Posts By: katestanke

Hi guys, Stella Mae here, designer extraordinaire alter ego of Kate Stanke, back with another blog post about the wonders of creative PR Publications. This week in my PR Pubs course, we started a new track course: working with Photoshop. The last time I had worked with Photoshop was in my Yearbook class at McKamy […]

This week, I got the opportunity to interview Stella Mae, my designer alter ego whose most beautiful masterpieces are created in Gaylord’s PR Publications class. I got to sit down with Stella this afternoon and discuss her latest project: a letterhead for the infamous brand lululemon. Kate: So, Stella, for your latest project, where did […]

This week in my PR Publications class, our main assignment was a seemingly simple one: choose a company and then create a likely business card for it. I decided on Lululemon, one of my favorite stores (though, admittedly, its the only store I ever truly splurge in). This was our first real assignment in class, […]

This week in my PR Publications class, I had a striking revelation: I am not good with Photoshop. I don’t know why I thought that all the “experience” and “expertise” I had gained from working with Adobe software in middle school yearbook would benefit me whatsoever in a college course, but its safe to say […]

Greetings, earthlings! This post will help out some of my fellow PR majors with some important fundamentals we face when writing. Writing with Clarity Poor: Bobby cooked a meal for the cat of shrimp. Better: Bobby cooked a meal of shrimp for the cat. Reducing Clutter Poor: All of the invited guests sat down at […]

This week in my PR Publications class, what caught my attention most wasn’t the addicting typography online games or learning how to deconstruct designs. No, what intrigued me most was that the most important rules of graphic design are CRAP. Literally. They are literally CRAP: Clarity, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. It definitely says something about […]

Hi everyone! My name is Kate Stanke. I hail from Flower Mound, Texas, a suburb about 30 minutes north of Dallas. I’m a sophomore studying Public Relations, a passion that I developed my senior year of high school. While visiting Chicago (where I was born), I got to talking to my mom’s best friend from […]

As a college student, life can often seem hectic and disorganized. I like to compare it to swimming through a shark-infested ocean and somehow not losing any limbs. Since I am a very type A personality, and am someone who craves organization and structure, this is something that stresses me out immensely. However, I have […]

I am a firm believer that there is nothing more comforting and peaceful than a good, old-fashioned coffee shop. Starbucks has wonderful muffins and pumpkin spice lattes, but the constant hustle and bustle along with the sleek, modern feel the global conglomerate supplies with its customers is not everyone (and its certainly not for me). […]