2025 Summer Marketing Campaign!

Staff Guidance: De’sha

Client: LAITS

Orientation & Fall A-frame Redesign:

I added some sunglasses on top of the textbook in the Summer Orientation A-frame and edited the phrasing of the title in the Fall Semester A-frame. We don’t want enrolled students to think we only offer core courses during the summer. Conversely, for Student Orientation, these students have almost no prior course work, therefore they’re more likely to be interested in core courses.

 

   

Fall Digital Display Redesign:

The goal of this redesign was to simplify and reduce the amount of text. We previously accomplished this in our 2024 Spring semester Digital Displays Ad when we heard they only appear for about 8 seconds on the TV screen.

I started by removing the courses and website URL since we won’t have our website fully updated in the Fall semester by the time these displays are aired. I then replaced the title with one from our recently edited (new) Fall A-frames (see images above for reference).

 

 

STA Presentation 2024!

WHoop! The 2025 STA Presentation happened about a week ago and I spent a lot of time editing and perfecting my presentation on the Summer Marketing Campaign (especially because I was the first presenter !!!) I have been told by many people that I did a good job kicking off the STA Presentation but I have yet to muster the courage to rewatch myself present on the live stream recording:) I was very excited and honored to be allowed to present this year and hopefully, I will have another interesting project to present next year!

 

 

4/22/24 – 4/26/24

This week I was assigned animation training! Below is an 8-bit animation I did in Photoshop:

I also worked in Adobe Illustrator for the first time and did pixel art of my dad with a squid plushy on his head:

I haven’t updated in a while due to a main project I’ve been working on being confidential so the other work I’ve been getting hasn’t been enough to dedicate a post to. Now, however, I do have enough material!

UTFC Work

I’ll summarize this as it’s work I’ve made posts about before. This month, I was able to complete a PowerPoint presentation for the textbook and I’ve also completed 2 banners for the project.

STA Presentations!

This was the first time I attended an STA presentation and it was a ton of fun! I learned so much about the work form other departments and got to see my fellow design STA’s present their work. It was a nice experience to cheer on all the students who work so hard in this department and I got to know some of the faculty better. It really put into perspective how tight-knit LAITS is and that it can really build connections and a healthy work culture.

Foundations of Data Science

I was assigned a new type of course graphics for the Edx department. I’ve never done this kind of work before and it was pretty intimating at first. My main assignments are to design a logo for the new class and animate it. I had know idea where to start but luckily I was given a sheet of past examples I could take inspiration from.

I also looked up how data science is normally represented and found some ideas to go off of. Here are some logo designs I was able to draft as of now.

After showing these to the client, they said that they really like the concept of the gears and puzzle piece look. They offered some notes on implementing a possible regression reference on the design so i’ll be looking into that.

Wow it’s been awhile since I posted! Here are the projects I’ve worked on since March 20:

STA Presentation PPT Template

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Mar 21
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Completed on: April 1

I worked on the presentation templates for the 2024 STA Presentation!

My hours per week are shorter than other STAs, so Leilani stepped in to finalize the template (below is what it looks like with my information):

My own STA Presentation!!

Client/Prof: LAITS
Staff Guidance: De’sha & Mike

This year I was chosen to present at the 2024 STA Presentation event! At this event STAs, staff, and alum came together to talk about the program and what we’ve done. I was super excited to be a part of it!

Here is the recording of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMASUoQOcHs

Texas German Retractable Banner #11

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on Feb 20
Staff Guidance: De’sha

I’ve been working on so many other projects I had to delay this one! This is the final draft of TGDP Banner #11:

Back to my Background Design Training

Client/Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on Oct 25
Staff Guidance: De’sha
Completed on: TBA

It’s been so long since I’ve had the chance to work on this!! As a reminder, I am creating a tutorial for future STAs to learn more about Adobe Illustrator and how to create a background in the program. I really want to finish it before I graduate. Recently I just finished a draft 1 of the tutorial and it’s now gotten feedback from Leilani, so I’ll be incorporating that. But while I work on that here’s my cute tutorial header:

4/15/24 – 4/19/24

I’m continuing my training by doing custom course graphics for a made-up class. Below are the mood boards I created to give me some direction:

While waiting for approval for direction from my trainer- I looked ahead in my training and did an exercise from “History of Design” where I modeled a design piece after a movement. I chose the Pop Art movement and here is the portrait I did of my baby cousin as an alien.

4/8/24-4/12/24

I began my training by learning how to do style A and B course graphics! I also began the process of learning how to make custom course/studio graphics.

 

Additionally, I presented at my first STA weekly meeting. I presented a project called Project: S.O.R.C which I made for the 2024 AET showcase.

 

Below are the approved custom course graphics I made: