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There is project coming up where illustrations and a gif need to be made for a text about school stress tips managements. One of the clients ideas was something with statues and shapes, although they may decide something else. For now, these are images I came up with using a collage style format. I will keep coming up with different illustrations and see what the client likes best.
I’ve made a lot of progress since my last post on HDO 301 assets. The design parameters for this project included using the HDO branding, including logo and the orange, blue, and dark gray. It also needed to be clear this is UT affiliated, in case any assets are ever shared out of context. For this type of course, since the content is business-adjacent, I decided a professional and simple design style works best. Overall, I’m happy with the final look.
The Powerpoint slides, which I’ve shared before. The more I look at it, the more I like the image I chose of the tower with people walking under it to represent human dimensions of organizations.
To make it easier on the professor I learned how to create Powerpoint templates so they are able to input their content without worrying about formatting. 
End card to play at the end of class:
Lower third card, I was surprised how well Photoshop got the job done animating this:
Graphics for background sets and screens:
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I don’t have a ton of updates this week besides more VLabs work. We really are out here doing this VLabs work.
I found a lot of duplicate interactives in between the labs and noted which ones, so I hope that helps save the team time not having to make graphics we’ve already made. It’ll help the course look more cohesive too.
It says they’re checked off but they’re not truly done! Mwahahaha
Other than that I have been working at reviewing others’ PSDs and assembling them in Canvasser. It’s good practice in following a style guide and otherwise looking for precedents. Cohesion and teamwork >> what each person personally thinks it should be at this point. I’ve also learned to animate Canvassers!
Project: HDO 301
Client /Prof: HDO
Completion status: July-Aug 2019
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson
STA team members: me!
Description/plans:Create graphic assets for online HDO course, including powerpoint templates, backdrops, credits, etc.
To be completed: mid-August
Well well well… another week has passed by as an STA. I took a small break from monkey skulls aka VLabs to create some assets for the Intro to Human Dimensions of Orgs online course. The long-term goal is to be able to reuse these templates for any online HDO course. The department wanted to emphasize the HDO and UT brand/logo in case the slides ever appear outside of their usual context.
As a student I know it can feel weird if your classes feel super modern/polished/branded/whatever so I was not going for avant-garde with these designs. Lowkey=good, which is why of HDO’s three brand colors (orange, blue, gray), I used gray as the main accent color in the final. I’m sharing two drafts and and the final version is below those.
It sounds like the professor will show up in a small video box in the right bottom corner of slides, so I kept it blank down there. Next I’ll make some simple backdrop and title assets for the video team to include in recordings.
Personal life update, I found a really nice couch dumpster diving so sold my old one for $50! Now maybe I can get a coffee table.
Last week us STAs took a field trip to the Blanton Museum. I always like visiting the Blanton, especially as a nice break in between classes or work on campus.
We visited “Austin,” the permanent building installation by Ellsworth Kelly. It is a pseudo-cathedral constructed with materials from Spain, Germany, and the US (Georgia and Austin). I enjoy Kelly and others like Frank Stella who work in the abstract color blocked style, and it’s interesting to see that translated into a structure. The black and white “paintings” are actually black and white marble, each sourced across the world, and fused together.
The lighting in the building is gorgeous but doesn’t translate well to iPhone photography. So I rocked with it and made this edit.
Next was the Jeffrey Gibson exhibition. It featured geometric paintings and beaded sculptures inspired by his experiences growing up Native American living abroad. It was interesting how his art incorporated many words and even phrases (some lyrics?), I think it added a lot to the exhibit. It was a great time!
Though honestly anything is better than the Blanton’s last exhibit where the featured piece was a “make tacos not war” neon sign… like are you kidding me? I’m sorry but that’s been done in 1,000,000 ~quirky~ South Congress-esque stores. Or like, cards from 2012. That’s my hot art take of the day. Thank you.
