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Humanities Banner

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Humanities Banner

I got a small assignment last week to create a new web banner for the Humanities Institute and upload it to Cascade. I made a few drafts in Illustrator with the institute’s new logo.

The drafts are either solid or textured or blue or gray. The texture is the ball-and-line element from the logo faded almost all the way into the background to add depth and dress up the banner a bit. The color version of the logo’s dom color is blue (hence the blue option) and the grayscale version was provided to give some options.

COM 302 Intro Animation Evolution

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COM 302 Intro Animation Evolution

I was working a lot more on trying to get the intro animation right. I wasn’t too happy with how the first one came out because it felt empty and underdeveloped. I did another version where I add more icons to the same frame so it feels more full and then onto the title slide as well. From there I realized it could use a bit more color and movement throughout so then I did version three. Maddy gave me feedback on coloring for the ribbons, keeping the time short, speeding up the last frame, so that’s what I did. the last video in this sequence is what I sent over for the professor to preview.

 

 

 

 

CC303: Studio & Course Graphics

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CC303: Studio & Course Graphics

For this project I had to create a new set of graphics for the Liberal Arts course CC 303: Introduction to Classical Mythology. I was tasked to create 7 different deliverables from three different categories as listed below, mostly in what we identify as Style B and for the buttons, the square designs.

 

Category 1 – Canvas Graphics

1. Dashboard graphic
2. Homepage banner
3. Buttons in all standard options

Category 2 – PPT Slides

1. Course Title Slide
2. Lecture Segment Slide

 

Category 3 – Studio Set

1. Digital Backdrop
2. Desk Skirt

 

For the colors. the instructor did not seem to have a preference so I sticked to the official UT branding color palette. Additionally, I was given two assets to work with. One of them was the official branding for the department of Classics, and the other was the following image:

 

 

Additionally, I was tasked to work on the PPT deliverables before anything else and as soon as possible. So, I got down to business. My original attempt at all of these designs had a blue text box, but that didn’t quite work. So, as suggested by a fellow STA, I changed that to sandstone color from the secondary UT color palette.

Here’s how the PPT turned out:

 

 

And here’s a look at everything else, through the course graphics design menu…

ECO 304L Animation

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ECO304L Final Animation

I finally finished the entire animation for the ECO304L course. It consist of 3 different types of currencies folding into different origami shapes. This project was difficult at times to figure out how to mimic how the shape folds, but I really enjoyed creating it. I was able to go beyond my own creativity and do something completely different.

 

 

ECO304L Design Assets

After I completed the animation, I worked on the course graphics for this course. These assets are from the style B template. Since the theme of the animation was different currencies, I wanted to also use that in the course graphic. Therefore, I used an image of different currency bills rolled up. I also used the same blue color in the graphics like in the animation.

ECO304L_powerpoint

Updating Icons for Portfolio

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Hiya blõg today I created some icons to be put in an infographic portfolio that will be shown to clients. Here are the original icons, we initially got these from The Noun Project:

 

To create updated graphics, I combined shapes and line paths in illustrator, like so. The first image shows the ellipse and triangle that I combined to make a fish:

Maddy and I decided on doing curved corners for all the graphics, here’s the finished product! :

Loooved doing this honestly, icon creation is so fun because there’s no one right way of getting to your finished product 🙂