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@roughcut15
ermergerd, we emerged!
Drop by anytime this week from 11am–8pm. Grab business cards and/or resumes from each designer’s booth. Don’t forget to also snag some awesome swag as you leave.
If you take some photos of Rough Cut, be sure to tag #roughcut2015.
We hope to see you!
10 GIFs to describe our dead week
Apologies for this very Buzzfeed-esque post, but gifs are the only way to describe our current mood :)
1. When the last round of thesis review is approaching
2. Realizing that next week is senior show and final thesis presentations
3. On the verge of a meltdown because there’s still so much to do
4. The Meltdown
5. When crying helps us slow down and obsess over the details of our show and thesis presentations
6. The IDGAF moment
7. Accepting that there are some things we can’t control
8. Even though this would surely happen if the plotter were to break while printing stuff for senior show. *knocks on wood*
9. Finding mojo again and persevering
10. Because we’re almost done with the madness.
To our professors: thank you for putting up with our loudness for the past two years and, most importantly, for imparting your invaluable wisdom on us.
20. ‘Tis the season to panic
As the holidays approach, we are busier than ever. Instead of looking forward to stuffing our faces with mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie, we will be locked in our rooms finessing our thesis, its process book, and its presentation. The majority of us will be thankful for our laptops, extra RAM, and auto-saves/auto-recoveries. With the deadline of our thesis project looming over our heads like an acid raincloud—yes, thesis is that painful—it’s a miracle that we’re still juggling our project and senior show.
Senior show is like the three kings who brought gifts to baby Jesus, but instead of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, we received stress, stress, and more stress. ‘Tis the season to be jolly? Maybe when December 12 rolls around. Joking aside, each designer is currently planning what to put in the show that will best showcase his/her work. Members of Exhibition team are hidden away in the workshop and building some awesome wayfinding.
If you’re interested in coming to our senior show, RSVP on Eventbrite (more info on our website: www.roughcut2015.com).
10 school days left.
Fresh from Almaden Press, here are our posters and mailers. You can grab a poster at our show on Dec 7! Check your mailboxes because we will be sending out mailers.
19. Do you want to build a show, man?
It’s morphin’ time for Exhibition and Operations teams. They are like Bob the Builder and Fix-It-Felix Jr. in that they assembled a 3D mockup of our displays for the show. They also printed wayfinding and the show’s designer profiles to see if branding is consistent and typography is readable.
Stick around, poster and mailer teasers will be coming soon!
More photos from the Class of 2015 :)
18. The Climb
Doug Hughmanick and Sean Paul Richards from ANML are the final guest speakers to come by and chat with us. Not only did they talk about ANML and its work culture, but they also touched upon the transition from student to employee. They imparted many nuggets of wisdom, but the most noteworthy was: “take your time figuring out what you want, and know your worth.”
In a way, this piece of advice will help each of us figure out what we want to display in our senior show that will best represent individually who we are. Exhibition team revealed the floor plan the other day and will be making a 3D mockup to help us better visualize how we will display our work.
It’s currently an uphill battle, but it feels like we’ll soon see the view from the top.
17 school days left.
17. Throwback to Class of 2015
Through thick and thin, we survived numerous obstacles from our first group project to this final hurdle that is the last semester of BFA. We’re loud, rambunctious, and dare I say, obnoxious at times, but when deadlines approach we get things done. Class of 2015 is comprised of 30 talented individuals. We came into the program as young bright-eyed students, who the Internet may call “fetuses.”
The support network we developed was the result of collaboration on school projects, spontaneous get togethers and trips, as well as other various activities: hot pot in the lab, Lake Tahoe trips, and Christmas parties to name a few. Whether 3 or 15 people participated in these activities, we solidified our ties.
In short, we solid.
16. Eye of the Storm
Our class weathered through a storm. Hurricane Thesis came and went, ruining sleep schedules and leaving many of us with extra strands of grey/white hair.
Marketing, Copy, and Web teams sailed through rough currents in the countdown to the big reveal. Web and Copy teams refined the senior show website, while Marketing team updated all social media to reflect the branding. The website is now officially live and you should check it out if you haven’t yet! It has a lot of riveting content and contains an eventbrite link you should use to RSVP if you plan on coming to see our show in December.
Meanwhile, Exhibition and Operations teams are measuring the dimensions for our show’s displays. They are also in the process of printing and producing deliverables Branding team made.
