Continuing to come up with new banner ideas for Dr. Jasper Smits’s WordPress site. Taking in consideration for Kei’s comment on the text, and Suloni’s suggestion for looking at the art deco style illustration as well as using the IMHR colors, this is the third version of the banner I came up with.

Project: COLA ID Color Corrections
Completion status: Completed
Staff Guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Color correct photos and size them into ID’s.

Project: TOWER Set Design Mockup
Completion status: Finished
Staff guidance: Suloni
Description/plans: Make a mockup for what the TOWER background design might look like with the two designated professors.

tutorial: Cascade, WordPress
description: conducting individual / group tutorials of Cascade CMS and WordPress to multiple faculty / staff; providing technical support; resolving technical issues

project: edX platform development
completion status: near-finished; both courses have officially started
description: two edX courses (Ideas of the 20th Century, Age of Globalization); graphical elements including but not limited to banners, profile pictures, social media cover/backgrounds, footer elements, and email templates; Implemented the entire framework of the course; layout design

project: edX platform development
completion status: ongoing
description: creating, revising, and implementing the xml framework for UT COLA’s two upcoming edX courses (Age of Globalization, Ideas of the 20th Century); designing the graphical elements for the courses; layout design of the courses on edX
currently: working on the branding of the edX modules

project: character illustration
completion status: ongoing, near-done
description: sketching, refining vector character illustration; practise of the pen tool / drawing / sketching; study of shadows, highlights, flat-colour (no gradient) colour palettes, asymmetry / symmetry, and body proportions; developing personal design style of character
currently: touching up fine details, such as creases and textures; fixed the alignment of the knees (not fixed in below image)

older colour version (below left): changes in-between the original colour version and above include hair length, body proportions (less-exaggerated length of neck & legs), ears, nose, clothing creases, hands, shoes, tie pattern, shadows / highlights (and other perspective / 3d visual hints such as the folding of the jacket, inner jacket colour)

sketch (below right): rough idea; visually inspired by all of the manga I read (special shout-out to Ao no Excorcist); typical manga-style spiky / messy hair, casual jacket with tie, not too stiff / formal, overall very slim and tall

project: Texas Politics
completion status: slowly ongoing (priority only to new updates)
description: updating the static poll charts into javascript interactive results
currently: new updates to June 2013 were completed as a priority; slowly updating February 2010 polls when possible
http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/11_9_17.html

tutorial: STA training
completition status: ongoing
description: helping to train the new STA’s; giving feedback
currently: waiting for Cascade mockups

project: mobile responsive COLA site
completition status: slowly ongoing (not a priority)
description: intensive logic puzzle #2 to re-create mobile-responsiveness by adding only css, without being able to add any html / javascript (logic puzzle #1 was the Labs WordPress Theme which had the same restrictions but was luckily less complicated)
currently: studying the structure of the COLA site; looking at cutting-edge CSS; thinking of possible solutions
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/

tutorial: Cascade
completition status: finished
description: conducting individual / group tutorials of Cascade CMS to multiple faculty / staff; providing technical support; resolving technical issues

project: minni-banner for LRC
completition status: finished
description: LRC minni-banner needed to be updated to current website’s design style / banner

Project: edX Jazz

Completion Status: Done!

Staff Guidance: Suloni

Descriptions/Plans:

Another cool edX class on the subject of Jazz. Ideally it seemed more like a history of Jazz and probably it’s effect on history. The design aspect was pretty simple to conjur up, as they wanted something kinda musical, but not obvious or reminiscent of learning Jazz music. Below are some thumbs and the final logo, plus title cards for the edX site!