The Final Evaluation
In recent years, in a society where the Internet has become mainstream, the low awareness of sex discrimination in Japan just before the Olympic Games would be held, has become conspicuous. Therefore, I was investigating discrimination against women in Japan in my first research, but as I researched more, I knew the fact that even countries that are aware of sexism have not completely solved the problem. With these as an opportunity, my concept was not to "inform / make people aware of sex discrimination in Japan" but to changed to "a movement to create a world where women can live and act more comfortably". This means that I tended to focus on negative articles when dealing with the former topic, but the latter one had a lot of very positive and fascinating articles (such as the references I included in my research). In short, this research made me realize that I had a negative feeling about the word "female" without my knowledge. Instead of spreading the negative image, I wanted to convey the positive image of women to people. My concept, which was born in this way, changed to "encourage and support women."
The last unit took more effort to input and output ideas than ever before. I was trapped in creating an object and was spinning at the stage of preliminary research. Thanks to the great tutorial, I've noticed my mistakes many times. It took me a while to discover the connection between the final concept and the output, but I think it was done within the time I expected.
As mentioned above, I had a headache every time I had a tutorial. As I was idle for a long time, I was doing research and output at the same time. However, the tutors who would be patient listened to my presentation. I made a note of the advice I received at that time, understood it in my own way, and used most of it in my work.
I wish I could increase the layout repertoire of the process book a little more. Throughout all the units, I was conscious of improving visual design, including editorial design, so I thought I should know more accurately how to use InDesign efficiently and how to shortcut.
Through this unit, I learned how to create 3D illustrations with InDesign and kinematic typography with Adobe effects. I was also surprised that they are simple and can be combined to create more complex works. I realized that it was important to understand simple tasks, not to know the difficult things from the beginning.
I have some things that I finally understood through all the units so far. Especially when thinking about the concept, I thought that works that were complicated and took a long time to understand were beautiful, but visual communicators are not. The last some sentences will be in my process book.