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LAITS: IT and Facilities Director, Joe TenBarge initiated the Student Technology Assistant program in 2004. STAs are UT students who work on a variety of projects in collaboration with UT faculty and LAITS staff members. STAs assist College of Liberal Arts faculty members and administrative staff with print and web design. From building presentations, to creating audio/visual works, and producing online classes in the LAITS film studios, STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for multimedia projects that enhance their teaching and the students learning experience. By the end of their student careers, STAs have portfolios which demonstrate their accrued technical and design skills.
Creative and technically inclined students are appointed as STAs for one year, with the possibility of being rehired as long as they study at the university. Applicants for the program are hired before both long semesters. Interested students may look for postings on Hire-A-Longhorn when positions are available. Positions will have Student Technology Assistant (illustrator or web designer) in the title of the job post.
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To correspond with the summer online postcard, an ad for 2018 summer online courses will be shown on screens around campus (i.e. Union, SAC, etc.). The design is complementary to the postcard with the same paper collage style, beach scene, and mixture of warm and cool tones.
Below are the first drafts of the design.
And here is the finalized design:
This week was pretty busy for me school-wise, so I didn’t really get much focus during work. I just worked on Doorways for the whole week, but at least I have something to show for it. I finally finished the interactive! It was a pretty long process, during the week as I tested it in comparison to the original one I kept finding new things that I had to change. Over the weekend I finally had time and peace to sit down and setup every new window and popup that I could find. I used the testpset function on Canvasser a lot, since buttons on background layers (like the doors on the main frame and the check out the evidence) would be activated even if you clicked a layer above the actual button. It was also kind of a hassle to restore everything so that the initial animation, which I had disabled so that I could work on everything else, ran and looked good.
This on the top is the first door button, which has a fade followed by a slide with clickable pictures.
This is the third door button, which also has clickable pictures.
Anyways, I have a new week now and new projects waiting for me to complete. I don’t think we’ll be able to finish all TBH by March, but I think we’re really, really close.
Another RUS 407 illustration assignment!
First sketch:
Started coloring:
And then I changed the waves and finished coloring the boat:
Made further edits – removed the building in the back, added some warm colors, and added depth to the water & the waves:
** also took notes on Adobe color management systems, which I will post soon
I was assigned to practice making a RUS style illustration, for the illustration series many STA’s work on!
Using an array of symbolic and historical images, the wall monitor monitor design will be a collage. Other course monitor designs have featured just rectangular grids, so Suloni suggested the use of alternative shapes. Here are the first drafts that take on the appearance of a mosaic.
For the next draft, I want to include round shapes instead of polygons.
