Who We Are
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.
Faculty & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.
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Updates to draft (reposted from Basecamp):
– put “the littlefield lectures” onto one line and reduced font size (72pt ~1″)
– centered text and changed layout to display one-column
– changed border and added accents (quarter-circles)
– removed “speaker”
– moved the lectures onto different lines to make them more “distinct”, as requested
– corrected event times
– removed texture from final draft and inserted blue gradient layer
A little late but… I finally finished my self-portrait!
I spent my whole long shift last Saturday working on my STA portrait. It definitely took me longer than I originally thought. I had to brainstorm for ideas, look up like 20 different Photoshop tutorials and get my hands dirty trying out different pictures, styles and scenarios.
Originally I was planning to use my body but replace my head with a cartoon version of it. After I didn’t like that I decided to just alter the whole picture and make it look sketch-like. Here are some pictures of different steps and my progress.
We’re officially out of the period of the Roman monarchy. We have an unhappy crowd of Romans, some important figures who are told to kiss their mother, and the first consul of Rome yelling that there shall be no more kings.
This past week I got the chance to design another poster! The history department is hosting an event commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther. I decided to use a Fraktur typeface more or less appropriate for the historical period, along with a bold “M” as a reference to illuminated manuscripts popular among religious texts from Martin Luther’s era. Below are my three iterations.
For the final iteration, the client asked for a more red color as well as more attention drawn to the speakers’ names and information. I scaled down the M slightly in order not to obscure the main image.
Helped Chad with LAITS Slide Deck designs:
Worked on RUS 407 illustration for coloring:
LAH designs:
Thought I was supposed to change the design of the logos, so I worked on those first…
Turns out I was supposed to redesign the flyer itself! So this is the final product I came up with, with the help of Suloni:
And again, I did bunch of photo ID’s, too !!
Updates to draft (reposted from Basecamp):
– added UT History dept. logo and Littlefield house
– added gradient vignette
– added some texture to the text–not sure if I want to keep the texture so I made flat versions
– removed texture from poster background b/c it looked like a pattern of water droplets or moisture
I added texture to the type instead of the background.
