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Thuy H Nguyen

Thuy H Nguyen

AI Logo Training

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Training – AI Logo

I’ve had the chance to polish up my Illustrator skills with this basic training in creating a logo. Since it is a practice only, we can basically do anything for our logo (which, surprisingly, turns out to be a bit tough, especially in finding inspirations :p because I tend to take forever to come up with ideas). But anyway, I decided to go with the Koinobori theme.

Koinobori are carp streamers in shapes of fish to celebrate Kodomo no Hi (Children’s Day) in Japan. I am by no mean an expert in the history of this holiday nor the nature of the holiday itself, but I’ve been exposed to it previously and I thought it’d be cool to explore creating logos with this special pattern.

So these are what I came up with for the B&W draft.

And the colored versions.

My Caricature

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My Caricature

Last week I worked on my caricature, which is a part of our STA Orientation activities.

I’m planning to explore adding some more details and brush strokes whenever I have time between my projects, so stay tuned for some updates (maybe)!

STA Orientation

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Hi,

 

Today is my first day as a STA as well as the STA Orientation day. These are the things that we’ve gone through so far.

Learned how to clock-in/out

Completed our I-9 paperwork

Introduced ourselves to the team (everyone is very nice and willing to help 🙂 )

Read out loud the STA Handbook and had any of our questions addressed

Had Basecamp, Workday, Slack, and Harvest set up

Updating our Basecamp avatar (mine’s a corgi)

Illustrate 5 points from the STA Handbook to a PowerPoint slides deck

Making this blog post

 

Things that I will be working on after completing this blog post.

Design my STA blog banner

Go through some STA basic training

 

I’ve been wanting to get more hands-on on design, so I’m super excited to see how I can grow as an STA. In addition, I’m certain that with the help from the wonderful and friendly STA team (which each of them having a unique set of skills and assets), I will be able to learn tremendously (technically and as a person 🙂 ). I’m sure there will be obstacles and times that I will be frustrated over projects or my abilities, but in the end they’ll all be challenges to extend my capacity.

 

I wanted to give a big thank you to Suloni and the Design STA team for giving me a wonderful introductory experience so far!

 

Thank you for reading and please follow my STA journey through this blog if you’d like :). Cheers!

Thuy Nguyen 2019-2020 Orientation

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Hi Thuy!

During the later part of your STA Orientation Aug. 20, 2019
you’ll design and upload your STA Blog banner to the STA blog.

FIRST STEP

Photoshop
Design and make your banner

a. Use the photoshop specs for your blog banner that i placed in your STA volume folder

b. Save your unmerged files back to your STA volume folder

SECOND STEP

Log-in to the STA word press blog:

Publishing Help Documentation/Instructions
Read this WP sites “Publishing Help” before you upload your banner.
STA publishing help:
Blog post
Reflect on the day. You blog posts will be a written experience with images, of your time as an STA with LAITS.
Write a bit about your about your-self, & what you did during orientation & upload your banner.
Image specs.
Do not merely copy paste images in to your blog. Always upload images into the “Media” section of blog first, and then set the image from the media folder to display on your blog.
Don’t use the thumbnail version of your images.
Use images that are 72 dpi
Screen shots are fine
Images that are 780 pix wide format nicely above or below text blocks
Always  use Categories for all of your posts
Check the “2019 Fall, Winter – Spring, Summer 2020” Category box for all the blog posts you make this semester and next semester so that all of your work is documented in the correct semesters.

Comment on Basecamp

Notification comments: etiquette, files, questions, feedback

Let us know you’ve completed this task.
Do this by uploading a link from your blog, to a comment on basecamp, and for your basecamp comments in general:
  • *Always address the person(s) you are writing to by their names.
  • *Always use complete sentences.
  • *Always add links or paths to your design file residing in your STA folder
  • *and a courtesy to your collaborators and mentors, add a screen shot to your comment, of the file you are asking for feedback on.
Use “@”name of STA mentor
and   “@”Suloni
on your bascamp comment:
  • to ask us questions you may have about the mechanics of using the STA blog,
  • about the mechanics of photoshop,
  • to let us know that you have completed this task,
  • that you would like a little feedback on on your banner design 🙂

Thank you & have fun!