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Week 9

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Texas German Retractable Banner #10

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

Another draft of the TGDP banner; I rearranged some of the text formatting/sections and sent in for client feedback.

Logo Training

Completion Status: Started on September 20
Finished on: Oct 19
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Finished up the logo/branding training, here is the mockup of a product webpage for items with my logo:

Icon Training

Completion Status: Started on October 11
Finished on: Oct 19
Staff Guidance: De’sha

Made a small edit to my video icon by making the play button smaller, these are my final designs for this training:

Week 8

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Texas German Retractable Banner #10

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

Finished up a new draft of the banner:

Icon Training

Completion Status: Started on October 11 (?)
Staff Guidance: De’sha

I worked to design icons with the McCombs school of business in mind as the style, here’s what I came up with:

Logo Training

Completion Status: Started on September 20

I’ve been working more on my logo design training and decided to take a step back and figure out ways to make it a single color while incorporating my original font and ideas. I feel like in these the contrast between the L and the C isn’t quite enough so it starts looking like an LE or some kind of indistinguishable text, but I think I like this direction a little better.

Week 8 10/9 – 10/13

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A lot of UTFC work, but some other fun things too!

UTFC

I’m pretty much on the final steps of completing the UTFC 9.3 module. I uploaded all the approved images to box, updated them in the provided powerpoint, and now it’s off  to be reviewed.

While it wasn’t a project that requires any artistic outlook or creativity, it was a very simple and somewhat relaxing project to work on. I’m also glad that now that I have experience with the image finding portion of it, I can be helpful with more tasks involved with it in the future.

New Training Unit: Design History

While I didn’t complete this training this week, I learned more about where design elements come from and trends in design through history. For the training, we have to emulate our favorite design trend in history. I’m doing 2 as I like the Dada collages a lot but need more practice in Illustrator.

I’ll be able to show off those projects next week!

Week 8 (10/9 – 10/13)

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Fall 2023 GRG Flyer Promo

Start: October 9, 2023

Completed: October 23, 2023

Description: I had to design a digital flyer promotion for the Department of Geography & the Environment. They wanted to advertise some of the courses they offer and display this promotional graphics on campus. My first iteration, I tried out some new designs and colors. I decided to place the venn diagram at the center of the three different images, each depicting the word inside.

Afterwards, a tried out a new design that changed the colors and organization of the information. I tried out two color for the lines separating the images, black and white. Afterward I recreated the icons for the venn diagram in illustrator to match the ones provided in the files since I couldn’t find them online.

After the previous flyer design was completed, I was assigned another flyer for GRG 356T. This one had 6 images that needed to be included in a grid-like manner. For my first iteration I chose a color scheme consisting of light and dark blues with a light tan accent color. However, after brainstorming some more, I decided to change the color scheme to a darker blue and orange to complement the images and minimized distractions in the overall flyer design. Additionally, on the second iteration I increased the font size and made all the text white unless it was information that needed to pop.

For my final iteration, I realigned the texts to create a smoother appearance, resized some objects, and moved the color accent bar to the bottom.

Week 7

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Texas German Retractable Banner #10

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

New draft incoming!

 

Brochure Training

Completion Status: Started on Oct 4

This week I’ve worked a lot on the brochure training where I created a trifold advertisement for the Online Lecture and Courses branch of the LAITS program. It was interesting thinking about print format and how one would interact with the layout.