Today I worked on making a universal design language for the content slides, using small figures with color gradients to accent the slides:

I also looked into different font types to establish a hierarchy into the slide. I ended up choosing Gautami.

 

I started my new assignment to redesign the UT Search Committee Workshop.

The original intro slide uses UT’s orange gradient with colonial columns as a background, which the client wants to replace with a picture of the Barbara Jordan Statue or of Barbara Jordan instead.

Here are some pictures that could be used as a background instead:

Since the client is open to the idea of a darker background with lighter font, I made some edits to the above pictures to bring out a cohesive look to the whole document and applied some gradients:

These are my favorite drafts with Isidora Sans Bold, the font that the client wants to use:

The client also wants to go away from UT’s orange bar at the top of the slides:

So that would go away as well, replaced by a darker background with an off-black tone. Maddy made a great suggestion of making some kind of shape that would align with the title and “pop” above the black and greyscale color scheme, so I’m going to look into that.

Today I worked on and finished my Cascade Site. I added content to the right navigation bar, embedding a video from Youtube, a button to more news, and color bars for internal and external pages. I also added unit_information content like Suloni’s picture, related links, social media links, map links to the California Academy of Science

 

I also added a Contact Us page:

Added the Magic folder and created the two new pages (abra cadabra):

Added Staff and Faculty info through the COLA Web Editor:

 

 

Today I finished my first set of drafts for the digital backdrops and uploaded them to Box.

Later on I started my Cascade basic training and creating my STA Practice website.

And used some images to add Events and News to it:

Today I continued to work on the studio backdrops using color overlays, gradient maps, and collage sets. Here are some examples: