Project: Blanton Website Migration
Client /Prof: Blanton Museum
completion status: started work on August 23 and still continuing
staff guidance: Ruben Garza
STA team members: Marianne, Angie, Abriella, Rahul
description/plans: Work on migrating the current Blanton museum website pages to the WordPress site

 

Last week we finished fixing all the alt text for images!

One thing I used to speed up the process of finding images was the media library on the old Blanton site.

I could scroll more easily to find images and also search up image names. Instead of completing 2-3 pages per day it increased my work exponentially.

Infographic training continue…

I tried to achieve a silkscreen printing style like Suloni suggested:

Project: STA Hiring Poster
completion status: in progress
staff guidance/team: De’Sha, Maddy
description/plans: Drafting for STA hiring flyer copy

I worked with De’sha and Maddy to write up a flyer copy for our hiring poster. I was out on Wednesday so kind of fell behind on this assignment, thankfully De’sha was able to keep up with Maddy and Suloni’s edits.

These are some layout draft I worked on but didn’t get to post

Week XI

This week was busy but uneventful for the Refresh project. Since we’re wrapping up the Dean’s site and entering “phase III,” we had a huge volume of tiny tasks to do, mostly checking and reformatting links, which is very hard to showcase. That said, I did make some headway on trainings.

Basic Training: Iconography

This one was very engaging to me, since I can find Illustrator uniquely… challenging, or at least not very intuitive, so it’s interesting to try and make it work the way I want. The main activity was designing 5 vector icons from a reference style. I chose this one, with black-lined shapes in yellow circles.

My first batch was a little too big, with less padding than the reference.

 

To try and make sure I got it right, I made a new layer lined up with the padding of the references, and pasted it into the other files as a guide.

The second batch seemed to turn out better, but I had to change a lot of proportions for it, as I didn’t want to just “shrink” the whole thing and lose the consistent line thickness.

Basic Training: How to Create Flashcards

This one got its own post below, since it was part of the training. [cue to scroll down]

Not that much to remark on, but it was a good exercise in Photoshop styling. The clip-art sourcing was a new skill, but I’d like to see more requirements/steps/skills etc. for this training, and some applications for the type of flashcard produced.

I also started an InDesign training which was pretty time-consuming but I haven’t finished it, so not til next week’s blog post…

Edit: one last thing I forgot!

Web Dev Hiring Poster

This is not something I was formally assigned to; I asked Maddy about it, got permission to sketch a draft, and got told to put it on hold until more concrete plans were in place. I may have gotten a little carried away, but I did have fun and get some good Photoshop practice in. Here’s how far I got:

Fingers crossed that the retro look isn’t considered too “off-brand.” Yes, it’s kitschy, but hopefully in a way would-be web designers can appreciate.

Blanton week 11

This week I worked on adding features images tot he blog posts, formatting the blog posts, and helping Asmita add alt text to all the images.

Alt Text

Unformatted blog post

Formatted Blog Post