My first day as an STA was very interesting: because it was two days. Other than that, things went well. I was informed of all the general information related to promoting a smooth, understandable workflow between STAs. Everything already seems inviting and everyone is available to assist. I’m here because I like to design visuals and code things. Hopefully the work I do here grows my skill while helping the university. I look forward to the rest of my time here as an STA!
There is project coming up where illustrations and a gif need to be made for a text about school stress tips managements. One of the clients ideas was something with statues and shapes, although they may decide something else. For now, these are images I came up with using a collage style format. I will keep coming up with different illustrations and see what the client likes best.
HEY-O! I worked on poster design for the STA Fall Mixer for new hires and old hires to meet and greet. At first we had a Lo-Fi kind of them going on and then it evolved into a different style completely. The images from top to bottom are oldest to newest. The last image ended up having different animals for each department of STAs. It was lots of fun and work coming up with these and everyone seemed to find the design kind of funny. Hope to do more of these in the future!
I’ve made a lot of progress since my last post on HDO 301 assets. The design parameters for this project included using the HDO branding, including logo and the orange, blue, and dark gray. It also needed to be clear this is UT affiliated, in case any assets are ever shared out of context. For this type of course, since the content is business-adjacent, I decided a professional and simple design style works best. Overall, I’m happy with the final look.
The Powerpoint slides, which I’ve shared before. The more I look at it, the more I like the image I chose of the tower with people walking under it to represent human dimensions of organizations.
To make it easier on the professor I learned how to create Powerpoint templates so they are able to input their content without worrying about formatting. 
End card to play at the end of class:
Lower third card, I was surprised how well Photoshop got the job done animating this:
Graphics for background sets and screens:
I’ve had the chance to polish up my Illustrator skills with this basic training in creating a logo. Since it is a practice only, we can basically do anything for our logo (which, surprisingly, turns out to be a bit tough, especially in finding inspirations :p because I tend to take forever to come up with ideas). But anyway, I decided to go with the Koinobori theme.
Koinobori are carp streamers in shapes of fish to celebrate Kodomo no Hi (Children’s Day) in Japan. I am by no mean an expert in the history of this holiday nor the nature of the holiday itself, but I’ve been exposed to it previously and I thought it’d be cool to explore creating logos with this special pattern.
So these are what I came up with for the B&W draft.
And the colored versions.
Photoshop
Design and make your banner
b. Save your unmerged files back to your STA volume folder
Log-in to the STA word press blog:
Check-mark the “2019 Fall-Winter | Spring-Summer 2020” Category box for all the blog posts you make this semester and next semester so that all of your work is documented in the correct semesters.
Notification comments: etiquette, files, questions, feedback
Thank you & have
