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GSD Course Promo Flyers

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GSD Course Promo Flyers

Start: Mar 6st, 2024

To be Completed: Mar 8st, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client:  UT German Studies Department

Project Description: Germanic Studies has requested the course posters (one portrait for print, one landscape for display) for the class German for Graduate Students in Other Departments. The class is designed to teach graduate students from other departments how to read German for their own research purposes.

Process

Since the focus of the class is to teach graduate students how to read German for their own research purposes, including German characters and syntax, I made two versions based on two directions: One is the chart that includes the basic vowel as the introduction of Germany; the other idea is to include different pieces of historical pieces that might be the first-hand resource that students might consider for their research. However, the vowel chart is sprayed on the manual and makes it less professional. Then second one is a good vibe but is limited to specific information.

Final

For the final version, I decided to change my keyword in search to “German Library” instead of “German Studies” or “Germany”. The scope of the library could convey the sense of researching and studies with broader horizons and possibilities.

 

STA Presentation

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STA Presentation

Start: Mar 7st, 2024

To be Completed: Mar 7st 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client:  Internal LAITS Project

Project Description: Edit Save the Day to match the aesthetic of the presentation poster. Make STA goofy greenscreen cut-out with photos as the add-on element for the presentation poster

Save the Day

Save the Day is the graphic that LAITS sends out STA presentation invitations on social media. Shiya made compelling graphics on the base of wristbands.

In order to make a consistent visual identity, we decided to replace the black background with the elements from the presentation poster. One example Mike gave me was the photo of Polaroid scattered on the table and suggested the overlay of photos. To make the images more vector-based, I chose five different polaroid frame styles and overlaid the STA representative colors to replace the photo inside, emphasizing the text on the wristbands. For the decoration elements, I reused the clips on the presentation poster.

Final Design

STA cutouts

The most significant challenge in the task is to adjust the skin tone under different shadows into the natural one as well as reduce the reflection of green on the light color. I’m able to use the channel filter and eye drop tools to make them works.

Project 0: The Kiowa Calendar Project

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Project 0: The Kiowa Calendar Project

Project Started On: February 9th, 2024
Project Wrapped Up On: March 8th, 2024
Staff Guidance: Stacy
Link to Website: https://kiowacalendars.org/

 

Skills learnt: Github Large File Storage, Storage of assets on server, Using the Terminal beyond cd, mkdir, and pwd, .gitignore in github, a minor css fix, downloading thousands of images with 1 command, utilizing local servers (MAMP)

Introduction

The Kiowa Calendar Project aims to educate the public of the Kiowa Indians visual accounts of their history. The website collects and organizes entries from 15 Kiowa calendars that are currently held at museums. The website hosts about 3000 calendar images that were previously hosted on a 3rd party image hosting service.

Project Purpose: In order to eliminate dependency on 3rd party servers, LAITS decided to migrate all the 3000 images to a local server like GitHub Large File Storage.

 The Process: 3 main steps
When I started working on this project, I felt like I had to climb a tall mountain. However, looking back, each stage was equally exciting and challenging. These were the 3 processes involved in this project:

The Project Process had me asking these questions:
Q. How do I download Images who’s links are specified in a text file?
Q. How do I write a script that alters the location of the image in the csv file?
Q. How do I test the website to see if it has been deployed successfully?

 

1. Downloading all images using their links on the KiowaCalendar Website
– I was provided with a CSV file that contained all of the links to currently existing images on the website.
– I pulled the link section of the CSV file and converted it to a TXT file
– Now, manually downloading the images would have been extremely tedious and time consuming.
– So, after an hour’s research and Stacy’s guidance, I found that a single command in your terminal will help you download as many files you want to your local device as long as the links are in a .txt file.

 

                                        wget -i filename.txt  -O

 Terminal window command to implement step

 

2. Writing Code that would append the CSV file to point to your local server
– Creating a git branch is important
– Earlier, the CSV file had a list of hyperlinks that was hosted on the 3rd party server.
– Since we are migrating it to a local server, we would want to change the path of where these files were stored.
– I utilized a python script to change the path of the files.

