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:

    

    

    

Project: Government Professor’s Portraits
Client: Wendy Hunter + Rhonda Evans

 

Project: “Controlling the Border?: Labor, Lives, and Policy” Poster
Client: Jackie Llado

For this project, I was to create a poster with the given details and instructions. I have created three different drafts so that the client can choose which one they liked best and went from there.

 

Final Result:

I updated flyer material for Texas Politics’ annual Speaker Series. Texas Politics requested a flyer for print distribution, a flyer to be digitally shown on the SAC screens and a marquee for their website.

 

I used a flyer made last year as a template and updated it with information that corresponded with this year’s event. I created versions with photos that had both their original backgrounds and white backgrounds. Here are the end results that I submitted: