-Spring 2026 Roster Poster Changes-

This week, I went through and started making a new iteration of the Spring 2026 Roster Poster, with a different direction this time. This time around, I aimed at a more realistic, brick wall environment that seemed more textured and like a real wall with graffiti on it, instead of just textures.

This has allowed me to make the elements within the design much more grounded to the its environment, as seen especially on the title and the base for the STA portrait frames in black.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/30/55242/

-Continuing Spring 2026 STA Roster Poster-

This past week I was able to make significant progress on the style of the Roster Poster, and am now experimenting with how do include various graffiti assets alongside the STA frames.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/23/55235/

Summer 2025

Summer Marketing

Fall Digital Display

11 x 17 Posters (WIP)

Continuing the campaign, my next was to redesign the 11×17 posters that will be posted around campus. This visual has gone through a lot of iterations, changing imagery, color, text, and many visual components.

FINAL POSTERS

Changes

• Hard stop gradient background
• Cleaned up photo: removed cup, background objects, and flyawayss

Overall I’m very happy with the poster! It was a struggle knowing what elements needed to be on the poster and in what order. I think this project really helped with my hierarchy skills and just developing as an intentional designer.

Fall A-Frames

Changes

• Removed tagline bar at the top
• Fixed spacing of words
• Added “Future you will thank you!” to the computer screen. Adjusted the photo so the phrase is the focus.

Spring Digital Display

v.1

For this project the objective was to mimic the visual elements of the 11×17 poster, but oriented for a TV screen.

Components

• Photo
• Visual motif that shows movement
• Tag line and URL

Finalish

• Solidified 11×17 visuals
• Thinner lines
• Different photo options
• Lighter background gradient

October Projects: COERLL and Spring 2026 Roster Poster

These past few weeks with the help of Shanda I worked on a book cover for COERLL, which involved making a text logo and map graphic. using mainly Illustrator for this project, I was able to figure out many more small and useful tips for my workflow, especially when it comes to working with vectors and customizing fonts.

-COERLL Book Cover-

-Spring 2026 Roster Poster-

At the same time, I have been working on the Spring 2026 Roster Poster, and have been experimenting with various styles for a main title graphic:

So far, I have chose to continue with concept #1, but I will also try and see how concept #2 could work out. This is also my first time using a Wacom tablet, so I am slowly learning many new things that you can do in photoshop which I hadn’t known previously. Furthermore, this project has also forced me to get back into my illustrative mindset, which I haven’t tapped into in years. (I stopped drawing in like middle school or earlier)

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2025/10/16/blog-review-oct-17/

October 2025

MSAI: AI Applications for Astrophysics Course Graphics

Project Details

This course is about how AI applications can be used to generate astro-physics data, with students who are not expected to have a background in astronomy. Typically, classes work with pre-curated data, so this class aims to teach students to compile data themselves using AI algorithms. The professors want to keep the focus for the course graphics on astronomy, however, and have emphasized that they would ideally like the typical nodes and lines to be replaced with icons of stars, planets, and galaxies, similar to the things that you can get in Mac Keynote’s shapes. In terms of animation, perhaps some sort of cosmic explosion would work well too.

Thumbnails

Mock-ups of Design 4

Revised Design

Animated Intro

Training: Photo Scanning / Color Correction