Semester Reflection

Projects

Name Typography

Our first project was a typography piece where we took an adjective of our name and created and searched for a font that matched the feel of our adjective. This project took us roughly two weeks to find create and mount our fonts and projects. Some challenges I faced were trying tome and be more creative than the original fonts. It was incredibly difficult coming back from summer break and having to open up my creativity again. I learned how to search more creatively and think outside the box of my original thoughts. Some of the feedback I received was mostly from my teacher, she pushed me to better myself and continue to think more creatively and to challenge myself. After my feedback I had to travel back into my fonts and search for more in depth meaning for the fonts and words we used. I throughly enjoyed this project, it was fun to come back from the break and to be pushed hard to better myself and my creativity.

Hand Written Typography Card

Our second project was a hand written greeting card. This project also took us another two weeks. Another one of the challenges I faced again in my font style, and I didn't extremely differ the font I was using. I was still trying to better myself in my font use and my font style, I used a different font style that matched my project. I just needed to work on differ my idea and font because that was the main idea on the project. The feedback I was given was from my teacher and my classmates, my classmates liked my idea and loved the roses, my teacher again pushed me to better myself and pushed my to become a better graphic artist. She wanted me to concentrate on the font style and the layout, she also helped me better place my roses into the font rather than next to it. I lived this project also, we had freedom to choose what we wanted to do and how we wanted to execute it. On top of that I got to show my love for roses in my project because it matched the cards feeling.

Fictional Branding A Company-NT Jewelry

Our final project was to make a fictional brand for a company. This project was inspired by 4 different things we were given, they were an animal, a number, two letters (mine being NT), and a mineral. This project took us three weeks. I faced a lot of challenges, in my past few years I have rarely touched photoshop. So when I had to lay out my logo onto my company store, or the merchandise. Even onto the uniform of my company it wasn't the easiest, I had to again edit my project to make sure these things when how I wanted them too. I learned a lot with photoshop and my layout process. I was given a little feedback on my process, it was mainly from those sitting next to me on little tips for the layout process and the designing. I only changed things when I asked them on how to do certain things. I enjoyed this project, I actually ended up going home and speaking with my mother and father about the project. 

Self Review

Time Usage

My time use in class i would consider very well spent except for my first few days, at the start of the semester i was watching YouTube, etc. in class, and it was a terrible use of time. However after that i felt like i devoted myself to my projects fully. Even if i felt like i was done, id always ask for advice or ways to better my work. If my classmates didn't have any advice then i went to my teacher, if nothing was there i continued to better my mock-ups and project presentation on behance this year. Outside of class this year i worked with a few in school projects for other classes or people that needed them. including helping a group in the video department of e-comm and helping h.y.p.e. with their open mic poster. 

Strengths and Weaknesses

I think that i have two major strengths and weaknesses as a graphic designer. My strength i think would be hand drawn projects, such as the roses, in which i had the ability to do what i wanted when i wanted to do it. However my major weakness would have to be finding the right font, i personally struggle with the understanding of font and weight in groups of text, however i'm working on it.

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Summary

The thing i would have to say i loved most about this semester was finally getting to mount our final project after spending a lot of time on it. This semester i think i should've definitely spent my first few days in class more wisely and not trying to push the limits of what i could do. My over all learning from this semester would have to be my growth in all the areas from typography, to font choice, my improvement in Photoshop and scanning things in. My goal for next semester is to use my time more wisely and better myself on font choice. Overall i think this is the most fun ive ever had in a graphic design class ever. Ive defenitly learned more with my teacher than any other has ever taught me.