 

3. Deployment
– In this stage, we pushed all the changes we made into the github repository and merged it with the main branch

 

4. Testing & Debugging
– A day after the website was deployed, I found some bugs in the website. Some images were broken and there was a CSS styling issue which took away from the user experience.
– Over the last leg of this project journey, I worked on procuring the missing images and adding them to our image folder and fixing the CSS styling issue. It was one line of code!!!

 

Overall, this project was extremely insightful in helping me understand the various parts of the software development cycle! I’ve learned so much about standard practices in industry, utilizing git branches to work on different versions of the project, testing & debugging your code! I am also very grateful that the first project I worked on was being deployed live.

Week 3/18-3/22

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GSD Course Promo Flyers – UGS 302

Start: March 18, 2024

To be Completed by: March 19, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: Germanic Studies

Description: The germanic studies requested for a batch of course posters using the given template. The client looked for one, concise, and simple flyer that contained an image relevant to the course UGS 302 Reel Horror: The Holocaust in Hollywood Film and Beyond. They also requested a screen add and provide the template for it.

 

For this course, no images were provided so I searched in Pixabay, Unsplash, and Pexels. In the end I found one in Unsplash and used it for the creation of the flyer and screen add, while adding the necessary information.

GSD Course Promo Flyers – GER 322E

Start: March 18, 2024

To be Completed by: March 19, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: Germanic Studies

Description: The germanic studies requested for a batch of course posters using the given templated. The client looked for one, concise, and simple flyer that contained an image relevant to the course GER 322E CONV/COMP Society, Digital Cultures and Literatures. They also requested a screen add and provide the template for it.

 

Along with the information provided for the course, some image assets were provided as well, but I opted to look for new images in Pixabay, Unsplash, and Pexel. I found a couple, but decided on two images.

 

Using Illustrator I combined both images as if they were blending together and created the flyer and screen ad for GER 322E.

 

GSD Course Promo Flyers – GER 397P

Start: March 18, 2024

To be Completed by: March 19, 2024

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: Germanic Studies

Description: The germanic studies requested for a batch of course posters using the given templated. The client wanted one, concise, and simple flyer that contained an image relevant to the course GER 397P  Replication in Applied Linguistics, some assets were provided. They also requested a screen add and provide the template for it.

 

Using the given templates, I started creating the first iteration of flyers with the given information and images. However, one problem I ran into was that the information was too long and left little to no space which lead the decrease in the title’s font size.

 

For the final iteration, I cut out some text and kept the most descriptive part that still gave ample information about the course and created the flyer and screen ad.

Week 3/4 – 3/8 and 3/18 – 3/22

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Summer Marketing in Action!

 

(more to come soon…)

 

Canvas Banner Ads:

        • Summer Marketing needed a graphic that was 125 x 125 pixels to accompany the Canvas Banner ads. Because the pixel space was limited, we decided to use the $500 sticker featured on other promotional assets.

 

FINAL:

Email:

        • These graphics will accompany promotion for the summer online courses in a CoLA email. The four versions below are based on the colors/designs from this year’s Spring Postcard and 11×17 posters.

Week 2/26 – 3/1

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SDS 301 – Elementary Statistical Methods Course Graphics

Start: February 26, 2024

To be Completed by: N/A

Staff Guidance: De’sha & Hayley

Client: Dr. Sally Ragsdale

Description: The client requested for a new course graphic design in Style B. They asked for the Canvas graphics (Dashboard, Homepage Banner, and Buttons), and PPT slides (Course Title slide and Lecture Segment slide) with no PPT preference.

 

I started out by testing different designs with the given images and created the first iterations.

 

I choose to go with the scatterplot image because its dimensions fit the other graphics better than the line graph image. Afterward, I create the rest of the canvas and PPT slides with the chosen image.

Canvas Dashboard:

Canvas Homepage Banner:

Canvas Buttons:

 

PPT slides:

 

Design Menu: