German Trifold Edit

Project: German Trifold Edit

Client: German Program

Completion status: completed October 17th, 2019

STA guidance:  Jaclyn Alford

Description / plans: edit the current German Trifold

Last week I was assigned the task of editing the German Trifold. The trifold turned out looking like below.

This is the first time I’ve ever used InDesign, so it took me a while to get used to the ‘image placing’ functionality. I also had some difficulty choosing an image that fits the front, yet must not be blurry. But overall it was a fun project. Jaclyn helped me a ton on both InDesign and Photoshop (thank you Jaclyn 🙂 ), and I can’t wait to continue working on upcoming design projects with her.

VLab Last Looks

Project: VLab Last Looks

Client: Physical Anthropology online course

Completion status: started October 3rd, 2019

Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran

STA team members: Maddy Kaniewski, Olivia Wilczek, Abriella Corker

Description / plans: make final edits to Physical Anthropology VLab content

To be completed: by the end of November

I’ve been working on VLab, in which we migrate the content of the Physical Anthropology online course from Adobe Flash file to a website using Grav, a (not-my-favorite :p) CMS.

Some things I’ve been fixing including minor grammatical errors, spacing, indenting, or inserting missing content. I’ve also been working on combining the terminologies onto 1 card instead of spanning them into multiple cards.

One major thing (and probably one of the more exciting parts of the project) is to recreate the graphs in Photoshop. Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been working on (still in-progress).

 

Intro / Outro Prototype

Project: Butler Opera Documentary

Client: LAITS Studio

Completion status: started October 1st, 2019

Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran

STA team members: Abriella Corker

Description / plans: create an intro / outro, lower-third mockup, and rotoscope (tbd) for the Butler Opera Documentary video

To be completed: N/A

Here’s what I’m having right now for the Butler Opera Documentary intro / outro mock-up

progress 1

I’m super excited to work on this!

Training – Cascade Site Basic Training

Over the past few weeks I’ve been assigned a basic training to build my own site on Cascade. The instructions given by Abriella were very detailed, and although I ran into some difficulties publishing my site (which led to me accidentally republishing the entire STA site :p), I was able to figure it out in the end.

Here’s a short video on how my site looks.

Click to preview Thuy’s Cascade Site

Training – Color Wheel ‘Mistake’ :p

I continued with my Basic Training, and the description for creating a Color Wheel in Ai really captured me, so I decided to work on that.

For a little bit of context, I didn’t really have any formal training in traditional or digital art, so I misunderstood the purpose of the assignment. Instead of exploring color theories and all that good stuff, I thought the assignment was to explore how the basic colors blended together create new colors :p. So my product turned out to be something completely off. Oops.

Suloni kindly complimented on the product, and clarified the purpose of the assignment for me (thank you Suloni!). So I’d just need to do some research on color wheel and color theories. Afterwards, I’d check in with her on my findings.

BUT, Suloni thought that the process of how I came up with the choice of style for the artwork above is interesting, and so she assigned me that task of creating a new STA training on defining artistic elements as they relate to different styles (specifically the distinction between digitally-made art and also-digitally-made-but-has-a-more-human-feel art 🙂 ).

School Stress Tips – Illustration Test

Project: School Stress Tips – Illustration Test

Client/Prof: UT’s Office of Public Affairs

Completion status: started Aug 28th, 2019

Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson

STA team members: Valerie Tran

Description/plans: creating an illustration, drawing inspiration from The Thinker, for the client’s blog and magazine. The blog will focus on stress management tips from psychologist Jasper Smits.

To be completed: September 6th, 2019

Below are the two last drafts I made after some iterations and discussions with Suloni and Valerie.