I’ve been working on helping with art direction for course graphics, miscellaneous KBs, and Pages documentation. I spoke with Tim and Suloni Wednesday about the latter, so I’ll be hoping to post a new version on Basecamp soon. I’ve also been working on Jazz icons for MUS 307.

Project: MUS 307 Jazz Era PPT Icons
Client: Dr. Mike Sailors
Completion Status: In progress
Staff Guidance: Suloni (art director), Jennifer and Anne (PMs)
STA Team Members: me
Description/Plans: Creating jazz photographic icons for the following eras: New Orleans Era, Swing Era, Bebop Era, Cool Jazz Era, Hardbop Era, Modal Era, Fusion Era, Neoclassical Era to be placed in a powerpoint template.

I did a little research as to which jazz artists are popularly associated with each “era” or subgenre of jazz, and came up with some ideas. Here are my current icons:

Last full week!

It’s my last full week here before winter break! Here’s what I’ve been up to this week:

• LRC version below was approved by the client!
• Trainings:
  • Bezier curves in typography
  • Shape manipulation
• Photo IDs
• Feedback

In other news, I left The Daily Texan on Friday after two years. 🙁 You can read my -30- column here (what we write when we leave the paper to say goodbye).

 

 

Woo! 

I have officially completed all 33 design trainings that we have along with  7/12 of the web dev trainings!

Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Points of Contact and Site Evaluation.
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Hey everyone. This past week I’ve been working on COLA tasks and some few trainings. For COLA I’ve continued to email clients which is a first for me as well as evaluating site sizes and making notes of any interesting features or elements.

 

I have also completed the HTML training and have moved onto the git training and am working on that during downtime. Here’s a picture of my finished site.

Project: COLA Website Refresher
Client /Prof: N/A (College of Liberal Arts)
Completion Status: Started August 25, 2021
Staff guidance: Michelle Vanhoose, Chris Rankin
STA team members: Ingrid, Adrian
description/plans: Points of Contact
To be completed: TBD (long-term)

Hey everyone. This past week I’ve been working on COLA tasks and a few trainings. For COLA I’ve been evaluating site sizes and documenting them down as well as emailing clients for points of contact.

Meaningful Brand Systems pt.2

For the next section of this training, I will be creating a branding guide for a business. I decided to choose the “Fairy Forest Cafe” because it would allow me to be creative in the design and focus on my typography and color schemes, which are areas I don’t have a lot of experience with.

So far, I have been able to mainly focus on getting the logo design ready. Here is the moodboard I created with inspiration for the logo design. I wanted the logo to be cozy, welcoming and magical. I really wanted to express that it is a Fairy Forest Cafe.

Here are the two original designs I created for this client.

After receiving feedback from Maddy, I could tell that the second logo had a lot more potential. The coffee was still the center of attention for the brand but it still incorporated element related to a fairy. The next steps were to make the wings and the coffee cup look like they are a part of the same logo instead of different elements combined.

With more brainstorming, I was lead to these two design edits. I still incorporated the cup and the wings but I redesigned the complexity if the wings. I also removed the handle on the mug and replaced it with the wings.

With this edit I discovered that it no longer really looked like a coffee cup but instead a bowl of soup. In addition, having the two pair of wings felt more balanced for the design of the logo.

Also, I began looking at different fonts to incorporate into the design. I selected a few off of dafont that I believed matched the aesthetic I was going towards. After adding all of them to the logo, I found… ironically… that the Fairies font worked best for the design.

I received some more feedback and It was decided that the logo needs the handle on the cup to truly represent coffee. Here is the mock up of the design.

Next steps:

• Finalize the logo design in illustrator
• Separate the title into sections – “fairy forest” + “cafe”
  • Find a complimentary font for Fairies that will pair really well
• Finalize the color scheme.