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Update 4.9.2021

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ISPRII Style Guide is Done!

The remaining pages of the style guide include PowerPoint templates and mockups of the logo on different accessories, including a t-shirt, a laptop sticker, a notebook, and a mug.

E316 Website Content Transfer

This is a hard project to express visually. Most of the tasks involved making sure that the pages of the English department’s old website were successfully transferred and formatted to fit the new Grav website. However, I ran into an interesting issue in which a plus sign in the slug of one of the pages was creating duplicates that couldn’t be deleted until we asked Ruben to do so by going into the file manager.

Here’s a screenshot of the old and new websites:

After Effects Training Posts

After a couple of weeks, these new intermediate trainings on motion graphics and logo animation (as well as a reference page on Keyframing) are mostly ready to be put to use!

Here are the links to the Logo Animation and Keyframing posts that I authored, along with their respective banners designed on Illustrator and After Effects:

GOV 365W PPT Template

This was a very time-sensitive task on creating a PowerPoint template for the Human Rights/World Politics using the official UT palette and the image background shown below.

Weekly Update 04.02

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ISPRII Style Guide

At the final stages of this project, I’ve been putting together a Style Guide to present to the clients, including the different types of logos, the color palette and font selection, pairings and alternatives, and mockups.

Photo IDs

Texas Global PowerPoint Redesigns

The new styleguide provided by Valerie was a nice way to refresh these outdated designs for the old PPTs. Here are some slides of Technology Description and Market Validation:

Weekly update

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Weekly update

Before we go to commercial, here’s what I’ve been up to this week.

 

Since Texas Politics wrapped up and I got done with a lot of my KB writing and my Figma training, it’s been pretty ~chill~. I put my typography activity KB article (like InDesign Part II, but only using type) on the KB site and did about six or seven photo IDs. I also edited a few KB articles for writing and grammar — really just deleting bloated phrasing. And last but not least, I helped Miguel and Cristina pick out photos for TX Global from their gigantic folder (not kidding) and began reformatting a PPT for TXG.

 

In other news, spring break was much-needed after I did three times as many issues than usual for The Daily Texan (you can check out the special coverage here and here). I crocheted myself an ear-warmer for the fall and am currently working on a beanie for a friend of mine (I don’t have the hair for hats). I’ve also had this song on loop during my entire shift today (thanks, Spotify discover weekly).

Iconography KB Research

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Iconography

What makes an effective icon that is both appealing and readable for the brand it is supposed to represent. This was my task that I have been working on for the past couple of weeks. How to create an effective icon.

I began with some research on the foundations of iconography. Icons are supposed to be compact, simplified symbol that represents an object, action or idea. They should be able to be read at first glance. This is important because icons are everywhere and are used for navigation, warning signs, they trigger actions, and the show status for many things. People need icons to be readable beyond language barrier.

 

This leads to the most important principles of icon design, clarity, readability, alignment, brevity, consistency, and personality.

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It’s spring break (!) almost. Hope everyone gets some much needed rest this upcoming week.

Anyway, this past week I’ve been working on a mixture of things. I only worked 9 hours, but on Wednesday I worked with De’sha on a new Cascade site set-up request and followed up with client communication.

I also began working on converting some PSY 319K ppts to a new format. In between these various projects I’ve also been working a bit on a banner for the shape KB.

 

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2021/03/12/miscellany/

Typography training

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Typography Activity

This week, I wrote up an activity for part three of our new training curriculum: typography in action. In the training, the STA takes a blank letter-sized INDD file, 12 pt Arial text, and makes into a logical hierarchy and eye-catching design — using only type. Fun, right? I’ll post it to the KB next week.

I’ve also started sifting through a hefty Box folder of photos with Miguel and Cristina! It’s tedious, but there’s some great photography in there.