Not a goodbye but a see you soon!

This will be my last blog post as a design STA. However, I won’t be completely gone as I’ve taken on the full time position in the design lab at LAITS! I’m super excited to continue working here, meeting new STAs, and getting to know the rest of the staff. I would like to thank the design managers De’sha and Valerie for taking me on as an STA and taking the time to help me and understand my goals. I’ve grown significantly as a designer and animator here and I can’t wait to see what else is next. I’d also like to thank all the STAs i’ve worked with as everyone has been super kind and insanely talented. I’ve learned so much from everyone.

Now to go onto what i’ve been doing lately.

Roster Poster updates!

This has been such a fun project to work on. We’ve made a lot of updates to the poster.

Here was the first update.

The first change was just an overall addition of detail. The docks have bricks, the houses have lines and more windows, and there’s an additonal building to fill up space. We decided to adjust the layout a bit and adding a fun detail to have the title incorporated into the smoke.

With this, we realized that the portaits maybe a bit too small and so they needed a size adjustment.

This meant adjusting the buildings to be bigger.

My face for reference. This is what we’re working with so far. There will be further adjustments in the future but for now, I really like how it’s coming along

What Jane Saw Website Badge

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For this project, I was tasked in creating a small badge that informed that a 3-D module would be coming soon to the What Jane Saw website! When drafting, I had to keep in mind the typography and color palette already on the website! Thus, these five initial drafts were formed!

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After getting feedback from De’sha, I added a paper texture to the badges and created two more badges that were less rounded! Next, the badges were off to the Stacy who De’sha and I have been collaborating with for this project!

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Once Stacy received the badges, we were informed that they were ready to send to the client for her thoughts! I sent my email with the above drafts and waited for her response for the next steps! The client had emailed me back and the draft that she picked was…(drumroll please)!

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BADGE NUMBER 6!!!

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She also informed me that the 3-D module will only be in the 1813 side which is the side that has the pink and brown color palette! What I really like about this badge design is that it can also display the What Jane Saw logo! Next step was of course to finalize the design with the logo!

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Now the final badge was completed! I also made some photo edits to what the badge would look like in various places of the website! All that’s next was to inform Stacy of the client’s approval and soon see the badge on the website!

Roster Poster Updates

(This post was made earlier in the month but due to an error with publishing it shows up before my later progress.)

The roster posters have undergone many changes following the winter olympics and Americana art themes. Here’s some more mockups I made for those themes.

After meeting with my supervisor, De’sha, we thought of broadening the theme of Americana art to eras in American art that will span for 4 posters! We will keep Americana art as one of the posters. Here’s a layout sketch I made for it and I’m pretty excited to work further on it.

More Roster Poster Progress

After speaking with De’sha on the direction of the roster posters, we decided on the theme being American art history! I’m excite for this theme, it opens a lot of directions for creative freedom.

To start, we want to do a pass of an Americana art roster poster and see the different iterations of that. Here’s what I was able to mock up.

I’m really liking the direction of these posters and they’ve been a lot of fun to work on. I’m excited to see where they will go.

Course Graphics

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This month I assisted in creating and updating course graphics! It’s always so fun getting to see different courses and seeing the changes that are requested for pre-existing designs!

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Studio Backdrops Redesign

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Next, I also started on creating additional backdrops that center on a news anchor style! I tried including UT elements such as the tower and the Austin skyline! In addition to that style, I tried to include a newspaper and geometric style to add some variety in texture and visuals!