Amidst the chaos, alumnus Eddie Yuen, who currently works at Adobe, came by to give us advice on building great resumes. He left us with a piece of memorable advice: “do not mix up tools with skills.” Yuen says he looks at a candidate’s problem solving skills, design sensibility, and design taste, rather than proficiency level in Adobe products or other programs.
With one month left, none of us have jumped ship; we continue to battle through the squall. Things are about to get even more intense, so stay along for the ride as we bring you more content :)
15. Throwback to Studio Tours
Throughout the program, we were fortunate enough to visit various companies from Moving Brands to Facebook. A few of us even attended studio tours through the User Experience Association at SJSU. These were wonderful opportunities to see design in real-world situations/business projects. In a way, it motivates us to work harder so that we may one day be part of their teams.
The time has come! WE ARE EMERGING!
We are 30 emerging designers who were rough around the edges when we entered the BFA Graphic Design program at San José State University. After two and a half years of hard work and raw passion, we are ready to show what we can do. Come to our senior show to see the layers of our experience.
Learn how we got here at roughcut2015.com
14. Throwback to Fundraising
Fundraising is a means of raising money for our senior show because we’re poor students and building our senior show is quite costly. Our predecessors used to hold fundraising events through partnering with local restaurants, but we took the advice from one of our senior friends to sell buttons/pins. Shout out to Tommy Pham for this ingenious plan!
Our first fundraising event was in February 2013, around Valentine’s Day, and our second was in October 2014, around Halloween. You know, we need to play up those holidays. We didn’t expect such a positive response and large crowd the first time around. We planned on selling ten or eleven styles, but we printed more styles to widen our audience.
With the Valentine’s fundraising in our minds, we formally planned out the Halloween fundraising event. Even with our preparations for it, we still had to make more pins on the spot to appease the demand.
It’s safe to say that both events were huge successes and the money we earned eases the cost of the senior show a bit. More importantly, it was an opportunity to bond with each other.
13. Hustle & Bustle
Momo Cha, a graduate from the class of 2012, came by to give us advice about looking for design jobs and interviewing. She recommended that we apply to places that don’t grow our wallets but our worth and portfolios.
The second round of thesis presentations is just around the corner, and senior show planning is getting a bit hectic. Add on the task of revising our portfolios and creating our personal brands, and it seems like we should be drowning in our own tears; nevertheless, everyone has been hustling and we’re making progress. Web team is beginning to upload photos to the website. Copy team is swiftly editing our designer profiles for the website and writing copy for other applications. Exhibition team is measuring how big the project display will be to get a feel of how it will look like in the space. Branding and Operations teams are wrapping up the poster and mailer designs, and will be sending them out to the press soon.
Hold onto your hats because the big reveal is happening next week!
12. Throwback to Spartan Experience
As mentioned before, we took Experience Design and Motion Graphics in our fourth semester. In both classes, we partnered with San José State’s Marketing and Communications Department to reimagine the Spartan Experience and to create a video that showcases SJSU’s new identity.
David Schmitz (Courtesy of San José State University)
David Schmitz (Courtesy of San José State University)
The Spartan Experience is categorized into pre-enrollment, current-enrollment, and post-graduation. Our professor, Nelson Tan, reached out to Intuit and enabled us to have coaches who mentored us throughout the project. On the last day of the semester, we presented our solution in front of various faculty members, Intuit coaches, and our fellow classmates. Some of the proposed solutions are being implemented, which is exciting!
David Schmitz (Courtesy of San José State University)
David Schmitz (Courtesy of San José State University)
The videos we created are also in the process of being implemented. Creating them was a grueling process of filming and editing, but we received positive feedback about the results from our clients.
11. We’re Ready, We’re Ready
What a rare opportunity to have two guest speakers visit, both who are alumni of the BFA Graphic Design program. Here’s a memorable quote from Adobe Senior Designer Kent Huang: “Design always changes and you have to move along with it.”
Our second guest speaker, Marina Kong—Senior Art Director at HP—gave us insightful advice for interviews. She explained that employers look first and foremost for someone who is hardworking and whose personality will fit well with the team. She also recommended that if we choose a more corporate job that we do some “passion projects” on the side to stay fulfilled.
Senior show plans are picking up. We just had a photoshoot for our senior portraits. Don’t mean to brag, but we all look pretty fabulous in our black tops. Copy team is writing our designer profiles for the website, and web team is working on designing the best flow to present our content and story. Exhibition and Operations teams sent out donor letters, and are now figuring out the dimensions for wayfinding and exploring possible locations to display it. Branding team is knee-deep in patterns and textures, and is continuing to refine the applications.
Stick around, we got more fun stuff coming your way :)