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This image is a shot of my experience map that covers the journey to my masters degree. This map helped me see the difficult journey that I have been through, and everything that I have surpassed during that process. The overall map displays how I was feeling, what I was thinking, and what I was doing during each semester. After looking at this map, I can truly appreciate my journey, my progress, and determination I posses as I continue to peruse my dreams.
Mastery Journal Reflection
The course this month has been reassuring and informative, while still giving the students one last obstacle to go through before graduation. We not only were reminded of how much of an impact that professional standards, business practices, and design guidelines make on a professional designer, but also the client, the audience, and general public as a whole. A very important part piece that will definitely be utilized in the future of my career will be the guidelines provided by AIGA. These guidelines are essential in the development phase with any project, walking the designer through the dos and don’ts while producing work that respects all rights of the client, designer, and any third-parties involved in the project. Even when creating the experience map, it helped to put in perspective how tough and rocky my journey to the maters degree has been, but also all the things and obstacles that I have overcome along the way. After viewing the map, it is easier to appreciate all the work that I have done to get to the position I am in and being able to walk across a stage to get my Master next Friday. Being able to say that is a true accomplishment because not everyone finishes one degree program, while we have completed two full journeys to doing what we love and are passionate about. The last real thing this course has taught me is that everyone has struggles, but how we overcome those struggles is what truly matters and defines each one of us. Each individual has gone through their own set of failures and success that have gotten them to this point, proving to everyone and themselves that we have enough determination to get through anything. The moral of the story is to never doubt ones self because we have already overcome so much along the way and no matter how difficult life has gotten, we’ve chosen to move forward and surpass all obstacles.
The collection of photos are screen shots that have come from the major project for the course this month. This required each individual to choose a number of project to dissect, examine, and explain not only the final project, but the design process as well. Each photo has its own caption to quickly give the viewer insight on each page.
Mastery Journal Reflection
The Presentation of Design Solution course has been a real eye opener on how I want future clients and viewers to perceive me as a designer. This course forced us to also focus on every single aspect of our designs, from the actual piece, to the layout for our portfolio, to the description or story behind each. In fact, the book Stories that Move Mountains: Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations became a key piece that helped me get a deeper understanding of how to transform my designs and presentations of them into real stories that will give viewers a deeper insight on what, why, or how a project became the final product. Using the CAST model aids a designer in the planning process to make sure that all areas of the design have been thoroughly thought out to represent the company or client in the desired fashion. Even creating different ways to test out a designs effectiveness to ensure the final product will be successful, rather than unappealing and a failure. Worrying about the specifics like the sense of urgency needed, learning and decision styles to decide from, and how to further create the design to later test the effectiveness are key concepts that helped me further previously created designs into professional presentations that tell the viewer a detailed story. While Best brought to light the order presentations should be approached, while making sure to articulate the ideas and concepts behind the work being presented. With these two concepts, Best made sure to stress how much preparation for the presentation would be essential in getting the stake holders or client to understand and accept the project or product being presented. Not only does being prepared deal with creating, reviewing, and presenting, but also focuses on making sure to practice and go into great detail on point mentioned on the actual presentation. This can even be done with the help of note cards to follow, ensuring that the delivery has a more spontaneous and personal approach. Overall, the reading and concepts to consider this month helped me to further develop my Behance site, thesis presentation, and way to deliver my details in writing. After this course, I definitely feel more confident about how I have presented work done through the previous months and some freelance projects.
References
Best, K. (Oct 10, 2006). Design Management. AVA Publishing. Retrieved from SafariBooksOnline.
Sykes, M., Malik, A., & West, M. (Dec 17, 2012). Stories That Move Mountains: Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from SafariBooksOnline.
Mastery Journal Reflection
Throughout this course, I have noticed that the surveys that come behind a product or service take a more in depth thinking than initially thought. Not only do they have a tendency to be misunderstood or lack in the desired answers for the respondents, but tend to be long enough to make respondents not desire to complete the entire survey or questionnaire. While we were asked to create our own for any piece we wished, the process became more tedious with specific wording being a focus to make sure that each question would not be taken out of context. Although my results did not come exactly from the targeted audience, the responses helped in order to give me a deeper understanding of how my questions were being perceived, lacked the choice to answer the question in detail or just add another option to the list of choices, but also needed to provide images for the respondents just to aid them through the survey process and keep the focus of each question in light. Going into the future, I would love to create a bigger business following that I would be able to reach out to when needed for surveys in order to grasp better understanding of how the designs and projects are being viewed by the consumers and random potential clientele.
Mastery Journal Reflection
Throughout the course this month, the focus for me became understanding branding and how each platform relies on one another to build a successful campaign all the way through. Not only were my limits pushed on skills, but also knowledge on how viewers will be drawn to certain pieces and why. Even attempting to clean and build my portfolio in a more professional manner toward the desired appearance wanting to be given to the viewer, I have realized that the project difference and display from then to now are major. Going into the future, I plan to incorporate the concepts that were grasped into other projects, including one for building a new branding logo. Just as I have created a logo, website, and promotional video for the fictional event, I would love to get the same progress on my own site and brand. The key to this process became to focus on keeping a consistent feel overall that the previous piece before revision had lacked. And this is exactly what I need to pay attention to when it comes to progressing my portfolio.
The motion graphic is a five second clip that will be placed at the ending of the promotional video created for this concert event. This clip is introduced with the top text being written out, followed by the main word "Sea Turtles" sliding from above. The last two motions write out the last of the wording of the logo, while bringing in the waves, Sea Turtles, and call-of-action.
