GRADUATION TITLE CARDS

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I was tasked with making a series of title cards for different graduations based on this year’s commencement graphics.

2026 STA Presentation: PPT Template & Up Next Slides

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Currently working on these projects for this semester’s STA Presentation!!

PPT TEMPLATE

Drafting

• I began drafting the PPT template, channeling the art gallery theme.

Edits

• We went back and forth a few times in order to make the template cohesive with the presentation poster.

• I added white backgrounds in order to allow the images that will be placed in the frames later to pop.

• We decided to return to the background used in the original draft, as well as make the branding smaller.

• Changed the branding to dark brown so it doesn’t get lost, moved the frames down in order to leave space for titles, and added a few more variations.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS

UP NEXT SLIDES

Drafting

• Keeping cohesive with the rest of the PPT Template.

Edits

• Adding test headshot and text, as well as painting assets used in the poster to remain cohesive.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS

STA 2026 PRESENTATION GRAPHICS

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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!

— Title Cards–

As presentation assets were finishing up, there were enough completed ones for me to easily create the title cards. These would be used to introduce an STA for the “Get to know an STA” segment. I built the design off of Sasha’s “Up Next” slides!

This is my first pass at the design. De’sha suggested I used a bolder font similar to Benton Sans for the “Get to Know an STA.”

Below are my next two iterations. I felt that the since both of the texts were bold, it needed something to seperate the two texts so I added the line. This ended up being the design we proceeded with!

— Reflection–

Texas Politics Project (Feb Update)

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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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For presenting, I wanted to note:

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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KB Website Redesign

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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!

-Spring 2026 Voting PSAs-

In January, I focused on making three separate designs for the Spring 2026 Voting PSA’s, Register to Vote, Early Voting, and Election Day.

Register to Vote PSA

Out of these two styles, I combined the two to make the background blue and the text red, leaving less white space. The hand was moved on top of the frame in order to convey the imagery of the hand dropping a ballot into the ballot box.

Finally, the hand was scrapped and replaced with a vector of multiple people with voting sheets. The text was right adjusted and a motif was established with the top bar of red, white, and blue stripes.

Early Voting PSA

This design went through the most iterations, starting with the first one which included a photo of two people showing their voting stickers. The second iteration replaced the image with a vector of a crowd walking over to a polling station.

Later, the hand was brought back, this time painted over and vectorized. “Skip the Lines” was also changed to “Cast an early”. In this iteration the striped motif was brought back in.

The final version added stars to fill in some of the empty blue space, and the informative text below “VOTE” was adjusted left. The stripes on the sides were also cut in half.

Election Day PSA

This design went through one continuous iteration with little major changes. In Photoshop, I created the main project file for the design, and used Illustrator for the voter sticker asset. Just like the previous two designs, I used the red, white, and blue stripes, and included the informative text on the bottom.

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-COLA Texas German Dialect Project-

Starting in February, I picked up some of the banners for the Texas German Dialect Project

Word Order

Initially, the Word Order and Verb sections were combined into one single banner, however, there was too much information to cover to fit into one banner, so each of the two sections were split into their own single banner. We are still currently waiting on client feedback, as there is still a decent amount of white space to cover.

Verbs

This section is so far the one with the most information I’ve worked with, and we are still waiting on client feedback in order to see how we can condense the information in order to fit the length of the banner.