Custom Course Training Complete!

Client: Training

Project Type: Graphic Design, Layout Design

Tools and Skills: Adobe Photoshop, Illustration

Role: Graphic Designer

Duration: 9 hours

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.

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.

 

Week 28 

Project: Data Visualization Tool (Continue)

Started on: Sep 14, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description:

Continuing from last week’s progress, I explored again all of the columns and rows with scatterplot and bar graphs.

There are three rows that are important in this dataset:

1. Graduate Advising Commitment Load (The workload and commitment that people commit to different committees)
2. Total Committees (total number of committees people commit)
3. Count of the dataset (how many people actually record their data)

There are different columns that are important:

1. Gender
2. Ethnicity
3. College
4. Department
5. Department Size
6. Tenure

 

Some insights that I had: 

• On average, the medium department size has more committee total and more committee service followed by small and at last large even though large has the most committees in total. The surprising thing for me is that even though Small has the least committee total it has more committee service on average. 
• It suggests that in small department sizes, people tend to take up more work and work for longer for committees. 
• In studying each college for each department size
  • In large dept size, the College of Education has the most committee service even though the College of Natural Science has the most committee totals. 
  • In medium, the Red Mccombs department on average has the most CS even though the College of Liberal Art has the most CT in total. 
  • In small and large department sizes, Jackso School of Geosciences comes out on top in small and second in large for the most committee service hours even though the committee total is very small. -> Suggesting that these people work really hard and have a lot of commitment. 
• Professor has more committees in total however on average, associate professor has more committees and more committee service of 8.97 and 2.79. respectively. 

 

Actually, when I look back at this insight is wrong since I had department size but I paired it with college instead of department.

• In small and large department sizes, Jackso School of Geosciences comes out on top in small and second in large for the most committee service hours even though the committee total is very small. -> Suggesting that these people work really hard and have a lot of commitment.

• Therefore, we need to use department size and department college

 

The new graphics that paired the committee service workload and graduate advising workload.

 

The old graphics that used only Committee Service Workload

The Elements and Principles of Design

In order to brush up on the elements and principles of design, I studied each concept and found a piece of art that exemplified it. Then, I analyzed and interpreted the piece using that element or principle. It was very enjoyable to scrounge the rich world of art history to find examples of form, line, and contrast. I felt more connected to these concepts and can definitely incorporate them more effectively into my own work. View my deep dive below.

Elements and Principles of Design PDF

 

 

I’ve been working on updating my blog caricature and banner, here are my final versions (so far anyway)! I feel like in the last year I’ve grown a lot as a designer and learned so much more about all the tools in Adobe Illustrator.

One year ago today (on Sept 12, 2022) I actually finished up my original banner, so it’s really cool to see that growth:

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And this is my caricature before and after: