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Nicholas Peasely

Nicholas Peasely

Fall 2025

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Summer 2025

Summer Marketing

Fall Digital Display

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v.2

v.3

  • Identical to last years
  • Scene is Book’em on UT Campus…
  • Went for a full park scene. (campus imagery isn’t the best for summer promotions)
  • Flag poles and road referencing speedway
  • Changed placement of text
  • URL has separate designated place

11 x 17 Posters (WIP)

Continuing the campaign, my next was to redesign the 11×17 posters that will be posted around campus. This visual has gone through a lot of iterations, changing imagery, color, text, and many visual components.

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FINAL POSTERS

Changes

  • Hard stop gradient background
  • Cleaned up photo: removed cup, background objects, and flyawayss

Overall I’m very happy with the poster! It was a struggle knowing what elements needed to be on the poster and in what order. I think this project really helped with my hierarchy skills and just developing as an intentional designer.

Fall A-Frames

Changes

  • Removed tagline bar at the top
  • Fixed spacing of words
  • Added “Future you will thank you!” to the computer screen. Adjusted the photo so the phrase is the focus.

Spring Digital Display

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For this project the objective was to mimic the visual elements of the 11×17 poster, but oriented for a TV screen.

Components

  • Photo
  • Visual motif that shows movement
  • Tag line and URL

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v.3

Finalish

  • Solidified 11×17 visuals
  • Thinner lines
  • Different photo options
  • Lighter background gradient

Summer 2025

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Summer 2025

Summer Marketing

First Day of Classes

Juneteenth

Freshmen Orientation

Transfer Orientation

HIS 315L

⋆｡°✩ Full course package

⋆｡°✩ Prof. wanted to show the continuities between the past and present

⋆｡°✩ Original course imagery –>

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v.2

Sepia, grid lines

Sepia, blurred transition

☆ B&W and color, grid lines ☆

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Fall Postcard

Initial Drafts

⋆｡°✩ Played around with the messaging, “my summer” vs “your summer”

⋆｡°✩ Explored different imagery (graduation, on campus, talking with friends)

Exploring Layouts & Taglines

⋆｡°✩ Collage allows for greater expression of summer (internships, staying on campus, traveling, etc.)

⋆｡°✩ The vertical column layout was a lot more balanced and easier to read

⋆｡°✩ Felt the original tagline didn’t align with our message and research. Needed to focus on the fact that students want to use summer to get ahead and complete course requirements

Final Tagline

⋆｡°✩ After settling on a tagline, we’re now focussing on which text should be the main tagline, our organization or message?

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