It’s hard to believe, but I am officially a college graduate, which means it’s time for me to move on from my position as an STA. I am truly grateful for my time at LAITS. This team felt welcoming and supportive from the very start and I met a lot of wonderful people along the way. I credit a lot of my artistic and personal growth to the experiences I had here, so thank you <3
The past month, I have been tasked with creating a winter break-centered post for the summer marketing social media campaign.
I began with a few sketches of various possible iterations. Feedback guided me in the direction of the fourth sketch, Bevo in an ornament.
Initial iterations/color palette options.
Refining of details and color palette adjustments.
Upon receiving feedback, I pivoted and adjusted the design to show Bevo in a snowglobe instead. Shown above is some of that progress.
Nicholas suggested adding a wooden texture to the table the snowglobe is placed on, as shown, as well as hooves to Bevo.
Tweaking the shadows + adding a gradient background.
Bevos’s shadow adjusted, potential LAITS snowflake logo added.
Logo adjustments.
Final post with the summer marketing logo instead.
We will be holding a end of year celebration the day after the last class day to celebrate all of our amazing STAs. There will be food, drinks and a lot of fun. With that, we need a flyer that helps promote this social. Design a fun and playful flyer that encourages people to join the festivities. The flyer should feel inclusive and if there are people illustrations, ensure that it captures all of the STA groups.
I started by creating some rough sketches of the flyer to figure out the layout. I wanted it to feel warm, playful, and welcoming, so I went with a very whimsical illustration style. The notes I received from my Art Director were to add more animals to the illustration to make it feel like a group celebration and to make each animals represent an STA department.
In my next draft, I added 2 more animals and gave each of them an object to represent their STA team (ex. headphones for audio and a camera for video). At this point, I also brought the illustration into Illustrator to add the text and paper texture overlay. A few more notes I got were to add pizza to the table and to change the color of the drinks.
And here’s the final design! I’m really happy with how this turned out, I think it’s very cute and I love the colors!
✿˖° ⋆ Fall 2025 Projects ⋆˚✿˖°
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Summer Marketing Social Media Posts
As I joined the summer marketing team, I’ve been able to create some social media posts centering around holidays and alerts for the upcoming summer schedules! Creating social media posts has been good practice for me to adapt my graphic skills for different ideas and styles!
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Texas Politics Project
I have also been tasked with updating the “Texas Politics Project” in terms of its website design! So far I have updated the home page, a standard blog post, and a singular graphic result! I’m excited to continue this project as I get the chance to develop my web design and UX design skills (ﾉ ˃ˋᗜˊ˂ )ﾉ !!
For the past couple weeks, I have been working on the roster poster showing off the spring 2026 STAs. The overall theme for these posters is “art gallery,” and specifically for my half of the roster, it is “minimalism.” The roster I have been tasked to work on includes the video, audio, and computer support STAs.
I began by finding references and inspiration images to direct me in this task. I also was interested in the concept of including perspective in this poster, as seen below.
However, after several attempts and receiving feedback, I found that the inclusion of perspective in this project would skew the photos and affect the legibility of the overall poster. I kept these reference images as my central inspiration still, though. From here, I began various iterations of a poster, considering feedback I received along the way. Seen below are various versions of this first idea as I continued.
(at this point, I learned that the official orientation for the roster posters had been switched to horizontal)
From here, based on feedback I received, I began to work on a few other options for this brief using these images as my main inspiration.
I proceeded to sketch out some ideas.
From here, I began these versions in Illustrator.
I was advised to stick with the last iteration of this design.
So I began tweaking it to make the frames bigger, try thinner lines throughout, and play around with the style of the color key. I also experimented with what this layout would look like with the stylized frames previously used.
From here, I changed the stroke around the frames in order to not lose the specific dimensions required to fully represent each STA (1.2×1 in), while also testing how they would look actually showing an STA.
I then pulled the color block text style I initially used on the first iteration on this current title to see how it would look with this layout.
Some feedback I received based on this iteration:
At this point, I was making super tiny edits. And I mean tiny. Such as changing lines around slightly, as seen in this reference showing which specific lines to edit.
From here, I also tried an iteration with “Student Technology Assistants” fully spelled out in the color block style.
This helped us land on some final final edits, including:
Client: Life & Letters
Task: Life & Letters (official COLA magazine) wants a WordPress template that they can update periodically with their print publication.
Status: In progress, working on the About page
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