The COLA history department requested to have their homepage banner changed to advertise an upcoming panel.

They submitted this graphic to be edited:

Suloni and I agreed that the graphic was a little text heavy to be a banner. I created two drafts of the banner for Suloni to choose from. Here is the first graphic, that she did not select:

And here is the product we submitted to the client:

We agreed that the black background looked a lot cleaner and made the text more readable. In the end, the client decided to design their own graphic and did not use our recommendations.

Project: CAAS Flyer Design/Layout
Client: Sona Shah and Madiha Haque

 

Since the beginning of this semester, I have been working on a redesign for the banner on the French & Italian COLA webpage. This is my first major graphic design endeavor, and I’ve learned a lot along the way.

The client was hoping for a banner that would equally represent both the French and Italian departments. He provided two quotes that he really enjoyed; one from a famous French person and one from a famous Italian person. There were certain aesthetics he was going for, based on an old Italian film poster. I started with a very rough draft that Andre had created and sort of had it evolve throughout a series of drafts.

Here is the final product, published on the French & Italian home page:

Here are the options we submitted to the department for approval:

 

Here are the first couple of drafts or so, to give you an idea of what the evolution was like:

I recently helped Andre repair a couple Feature Archive pages on the COLA website. The pages all had similar issues: broken links, missing text and wrongly sized images. This was my first time editing the COLA website through Cascade and I found the CMS very easy to use.

The following pages are what I fixed:

• Economics Feature Archive
• AMS Feature Archive
• Anthropology Feature Archive
• Government Feature Archive
• History Feature Archive
• Philosophy Feature Archive
• Sociology Feature Archive

Here are some samples of what the pages looked like before and what they look like now: