Last week was super busy in terms of the STA presentation !!! Overall, it was fantastic (apart from the technological difficulties the first 40 minutes..oopsies). It was wonderful to hear different STA’s stories during their time here at LAITS, and it motivated me to continue working hard. The graphics, audio, and video departments would not be able to exist on their own – all three are essential to making LAITS and the online courses at UT possible!!!

Here are some of the stuff I worked on for the presentation:

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Befeore  After 

Before  After 

And of course… I cannot leave out the Photo ID’s for the week:

Finally, some ppt reformatting:

I’ve also been working with my Medical Terminolgy professor, Dr. Todd Curtis, on a textbook he has written – he has asked me to draw 100 illustrations for his textbook by the end of the summer (outside office work as an STA). This was a perfect opportunity for me to build my portfolio, as well as have my name published, for I am pursuing a career path as a medical illustrator. Medical illustration pertains to drawing of the human anatomy and physiology in myriad of ways: for doctors, for lawyers, for scientific textbooks, for biomedical companies, etc. I’m not quite sure how set I am on becoming a medical illustrator, but I hope that this is a great stepping stone for my dreams I want to achieve!! These are some of the illustrations I’ve worked on so far:

 

 

I haven’t done a whole lot in the past few weeks – I mainly focused on the upcoming STA presentation (started my own keynote presentation), with few projects on the side.

The main illustration/ design project I was assigned was the Immigration Poster for the History department – my fellow STA Anna thought me the basics of Adobe Illustrator, and I transferred the traced image of a copyrighted photo to Adobe Photoshop, where I manipulated with the figures and also added in a barbed wire fence, as per Suloni’s request.

Original, copyrighted image:

Mid progress:

This is the final version – I made the fence more geometric and also replaced the dog with the old man, since this is a pretty serious setting:

I also worked on some of the LAITS staff members’ powerpoint presentations:

Myra’s before:

Myra’s after:

I also started on my keynote presentation for the upcoming STA presentation, which includes actually creating the keynote slides, as well as writing a script.

 

Ah yes, the photo ID processing that no one blogs about…

I also worked more on the Slavic presentation logo design for Mike & Dr. Rice!

This is the one Dr. Rice ended up choosing:

I worked on several different things the past week or two. First, like everyone, I worked on a ppt reformatting for the AFR303 class:

I’ve also worked on photo ID reorganization, a big project that Aidan and Andre have been working on.

And lastly, my main focus for the past week has been on designing a logo for Dr. Rice’s Slavic presentation. The first few rough drafts looked like this:

And then I got rid of the dark background and the text box:

Now working on final drafts… more updates to come!