Colours, Vectors and Illustrations
Numbers. Numbers, is that what life’s all about? Mathematicians would agree. Most economists might nod their heads. Engineers? Now there we are treading a thin line. For most engineers, it is the final product that matters. The look and the feel are as important as the performance. Interaction is as crucial as reliability. In short, design matters. So where were we? Numbers, right. Numbers probably matter if and only if the design’s right. The user’s experience is what will sell the product.
You might be wondering why are we telling you this? We had a workshop on design recently named Elements of Design (Fancy name. Wonder who came up with that). Here, this was our poster for the event.
Doesn’t it look good? Of course, it does. It was designed by us, silly. Keeping the borderline narcissism aside, let us tell you something more about the event. Shrey Sachdeva and Eashaankar Sahai were the ones at the helm of this ship. It was their commitment and love for design which pushed us to do this in the first place.
Armed with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, they imparted their knowledge to the participants. Important concepts were taught initially (Colour Theory, Typography, Layout Theory to name a few) followed by a dedicated hands-on session on Illustrator. What kept them going for such a long duration? Let’s hear it in Shrey’s words:
While I enjoyed every bit of it, my favourite part was seeing the concepts click with someone!
These two were truly amazing. Moving on, what’s the other thing that you liked about the poster? Did we cover our sponsors? No post-event report can be completed without thanking them. Where would we be without their support? We had some big guns this time; all credit goes to the Sponsorship domain. Grammarly, The Souled Store, Proxie, Coding Blocks and last but not least, Snapchat were our partners for this event. Besides, there were refreshments for the participants from Subway and Red Bull.
Mentors covered. Sponsors covered. Which stakeholder is left we wonder? The participants? Yeah, probably. They are very important. It is even more important that they tell us themselves what they liked (and more importantly, disliked) about the event, which is exactly what we did. We ventured out to Seerat Parmar and Shubhangi Singh who participated in the workshop. We also asked Purbasha Pan, Aditya Mukherjee and Muskan Gulati, who were involved for the first time in organising an event of this scale.
Here’s what they all liked
- The explanation of concepts
- The stickers and other schwags
- The refreshments
- The assistance provided when one got stuck
- The assignments and tasks
Here’s what everyone disliked
- The air conditioning (not surprised)
More likes than dislikes lead us to the conclusion that the workshop was a success. We wish it were that easy sometimes. But all good things must come to an end and so must this article. However, we cannot part ways before acknowledging the role of the people who worked day and night to organise this successful event. A few glimpses.
There were more but we couldn’t fit them all in one frame. Our photography team just texted us saying we did.
We began this with numbers and we shall end this with numbers because numbers are important at the end of the day. 8 hours, over 100 participants and last but not least, one family.
