InDesign Training Part 2

I learned more InDesign tools and concepts by making a flyer for “Conversations on Race and Gender,” based on a lecture series from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department. I got really good feedback from Megan and Poonum as my design changed in every iteration. Here are some versions:

Photo IDs

I edited some photo ID’s for the COLA Website:

Infographics Basic Training

I created an Infographic including information from a National Geographic article titled, “Apples of Eden: Saving the Wild Ancestor of Modern Apples.” The article mentions the ancient woodlands of Kyrgystan and its surrounding regions and the genetic diversity of wild apples. I came up with different graphics to represent the information mentioned, here are some design iterations:

 

Weekly Recap

At the beginning of the week, Maddy helped me hash out what was going wrong with the Canvas callout buttons’ color. Turns out, the color profiles of PNGs and JPGs are slightly different, and exporting all other Canvas assets as PNGs seemed to do the trick.

Poonum and I are reworking the InDesign Part II training to be more explicit with expectations and design best practices.

I also got started on the pixel art training! It’s super fun so far.

 

 

Not much to talk about this week as this is the only day I’m working this Thanksgiving week :^(

However, I had my eval meeting today, and here’s what I have so far for the InDesign training!

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https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/11/24/36243-2/

This week, after a week-long break, I finished my HTML/CSS training — you can see the finished product here. I also completed some options for the ISPRII logo, and did some photo IDs, examples of which can be found tomorrow.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/11/20/36205-2/

Weekly Recap

This week, I worked on some IDs, finished the HTML training, started Poonum’s project time estimates training, and worked on simple course graphics for a women’s and gender studies course. The professor for that course didn’t like the deep purple I originally chose, so I’m redoing them with a slightly pinker, brighter shade. But there’s an issue: the PSD file for the Canvas buttons has slightly different RGB color settings than the others and as a result, the pink extends further into the blue in the B values. Take a look: