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Week 3/2 – 3/8

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UTFC Logo Design 

Project: Connexions Francophones Logo
Notes: This time around for the UTFC logo I was trying to add a textured look to the design on procreate. I’m using the Dry Ink brush on Procreate, which is what a previous STA used to create the other icons for UTFC. In my opinion, I think it contains too much detail within the texture. I could opt for a solid line with a textured stroke but I’m also worried that it would look blurry rather than textured if the logo size was altered.

UTFC Management

Notes: I’ve been mainly focusing on UTFC management and getting the hang of assigning STAs tasks for the UTFC textbook. Here’s a progress checker I made to stay organized on what’s finished and what’s not.

 

STA Poster 

Project: Spring 2023 STA Presentation Poster
Due On: ???
Notes: This week, I’ve been focusing on finishing the STA presentation poster. Thanks to everyone’s help with photo editing I have been able to insert all of the STA photos accordingly. I’m now adding little knick-knack stickers of what’s representative of each team and polishing the overall poster!

Week 19

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UTFC City Image Search – Lifou

Client /Prof: 
Completion Status: Started on Mar 1
STA Team Members: Lelani
Complete by: Mar 8 (?)

Last week I was assigned another picture searching project for the French textbook project, this time finding images that represent the Lifou island. Here are a few of the images:

 

Course Graphics Animation Training

Completion Status: Started on Jan 27
Staff Guidance: Valerie
Complete by: March 6

Finished up a draft of my course graphics animation training! https://utexas.box.com/s/lfrl9vhry75l9o712nkyf4qeahm5inbh

 

UX/UI with Figma Training

Completion Status: Started on Mar 6
Staff Guidance: Valerie
Complete by: TBD

Started working on my UX/UI design training, so far it’s been pretty interesting! A part of the training is to design a 3 page site for a fake client, and I’m choosing to make a site for a flowers saleswoman. Below is the my layout plans for the site, and then a screenshot of my current progress.

Week 9

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Week 9

 

 

This week I will continue on the Texas Beyond History (TBH) Git workflow documentation. After playing around with Adobe Dreamweaver and getting used to the Git GUI built into it, I finished the “rough draft” of the documentation. This week I will mostly focus on getting feedback and making the appropriate changes.

 

I have never written a Git Wiki before so to avoid making a mess of the repository Marianne created for TBH I so I forked it.

 

However, I also did not know that you could not merge a Git Wiki from a fork in the original repository 🙂

 

 

 

I decided on writing the Git Wiki across two pages

 

 

 

Wiki on Texas Beyond History

(in progress)

Week LXV

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Week LXV

For the first time ever, I forgot to update my blog last week! That’s how busy I’ve been!

GSD Course Posters

I had just about wrapped these up by the time of the meeting last week. I ended up completing around half of them myself.

After we compiled all the pdfs into one folder, I edited the instructor names and course times onto them. It was a good test of adobe acrobat’s pdf editing capabilities. Editing text is very straightforward, and images can be edited too, though replacing them might be harder for collages. The idea is that professors and faculty can edit their own promotional materials for future semesters.

We have 5 courses to modify into screen ads, but Maddy is working on a template for that.

UTFC

So, I don’t have as many fun pictures for this, because the most time has been put into unraveling the logistical issues behind the pictures. It turns out, we may need to redo somewhere between 2,000 and 17,000 images due to copyright conflicts. That will be some fun logistics. I did learn a lot about creative commons licenses in the meantime!

Screen Ads

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Summer Marketing

Final $500 Screen Ad Export

Project: Summer Marketing Screen Ad for $500 courses
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Started Feb
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Final export for $500 courses screen ad.
To be completed: Mar. 1

The screen ad is also finished! The last edits here consisted of updated the courses graphic to only include $500 courses (subliminal messaging at its finest!). Keep an eye out for these ads at the WCP and the Union!

Summer A-frames (the final blog update)

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Summer Marketing

Final A-frames

Project: Summer Marketing A-frames
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Started Feb
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Description: Final export for A-frame graphics.
To be completed: Mar. 1

The A-frames are done! The last-minute edits mainly consisted of adding the $500 course sticker and checking all the QR codes to make sure they were going to the proper link.

Summer23-SpringAframe-english

Summer23-SpringAframe-general

Summer23-SpringAframe-gov

Summer23-SpringAframe-his

Summer23-SpringAframe-minors

Summer23-SpringAframe-psy

Summer23-SpringAframe-soc