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Brochure and STA Crest

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Value Institute Brochure

These past two weeks, the focus has mainly been on my assigned service center project, a brochure for the Value Institute at Dell Medical School. So far, I’ve imported all the copy and most of the photos, and I’m working on getting the layout straightened out. This project is a good refresher on publication design, my favorite area of design, so I’ve been enjoying setting type styles and utilizing grids and columns. Here are some spreads:

STA Crest

I’m responsible for designing the poster for the project team STAs. I’ve enjoyed learning more about what they do, and I’ve discovered that they are the ones keeping LAITS classes running for students, quite the important task. Here are a few drafts for the crest.

 

Week 3

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Remote Studios Poster/Logo

Completion status: September 20
STA team members: De’Sha and Leilani
To be completed: TBD

I went and shadowed one of the Remote Studios STAs, Avery, last week and that was really insightful! Since then I’ve been working on the poster/logo for Remote Studios. The logo here is more of a mock up than anything, and this hasn’t really been through a feedback round yet, by the way! The logo I was planning on making a bit more detailed for each camera image. Colors aren’t quite right yet.


 

Redefining Health Care Summit Logo Updates

Completion Status: Started on September 22
Staff Guidance: Maddy
To Be Completed: September 27

In my extra time I’ve been working on changing the text on this logo from “Barcelona 2022” to “Barcelona 2023” and exporting different file types of those — next I’ll be exporting both of these in black and white as well!

 

Week 3

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Week 3

(9/21)

Boat Recolor

I was asked to recolor a boat.ai and boat.gif for Maddie and Marianne. There were three suggested colors, so I just made 3 versions of the boat (options!).

Recoloring them was pretty simple, and I also learned a bit more about Adobe After Effects in the process. Recoloring in AI was simple, but AE required some more digging, but in the end it came out very clean!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(9/13 – 9/20)

Design Fundamentals: History and Styles

This past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a basic training assignment in my spare time. I learned more about different historical art movements and was tasked with designing a graphic in my preferred movement. I chose Bauhaus because I liked the geometric shapes, and I recognize it from my past Art History courses. I first followed the Youtube tutorial link so that I would know how to create Bauhaus-like shapes and text. Then, I created my own graphic based on what I learned. I made it about the upcoming album release of one of my favorite artists, 5 Seconds of Summer. Although alongside the tutorial-based poster, mine appears more minimal, I think it contains just enough elements to be identifiable as derived from Bauhaus.

 

 

 

Week3

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WEEK 3

Project: STA Design Team Poster

Start: September 13th 2022

To be Completed: September 29th 2022

Staff Guidance: Valerie

The detailed shadowing of the Design STA Team:

  1. We focus on communication. We care about each other and give feedback on others’ works to boost better design.
  2. We are flexible and chill at balancing our time during working. We don’t have to focus on one assignment or training at a scheduled time but organize our time by ourselves.
  3. We have critical eyes and design thinking which vary from each other.
  4. We’re mainly working with computers (plenty of software!)
  5. We collaborate with each other. Design STA has individual projects and group projects. Collaboration enables our STA  to expand their horizons by simply hearing out other people’s ideas. We can discuss our designs in the weekly STA meeting to examine if there is any point we have missed.

Realizing the classical sports world cup design might not fit for the design, I redesigned the trophy in an abstract way. I decided to use geometric figures to represent the sense of designers. I also attached the STA design team logo, LAITS logo and year to ensure the integrality as a final draft in procreate. Here are the final outcomes:

 

Then I started the formal draft in Illustrator. I first used the Mask tool in Photoshop to get Everyone’s portrait.

To make the poster have a more designer vibe, I’d like to emphasize the brush stroke as the background for each Design STA bust.  I found brush stroke png online and photoshop them to paste under each STA.

However, it’s a little bit messy when the colorful bust is attached on a bright yellow so I tried the black&white and add broader, Eventually, to ensure the overall layout looks super clean, I sketched out the white silhouette as the broader for such STA. As I have used the textualized brush stroke as a main object in the center, I decided to make it more vintage and papery style in its background (folded paper) and the (hand-drawing) trophy design. However, I try to figure out if there is anything to include more coding and web elements into the layout. So I might insert the mouse-arrow icon into the poster somewhere.

What I developed in Illustrator for the mouse-arrow icon:

 

 

Project: CTX Refold

Start: September 21th 2022

To be Completed: N/A

Staff Guidance: Maddy, Suloni, and Marianne

On Wednesday, I attended the first meeting of CTX Refold for Dr. Gordo with Maddy, Suloni and Marianne. This is my first time attending the client meeting as a note-taker. It’s a Refine-Web-Design project for Retelling Central Austin History. During the meeting, we summarize several goals such as organizing the content orderly, resetting the color palette, and defining its aesthetic-driven style to appeal to the engaged audience. I’m assigned to create a light mode design fro CTX Retold in Figma. I browsed on Figma Tutorial in KB and started to wireframe the site.