STA Presenter Intros

Project: STA Presenter Intros
Client: LAITS
Completion status: started 3/20/23, finished 4/6/23
Staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Lorena, Carrie, & Luisa
description/plans: I made a template for other STAs to help out with creating the STA Presenter Intros. I then delegated the STA intros to Lorena, Carrie, and Luisa to start working on them.

 

ALL OF THE INTROS ARE DONE! It was very intimidating to be in charge of an assignment like this, especially with my more experienced co-workers looking to me for clear instructions. In the end, it felt very rewarding though:)

more stickers!!! (I like the hotdog lego man)

 

UTFC Logo Design 

Project: Connexions Francophones Logo
Notes: For this week I’ve been focusing on finalizing the logo for approval. Thanks to Maddy’s guidance and draft I was able to make a logo we both like and agree on. The color scheme was altered and a blue halo was further added to encase the logo.

 

UTFC Advertisements

Project: Connexions Francophones Ads
Due On: End of April
Notes: As UTFC inches closer to publication, I was tasked with developing advertisements for them to use in print and websites. I currently have a draft of a student with ideas flowing out of their head.

 

STA Presentation Intros

Client /Prof: LAITS
Completion Status: Started on March 24
Staff Guidance: Maddy
STA Team Members: Marissa, Carrie, Luisa
Complete by: ASAP

More work on the STA presenter intros for their presentation segments! I think I’ve done 4-5 since I last posted, so here is one of them:

Week 11

 

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

 

Project: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Website

Client/Prof: Department of Psychology

Started on: March 29, 2023

Completion status: In progress

Staff guidance: Stacy Vlasits, Marianne

Description/plans: Move the content from the current existing lab website to an updated theme.

In this project I will help move the content from the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab websites to a new theme that Marianne created.

 

 

This is the theme of the current website and it has been the same for the past ten years! See, the LAITS logo used here is also old.

 

 

 

This is the new theme that Marianne created. It has the update Department of Psychology logo

 

 

As I was doing this migration I realized that the menu on the original website is different than the one for the sample website so I created more sections on the header in the template.

 

One styling issue that I am currently stuck on is whether to create a completely new section for some content that could be a subsection of an already existing section in the new template or just add the heading.

 

I tested to see how the look of having all the headings as they are in the original website would look like along with’s Marianne’s theme.

RACE Lab Logo

Project: Resilience and Adversity (in) Children’s Ecology Lab Logo
Client /Prof: Professor Ibekwe-Okafor
Completion status: Started March 2, 2023
Staff guidance: Maddy
Description/plans: Design a logo/branding for Prof. Ibekwe-Okaforwork that can be used on her website.
To be completed: before Summer

We recently received feedback on our first draft of logos from Prof. Ibekwe-Okaforwork. She emphasized the importance of displaying her lab’s core values: resilience, adversity, race, ecology, policy, and research. She liked the silhouettes but requested a more gender-neutral presenting child. She also wanted to see if we could incorporate ABC blocks, puzzles, or gears into the logo. Some of these more detail-oriented qualities might not translate as strongly when it’s in a small logo, but I tried my best to create something legible and recognizable.

First draft:

After feedback:

STA Presenter Intros

Project: STA Presenter Intros
Client: LAITS
started on: March 20, 2023
staff guidance: Maddy
STA team members: Lorena, Carrie, & Luisa
description/plans: Last week I made a template for other STAs to help out with creating the STA Presenter Intros. I then delegated the Audio STAs to Lorena, and this week Carrie and Luisa started working on the other STAs.

It feels very different to be in the art directing position. The STAs who are helping come to me for guidance and feedback which I’m not used to (usually I am the one asking!) It’s fun to organize and talk with other STAs about the project though. The overall task doesn’t seem too complicated after I made the template and typed out instructions. I had to take a pause from the intros since I had to prioritize the RACE lab logo, but I’ve been trying to cut out knick-knacks and STA photos to make to process smoother for Lorena, Carrie, and Luisa (They are the best!)

We have 12/14 completed!

Template:

Finished Presenter Intro by Lorena!!!!

STA Presenter Intros I completed:

 

Studio Stickers (the mug is my favorite):