 10, 2023
Staff guidance: Julie Phillips & Maddy
Description/plans: Edit the Organic Chemistry intro animation for O Chem II and Dr. Iverson. In addition, create an iPad overlay for O Chem II.
To be completed: January 12, 2023

Intro Animation

The challenge with the intro animation was some of the original editable files weren’t uploaded to the box folder. I had to make do with the parts we had (which were most of them) to create an intro similar to the original mp4. Julie and Maddy were very helpful in answering my questions throughout the project. Most of the process was just reuploading images from the box folder into Adobe After Effects and then editing it down to closely match the original.

 

 

iPad Overlay

The original iPad overlay had the lionfish image cropped and blurred with filled text boxes. Maddy suggested fading back the image (and provided an example) and removing the colored text boxes. I think this made the overlay look more modern without distracting from whatever information will be posted onto it. Fading back the image also made it more ornamental to the overall overlay:)

 

     

   

Week 11

[UTCF] Greenscreen 8.1B Meat, Seafood, and Dairy

Completion status: Started Nov 14, 2022
Staff guidance: Yazz Fawaz
Description/plans: STA is to find images for each word in the list and create a PowerPoint with accompanying french text on the slide.
To be completed: Nov 15, 2022

 

Making this PPT was actually very enjoyable because it included new vocab I learned just last week in my French class (FR 406)! Many of these words were familiar which aided me in finding the appropriate images for each slide. I imagine these PPTs are shown to the in-person French courses since I don’t see these and my class is web-based. Also, since most of the vocab was everyday food items, there were many options of photos to choose from (in contrast to 7.1B Fashion where the vocab was very culturally/geographically specific). I really like communicating with Yazz about which images accurately represent the word’s meaning. it’s almost like a mini-review session for French.

 

 

Basic Training: Learning the Principles and Elements of Design

This training was a flashback to all of the elements and principles lessons I’ve had over the years in my art classes. It was fun to be able to source images that I thought illustrated each element/principle. Oftentimes, multiple elements are at work to create an image, not just one. For instance, color can be used to emphasize objects, and lines can create movement, etc. Since all of the art itself was pretty colorful, I kept the PPT text and background color fairly simple and neutral.

 

PSY 306 Course Graphics

Completion status: Started Nov 29, 2022
Staff guidance: Maddy
Description/plans: Recolor the “Quiz” stinger to purple, and swap out the text for “Bonus Question”. Originally we wanted a lighter purple, but the legibility of it against the white was not very compatible.
To be completed: Nov 29, 2022

Week 10

Project:  BEYOND SWEATT V. PAINTER
Client: Olivia Mena
Started: Nov 7, 2022
Staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Leilani, Carrie, and De’sha

Description/plans: Researcher, Olivia Mena, needed our help with data visualization/ presentation design for a PPT: History of Race, Science, and Segregation at the University of Texas
Completed: Nov 11, 2022

 

 

This firstly involved choosing an overall color palette/scheme. Then we reorganized/composed pictures with their respective paired bodies of text in a more visually pleasing manner. Most of the pictures were provided by Oliva in the draft PPT, but some pictures had to be sourced or edited to match the aesthetics/dimensions of the presentation. There was a combination of historical documents, photographs, and text that needed to be cropped and blocked on each slide into a cohesive narrative for Olivia to present.

 

From what I was told about the presentation from Maddy, (I wasn’t able to attend the meeting with Olivia herself) it sounded very interesting! I always like to hear more about the history of UT, especially if it is clearing up misinformation about the history of our school:)

 

Election Videos

Not much was going on this week besides working on the Olivia Mena PPT, but Mike sent out these finalized videos for the Election Day PSAs Maddy and I worked on. So cool to see how our work crosses over with the Audio team!

 

 

Week 9

Project: Election Voting PSA Graphic
staff guidance: Maddy
description/plans:  I was asked to revisit the Election Voting PSA by creating a new illustration, or even adding a new color variant, to help catch the students’ attention, considering they have seen the same PSAs in the weeks leading up to early voting.

Graphic 1:

Final Graphics completed by Maddy:

Week 8

 

PSY Labs Site: Imagination & Cognition Lab Banner Design

Client /Prof: Dr. Jacqueline D. Woolley
completion status: Started Oct 19, 2022
staff guidance: Valerie
description/plans: Create/design a new banner that will be placed on Dr. Woolley’s new website. She wants something related back to her research, yet whimsical and colorful.
To be completed: Oct 31, 2022

 

• Ashley (our point of contact with the client) asked for the number 1, exclamation point, and cat to be changed to symbols of a unicorn head, light bulb, and beaker ( or another science-related symbol). These symbols, coupled with the pre-existing ones, perfectly represent the concepts that the lab researches.

before edits:

after edits:

banner uploaded to the website:

 

UTFC – Green Screen: 7.1B Fashion

completion status: Started Oct 24, 2022
staff guidance: Yazz Fawaz
description/plans: STA is to find images for each word in the list and create a PowerPoint with accompanying french text on the slide.
To be completed: Oct 27, 2022