Design Services Brochure

Client: Training

Project Type: Graphic Design, Layout Design

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

Role: Graphic Designer

Duration: 5 hours

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.

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Basic Training: Shape and Pattern

Client: Training

Project Type: Graphic Design

Tools and Skills: Adobe Illustrator, Hierarchy

Role: Graphic Designer

Duration: 2 hours

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.

 

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