I made graphics for both a solid color style and image style.
Currently working on these projects for this semester’s STA Presentation!!
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My focus for most of February has been the graphics for the STA 2026 Presentation which I’m overseeing! This is the biggest project I’ve acted as art director for. While I keep track of the assignments I provided to other designers, I have my own task to work on: the walk-in animation.
— Walk-In Animation–
Progress as of 2/18/26
Initial Mood board
Initial Mock Up
Storyboard
Frames: First Iteration
Feedback: First Round
It was decided that the aesthetic for presentation graphics should pivot to a more modern gallery style. Some notes for me to keep in mind were unique frame layouts, warm wood flooring, spotlights, accent walls, and essentially anything that supported the modern gallery aesthetic. I was also suggested a layout that I could follow for the frames.
Wall Iteration
Progress as of 2/24/26
Light Fixtures
After a bit of back and forth and tweaking, the backgrounds for the paintings were settled! The next thing to add was light fixtures- suggested by De’sha. The first image is my first attempt at them. However, I was requested to see how it would look if the lights were at different angles- similar to one of our main references. So, I utilized the light assets Asha made for the presentation poster!
Pivot Pt. 2
After some discussion with Lila and De’sha, another pivot was decided! To draw more attention to the frames and STAs, there will be a shift to a white background to all assets. Additionally, instead of statues we will do red velvet rope. It was decided that the statues may distract from the STAs in the frames too much. Below is the main reference for the background for future iterations of presentation graphics.
These are the most recent drafts as of 03-03-26. After adjusting the lighting of some of the STAs, it will finally be time to animate!
Animation
Doing a seamless scrolling animation was a lot more tedious than I thought! Since the animation had 3 main moving parts (roof detailing, frames, and velvet rope), it was a bit difficult to line up the cut from the end back to the beginning without a weird jump. However, with some help from Lila and adjustments, I was able to achieve a parallax effect with little jitters!
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Onto the final stretch for the Texas Politics Project! I designed a presentation page comparing the original designs with my suggested design from the feedback I received. De’sha then let me know about tailoring the comparison a bit more and to organize the figma file with arrows for each change I made!
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Global changes: font, color palette, and spacing
Highlight the specific changes: navigation bar, home page, blog page, graph page
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I then created the final presentation page documenting every change from the current website to now! I made sure to highlight global changes and areas I looked over last time like the drop down menu and navigation! It was quite therapeutic seeing the before and after too!
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Another project I am working on is redesigning the KB website to have a modern and refreshed feel! So far I have creative freedom while designing so it is very fun trying all sorts of layouts and designs! Above is some sketches I had in mind before designing some low-fidelity wireframes.
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While creating the low-fidelity wireframes, I decided to explore different layouts for the buttons that navigate to a training page! I wanted to implement some variety in the overall visual design of the home page so some brainstorming was needed before completing all the high-fidelity wireframes!
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This is where I am currently at while designing the hi-fi wireframes! Designing the icons was my favorite part but now I’m deciding how much variation can actually be implemented! But I am excited to see the multiple drafts all come together!