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Week 5

September 28, 2023 By Lorena Chiles

Texas German Retractable Banner #10

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Sept 21
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Started on a new banner! Here is what I have so far:

TGDP Banner Exports (PNGs and JPGs)

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Sept 21
Staff Guidance: De’sha

This week I also worked on exporting past banners as JPGs and PNGs so that the files would able to be displayed on websites. It was at first a challenge because the folders were challenging to navigate and some asset files were missing which made it impossible to link things in InDesign and make the quality go up. Luckily De’Sha found a way to export as JPGs and PNGs from the PDF files, so I started working with that workflow after a certain point.

Logo Design Training

Completion Status: Started on Sept 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Started working on the logo design training! The goal is to make a personal logo, ideally one for me that matches my website. I’m not sure I like the way it’s going, but here’s some different versions of what I have so far:

 

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Uncategorized

Design Services Brochure Training

September 26, 2023 By Princeton Tran

Design Services Brochure

Last week, I worked on creating a brochure with the goal of making a piece of eye-catching print media. My first design was clean and minimal, but not very dynamic. This week, with some feedback from De’sha, I was able to push the movement in my brochure and tweak the user experience so that the flow of information was better. The end result is a more logical brochure with greater visual appeal and flair without sacrificing usability. Finally, I made some edits to incorporate the collage into the rest of the brochure instead of as a separate page and tweaked the color scheme to better match LAITS branding sensibilities.

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

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Fun with Shapes

September 20, 2023 By Princeton Tran

Basic Training: Shape and Pattern

In this training, I reviewed the principles of shape and how to create patterns in illustrator. As a final exercise, I practiced creating hierarchy through the use of shape, relying minimally on typography and color.

 

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Week 4

September 20, 2023 By Lorena Chiles

Texas German Retractable Banner #9

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on August 24
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Making lots of progress on this! I think we’re nearing the final draft.

Filed Under: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Uncategorized

Custom Course Training Complete

September 20, 2023 By Princeton Tran

Custom Course Training Complete!

I’m proud to announce that my training for Custom Course Graphics has wrapped! After many rounds of iteration to make it just right, the graphics for the fictional Twentieth Century Art course are now perfected. Please take a look below at the finished graphics.

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9/11 – 9/15 Weekly Post

September 19, 2023 By Princeton Tran

09/11 - 09/15

Humming Along

This week at work, I made incremental changes to my Custom Course Graphics. In the meantime, I began work on some other trainings. As the projects begin to take on their own blog posts, you’ll see less of them in these weekly updates. The last time I studied the Elements and Principles of Art (or Design) was in high school, so re-learning them for this training was a walk down memory lane. I have changed a lot since I last studied them — after all, it has been three years of design schooling at UT for me! I also had a good time creating my own color wheel to illustrate what I learned about Color Theory in Basic Training. Taking inspiration from Jony Ive’s Terra/Astra Carta seals, I created a tongue-in-cheek latin color wheel.

 

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