This is the final piece all put together with the logo, motion graphic, and video promotion to give the viewers a deeper insight on the concert event being thrown for Sea Turtles. This video is meant to attract the attention of young adults to older individuals that enjoy country or rock music, but also love helping the animals and their environment.
The concept for this project was to revise a previously designed logo, while creating a motion graphic and promotional video together for that brand using the revised logo. The client was a non-profit organization that is devoted in making a change in the name of Sea Turtles. Not only does this display show each piece separately, but also gives the view of them all in their final state. Above shows the design process in steps to help breakdown how the final product came about.
Mastery Journal Reflection
For this course, I got a real chance to focus on my work and how it is presented. This session is the first time that I have created a designed layout pre-posting on Behance and Tumblr. I know I have more work to do on how good the quality of the presentation is, but even with doing two different portfolio slides, the thought process of the whole layout was more developed. Another thing that I learned is that there are plenty of forms off inspiration, it is just up to an individual to find that inspiration within each platform or outlet. Going into the next four months till graduation, I want to make sure that I keep practicing on how to build the presentation layouts for Behance and other portfolio sites. Even being able to go back and create some for projects that have revisions already would be an excellent start for practice. The thing that I found to be the most difficult was how to use space throughout each of those designs. Some designs ask for more space than others and it is the job of the designer to make sure that the design is balanced by managing the space. Practice makes perfect and I am sure that practice would help develop my personal presentational standards or requirements.
This is a web layout that was created on behalf of a non-profit organization that is throwing a concert to help Sea Turtles. The genres chosen to go along with the event were pop, rock, and country. Above displays the explanations and design comps for better review. A Rockin’ Rescue: Sea Turtle Rock is the name that was chosen to represent the event and its’ cause.
Mastery Journal Reflection
This course allowed me to set schedule for the next few months, focusing on one project per two week time periods. I was better able to map out the whole process that I will be attempting to stay on schedule with in order to better myself, but also my portfolio as a designer. As a student, it is key to understand that in real project situations, time limits can be more extreme. So being able to grasp a good organizational schedule for the process one takes as a designer would allow them to work in a smoother manner. Going into the next course, I want to redesign the schedule created a little more to display a more direct schedule with details on tasks per day. Currently, the schedule only displays the main tasks for each weeks tasks, showing revisions and review due dates. While my health has been an issue the last few months, effecting both work and school, it is imperative to find a schedule that will aid me in attempting to care form myself while also completing everything needing to be accomplished in a timely manner. I have always been a determined person to accomplish everything I have put my mind to, so I cannot let anything stop me now with about five or six months to go. The goal for me on the path to mastery would be to just work on bettering myself, using the tools from each course to aid me. Even during the next two weeks of winter break, I plan to work on creating more professional looking posts to display my design work. I not been able to create a successful full display of the project as one piece and hopefully can develop a new approach to this process than the one being taken. Overall, this course has been very useful in just creating an insight to the next few months, developing a full plan to follow, and taking measures to accomplish these tasks. The successfulness of each one of us depends on the determination of each individual, and developing the schedule more with the tools given through this class will be the thing to keep me on point till graduation.
This post is the video brand presentation for Rainy Day Toys. The goal for this revision was to finalize the brand logo, then create a presentation to show to the company to explain the design process of the final logo choice created. This step was major because the previous video was long, emotionless, and did not explain everything to the listener. This presentation was smoother, clearer, and gave more insight into the logos creation process without reading straight from the slides.
This post displays the second and third versions of the logo created. From a three-dimensional appearance back to flat, the logo seemed to fit better for the overall brand, but also in alternate color formed vectors. The final version on the bottom displays a new umbrella design to help keep the layout of the flat version together.
This post displays the work done for the first revision in the two week process. The goal was to adjust and improve the brand presentation for Rainy Day Toys, beginning with making adjustments to the logo. These four logos were the sample set out for feedback. The bottom image is the original logo that was used to work on further, using a flat effect rather than the bevel and extrude used for the revised versions.
This month, we were required to create a motion graphic for a logo made for the above moodboard. Not only were we required to create a motion graphic, but also develop a 30 second promotional video that would give the viewer insight on the event that is being thrown. The video introduces the environment of Sea Turtles, fun, family, and the overall musical scenery of the event to create a inviting feel. The motion graphic is began with the words and waves, that begin moving in a similar formate of a flag. This helps to create a patriotic feel for the overall viewer and event. The motion is complimented with the sounds of the waves moving, leading into the Sea Turtle swimming towards its final position.
Mastery Journal Reflection
This month, there was a lot to learn about how motion and sound could effect the overall effect given to the viewer of a motion graphic or video clip. We focused more on the promotional point of view, researching how videos can go viral. This particular lesson helped to open my eyes on the real concepts to keep in mind when on a mission to create a viral or popular video world-wide. We created a motion graphic for a fictitious non-profit organization that strives to help defenseless animals around the world. We came up with a name of the event, created a logo and were required to create a motion graphic to fit along with the overall feel and attributes that the brand wants presented. After this, we created a 30 second clip that would create a voice for your brand, without any real voice being used. This helped me to focus more on the overall base, rather than the finished product. Even though the finished product that you strive to reach would be key to keep in mind, it is also important to make sure that even with certain pieces of the final are missing, that the point is still reached for the viewer. Throughout the next few months, even into my professional career, I feel as if this class helped me to want to experiment on future projects to continue practicing and perfecting my skills of creating motion graphics.