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Week 12

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KB Research – Background in Illustrator

Completion Status: Started on Oct 25

This week I worked on further filling out my background design tutorial by finding tutorials online to link and also supplementing with my own little tutorials. Here are my new additions, which I hope to edit further and increase the text size (and also fix the orange arrow on the first tutorial):

Siamdoust Pattern Updates

Client/Prof: Nahid Siamdoust
Completion Status: Started on Nov 14
Staff Guidance: De’sha & Stacy

This week I was assigned a quick project to slightly change the pattern for a banner on Nahid Siamdoust’s website, and additionally also pull out the logo and isolate it on a 512×512 image. Princeton gave me some tips for copy/pasting the pattern before rotation into place which ended up working out really well (thanks Princeton)!

ACME Iterations

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ACME Iterations

With feedback to add color to my modern logo and old-timey engraving, I gave ACME Widget Co. a more storied heritage and bolder modern presence.

ACME Widget Co. Logos

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ACME Widget Co. Logos

Client: Professor Brian Roberts, GOV 312L

Project Type: Logo Design

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

Role: Graphic Designer

Duration: 5 hrs

Heritage Logo

Modern Logo

Sketches

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!