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Nicholas Peasely

Nicholas Peasely

2025 STA Presentation

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2025 STA Presentation

STA Photo Cut Outs

Made photo cut outs for all new STAs! Like myself ฅ^•⩊•^ ฅ

Lower-Thirds Graphic

For this next project I was tasked with designing a Lower Thirds graphic for the STA presentation.

Considerations

⋆｡°✩ Keep the design simple and subtle, ensuring it does not distract from the video content.

⋆｡°✩ Use LAITS colors or colors from pre-existing graphics for the STA Presentation

⋆｡°✩ Find a graphic and font fitting for the theme: Movies, specifically drawing inspo from the The Peanuts Movie poster

Early Versions

After landing on the idea of a film roll, I started mocking up different versions. Playing with:

• Color

• Logo

• Canister Style

• Film Style

After evaluation, we decided to move forward with the last iteration!

Final Version

STA Presentation Webpage

My next project was to design the STA Presentation webpage!

December Projects ❆

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December Projects ❆

Studio Course Graphics

This training walked me through the process of designing and curating my own graphics for a studio setting!

My vision…

⇢ Utilize the Museum that the students get to visit during the class

⇢ Incorporate the art style that is being studied in the class

⇢ Make the graphic monochromic

It took a few iterations to get to this point, but that’s part of the process! Originally I was pretty lost when creating this piece because I felt like every version looked really busy, especially for a backdrop. I then decided to tone it down and make the design a little more simpler!

My Steps ˚⋆｡˚

✧ Make the base layer a dark blue color

✧ Found a high-quality photo of the museum interior and desaturated it

✧ Played around with the blending modes for visual interest

✧ For more depth, I decided to duplicate the museum layer, change the blending mode & opacity, and finally offset the layer from the original

Health and Society 301 Course Graphics

Summer Courses Instagram PFP

Final Version:

Notes

  • Had to Incorporate UT branding and “Summer Online”

  • Debated whether or not UT crest should be included

  • Tested out different color variations for a “summer feel”

Drafts:

Orientation ✧.*

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° Hellooo, I’m Nicholas Peasley : ̗̀➛ a new Design STA. I’m currently a 2nd year Advertising major from Fort Worth, TX. I’m very interested in UX and hope to be a product designer in the future ✧˖°

Some of my interests include ⇢

✧ taekwondo

✧ cooking

✧ point and shoot photography ˚⋆｡˚

° Today was my first day in the design studio! It was really cool seeing all the different tools and applications the STAs use on a regular basis. I’m very excited to start this new part of my design journeyᵎᵎ I’m hoping to learn a lot, and hopefully make a few friends along the way! ₊˚⊹♡

– Nicholas Peasley ฅ^._.^ฅ