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IPE PPT QA

Project: Banner Design & WP content uploading for Prof. Xs, Instructional African Languages website
Client /Prof: Dell – Aguirre & Kwak
Staff guidance: De’sha
STA team members: Kate, Kyra, Lila, Shanda, Shriya
Description/plans: 9 PPT Modules to be reviewed and reformatted–make slides visually cohesive and match existing style guidelines (provided by De’sha in a standardized PPT example)

Nursing Module 2: recreate an animated graphic based on the client’s mockup. Also correct font sizes, spacing, etc.

Client Mockup

Recreated Graphic

Slide Animation

Summer Marketing

  • Spring 2025 Postcard:
    • New design with the Spring 2024 Postcard graduate image
    • New design with a new graduate image
    • New design with a new traveling image

December Projects ❆

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December Projects ❆

Studio Course Graphics

This training walked me through the process of designing and curating my own graphics for a studio setting!

My vision…

⇢ Utilize the Museum that the students get to visit during the class

⇢ Incorporate the art style that is being studied in the class

⇢ Make the graphic monochromic

It took a few iterations to get to this point, but that’s part of the process! Originally I was pretty lost when creating this piece because I felt like every version looked really busy, especially for a backdrop. I then decided to tone it down and make the design a little more simpler!

My Steps ˚⋆｡˚

✧ Make the base layer a dark blue color

✧ Found a high-quality photo of the museum interior and desaturated it

✧ Played around with the blending modes for visual interest

✧ For more depth, I decided to duplicate the museum layer, change the blending mode & opacity, and finally offset the layer from the original

Health and Society 301 Course Graphics

Summer Courses Instagram PFP

Final Version:

Notes

  • Had to Incorporate UT branding and “Summer Online”

  • Debated whether or not UT crest should be included

  • Tested out different color variations for a “summer feel”

Drafts:

December Updates

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DECEMBER 2024

At the beginning of December, I was tasked with creating a logo for UT.AI marketing. I was a little surprised when I was assigned this since I never made a logo before and only recently began training for it in my downtime. However, with the consistent feedback from De’sha and Leilani, I know what to expect in the future if I’m assigned a logo design again!

Regarding the actual creation of the logo, it took many back and forths to find the direction for the logo. Here are my sketches:

The direction of these two sketches was going in the right place and I got approval to iterate them further:

Color Iterations:

Vectorized:

The second logo was favored the most. I was asked to do one last adjustment before it was sent to Mike:

Before going on winter break, I was assigned to work on some illustrations and icons for the IPE project! These icons and illustrations would be used in animations created by Lila.

I was on a bit of a time crunch since I only had 6 days of work before I was out for winter break. I began with making sketches for the icons. Here are the sketches I was able to do:

After creating these sketches, I was to focus on creating characters, environments, and scenes for Lila to animate.


Here is the final character lineup:

These are the final environments I made:

The last thing I did was get started on a couple of scenes that would be animated. These are the ones I managed to complete before my last shift ended for the semester:

When I went on break, De’sha finished up my end! I was happy to be assigned this project because it allowed me to see how I’ve grown in Illustrator. Overall, I look forward to getting projects like this one again in the future, but hopefully we won’t be on as much of a time crunch as this one!

December

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PSY339: Behavior Problems of Children

Project: Course Graphics
Client /Prof: Dr. Sara Villanueva
Description/Plans: Updating/creating new course graphics and imagery for PSY339 Spring 2025

Pre-roll Animation

PPT Content Slides

TA Monitor

Summer Marketing

Tuition Guide

Added estimated semesters offered

Minors Guide

Updated classes and spacing