Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on August 24
Staff Guidance: De’sha
This week my main project has been working on the TGDP banner. I’ve been focusing a lot on text/picture placement and also worked on making the background out of one of the map images.
09/04 - 09/08
This week was a short one due to Labor Day giving us Monday off. Still, I managed to make headway on the custom course graphics training, which De’sha has been helping me with by providing helpful feedback. Gone is the old Wiener Werkstätte poster, and in is a new custom collage combining some seminal moments from art history in the twentieth century. The new direction is bold and bright. Take a look below.
In addition, I brushed up on the Elements and Principles of Design, and I’m currently working on an explanatory powerpoint which shows examples of each element and principle in fine art.
Ker Blam!
Started on: Sep 7, 2023
Completed on: Sep 7, 2023
Description:
For this project, I need to go to the updated website and convert any links that are linked to live-ma-eco to ma-eco. I am very happy that this website that I worked on last December has been published. The old website looks very plain, and this website breathes a whole new vibe to the Department of Economics. Therefore, I am just excited to see how the new website is finally live. This project seems simple enough, but I need to go through each different page and check for every single link. It is a little bit of work here and there, but I completed it in a couple of hours.
Started on: Sep 7, 2023
Staff Guidance: Stacy
Description:
This project is very interesting. I was given a dataset on the faculty members at UT Austin and needed to visualize with different charts and graphs to see the distribution of an average of committees that faculties were on. This is a classic data visualization project that involved me exploring the dataset and building various beautiful charts to explain and explore the data. I used Tableau for this visualization. I need to poke around to see different things in the tools and create a narrative for the dataset. Overall, it is a really fun project.
Started on: Sep 8,2023
Description:
I got some training with Tableau where I got to build bar charts that display different data relating to the dataset on sales. The graph explains the sales for each representative and in each region. I find that working in Tableau is very easy and super intuitive. I love how Tableau simplifies the data visualization task and helps craft good visually appealing storytelling if the data analysts utilize it in their own interest.
This is another graph on a different dataset. The dataset is about unemployment by gender and age groups throughout the years. This is the area chart that shows the unemployment sum throughout year by each age group and with gender filter.
With the second week behind me and some trainings under my belt, I am feeling more and more like a bonafide STA every day. This past week, I worked on some fun personal graphics including the banner you see above depicting my artistic license and a little self portrait that will be used in a poster assembling all the STAs. Apparently it looks more like my roommate than myself, but that’s okay. It’s the thought that counts.
After those projects, I moved on to training myself on creating Course graphics in three different styles. These were interesting to work on — I was able to learn some process and the unique quirks that came with it. I found some areas of potential improvement, which I hope to implement in order to streamline the training process and remove some friction. A sample of graphics I created for these trainings can be seen below.
The second week has helped me get into a groove of working and training. I look forward to completing my training and starting to work on impactful client work!
Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on August 24
Staff Guidance: De’sha
This week I mostly worked on making the TGDP poster more readable in following where someone’s eyes would naturally read, as well as editing picture placement to not be intrusive to the text.
Client/Prof: Laura Lashinger, PhD & Heather Leidy, PhD
Completion Status: Started on August 23
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Closing in on the final version of this, I think! I further smoothed out the motion and edited out the face features move.
Lastly, one of my other projects that I have something to show for now is the updates I’ve made to my little blog caricature! The biggest change is of course the eye design which I’ve changed to match the “art style” that I’ve been developing since my last iteration. I’ve also switched up the outfit again and updated my hair. Just need to make a few final touches and then I’ll call this good to go!
This is my second week and I’ve been focusing on completing the tasks under Basic STA Skills, starting with learning the Intro Training: Style A & B Course graphics.
Start: August 28, 2023
Completed: August 29, 2023
In this task I had to learn about the two different styles A&B for course graphics. Though the lesson contained a lot of information, after going through each task I felt more confident in my abilities and learned little by little. I enjoyed the process of getting to know the different styles and how they vary depending on what a professor would like. It was also a bit challenging because it was my first time using multiple softwares like Photoshop and Adobe After Effects, but it was fun learning about them. Heres’s what I have done so far:
Style A
Canvas:
Ipad:
Stingers:
Style B:
Ipad:
Stingers: