Week 16

2023 STA Hiring Poster

Project: STA Hiring Poster
Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion status: TBD
Staff guidance: Maddy
Description/plans: On Feb 14, LAITS is having a ‘job fair’ in RLP as part of CoLA’s “Liberal Arts Week”.  This is to advertise the various student positions we have available in the department. My task was to make a 1-page flyer that can be handed out at the job fair (could also be potentially used at future events).

 

I had some very useful design guidance from Maddy during this process. My first draft was mainly setting up the general layout that Mike suggested. Afterward, Maddy helped me with inserting the LAITS colors and text formatting. It was very informative to hear and see some of the design methods that Maddy uses.

 

 

February 9, 2023

Progress made after meeting with Valerie:

• call to actions
• discussed having rounder shapes
• separating the departments and cleaning up the text
• making it less ‘web-site-y’

           

FINAL POSTER BY VALERIE:

First STA Meeting of Spring ’23

Our first meeting of Spring ’23 was much smaller than Fall’s :,) But it was nice to hear and see what everyone has been up to since Winter Break (feels like so long ago)! It’s always cool to see the graphics everyone has been making, especially if I’ve seen them around campus. I do miss the big meetings, but the smaller one was chill and intimate.

 

Week 15

NTR 306 Instapoll Stinger

Project: NTR 306 Instapoll stinger
Client /Prof: Hockett-Cooper, Leidy
Completion status: January 30, 2023
Staff guidance: Julie Phillips & Maddy
Description/plans: Creating a new Instapoll stinger for NTR 306 that incorporates the color and text associated with the class.

 

 

UTFC Green Screen 8.1B (Meat, Seafood, & Dairy)

Project: UTFC Green Screen 8.1B
Completion status: February 2, 2023
Staff guidance: Yazz
Description/plans: I just had to make a few edits that Yazz gave after the winter break (deleting/changing out photos). We ended up having a freeze, so Yazz added the final edits and submitted it for approval.

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**We had a freeze the rest of the week so not much other work was done:(

Week 14

STA Presentation Poster

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

This week I mostly worked on banner iterations. Last week I did a couple of drafts of what the art style could look like — pulling inspiration from Juno and Leilani’s Pinterest board.

Also added STA names of each studio to Leilani’s draft.

notes from Maddie: add crosshatching for shading & change event date/time

  

Edits after notes:

  

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