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Week 9 – Thang

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Week 9

Project: Exposure Therapy Lab

Started on: October 31, 2022

Completed on: Nov 2, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this project, I was asked to fix up some stuff relating to Research Posts and Logo Walls.

  1. Finished the logo displaying as a carousel
  2. Display the Research Posts
  3. Emailed the clients and asked for more feedback. The clients were really impressed with the designs and all of the changes I made. The clients asked for two more changes relating to the search function of the research posts and the display of the button of the word.
  4. Edited the display word of the button.
  5. Working on Adding a Search Bar, and Selecting multiple topics at once

Project: French Website 

Started on: Nov 2, 2022

Completed on: Nov 3, 2022

Staff Guidance: Ruben, Marianne

Description: For this project, I was asked to add different layouts and designs based on Carrie’s website.

  1. Adding map and different modules to the Program Suite Destination Page.
  2. Adding Key Pedagogies and Key Technologies to the Page.

 

Week 8

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GSD 360 Poster and Slide

Client /Prof: Professor Jana Weiss
completion status: Started on Oct 24
staff guidance: Valerie
To be completed: Finished Oct 27

This week I mainly focused on this GSD 360 project, where I designed an 8.5×11 poster and an intro slide for the GSD 360: Learning from the Germans? Transatlantic Memory Cultures class.

Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. It didn’t change too much visually since last week, but I played around more with calendar events and design this week.

UTFC French Textbook

Client /Prof: Professor Yazz
completion status: Started on Oct 27
STA team members: De’Sha
To be completed: TBD

I just barely started looking at the UTFC French Textbook Project, working on the “More Colors and Shopping List” vocab slides. I didn’t get super far to warrant a picture, but I’ll be working on it more this week!

tockify wrapper code

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data-tockify-width (or just width in WordPress). This limits the calendars width. You need to include units, e.g. 400px or 50%. It’s usually better not to set this and limit the width using your own wrapper div.

Week 7

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Tockify Calendar Mockup

Client /Prof: Professor Grayson
completion status: Started on Oct 13
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Thang
To be completed: TBD

Last week I worked more on the Tockify calendar mockup, the goal being to make a calendar that displays academic and religious holidays to spread awareness of holidays that faculty, students, or staff may be celebrating. Here is the calendar embedded again:

Alternatively, here is the link to the calendar on a more regular webpage view.

 

The above embedded might revert back to not being customized after the premium trial runs out in a few days, so further videos on what the calendar is meant to look like at this stage can be found here.

STA Trainings – History of Design

Completion Status: Started on Oct 20
Staff Guidance: Valerie
To be completed: TBD

I made a first draft of the history of design training, where I chose the Swiss style. I did this in Photoshop, and for the colors I used the “blending options” popup and edited the RGB settings. The full tutorial can be found here. 

 

….and then I also tried my hand at the STA blog banner, but I’m assuming we’re not meant to show progress on that to keep anonymity.

Week L

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Week L

Isn’t it weird that Roman numerals jump from XLIX to L? Why isn’t it IL for 49? I guess it’s to standardize the tens place. Anyways,

Fall 2022 STA Poster

As of writing, both of these are wrapped!

The video poster underwent some minor changes since last week – the strips have square holes now.

Project team went through many more iterations – about half of them within the last hour of crunch time Friday. Here’s a summarized chronology:

And the final cut:

Flyer GSD360 for Spring ’23

Project: Flyer GSD360 for Spring ’23
Client /Prof: Jette Gindner
completion status: WIP
staff guidance: Maddy K, Suloni robertson
STA team members: N/A
description/plans: TBA
To be completed: TBA
This one’s exciting! My first real client graphics in a while: a flyer for a course on early German film, from the silent era to 1945. The idea so far is a grid of movie stills/posters, with one black rectangle for the course info, and then either slanting or rotating it. Not much to show… yet!