Graphic Design 4 Reflections
Workshop 1
Summary
Overall, this was a very interesting and challenging assignment to complete. I have never experienced working in a team of more than five people, let alone fourteen, so it was a bit hard to determine the dynamics of this project. Who completes that part? What color scheme do we go with? When should this be done? It was a lot of tricky communication and decision making. However, we managed to work everything out and ended up with a great application for college students called CampusBuzz!
I definitely think the limited amount of time we had to develop this app hindered the ability to make it the best it could be. If I were to redo this project, I would have less people involved to simplify the amount of communication there would need to be and definitely a longer period of time to complete it. I would also develop the features of the app a bit further such as the design of the timeline of blog posts and the logo. As a desktop app, it needs to have very simple and straightforward features, so other than the aspects I listed I would like to improve upon, I don’t think anything else really needs to be updated or else it will be too busy and complex.
Workshop 2
Three Alphabet Designs
Title Wall Proposals
Exhibition Brochure
Summary
Once I received Donald Deskey as my artist for the exhibition, I immediately began my research on him. I mainly noticed that his work was very modern and contemporary for the time period. He utilized many neutral colors in his pieces and played a lot with dark reds, blues, and black. After conducting research I knew I wanted my stylistic choices for the exhibition to mimic his work. I developed neutral, dark color schemes for the title wall and used a bold, sans-serif font for the title to push that modern aspect. His work is overall simple, yet makes a bold statement. This is the main inspiration I decided to run with for the project.
Workshop 3
Concept Sentence
“From meticulously crafted birthday cakes to personalized decorations, celebrating birthdays in this family is extremely important.”
Front Cover
Four Spreads
Full Book PDF
The site makes the PDF blurry, but if downloaded through the link it will be crisp quality!
Summary
It is a bit different summarizing this workshop over the other two due to the fact that it was held online and there were absolutely no in-class sessions. I found the process to be a bit harder and, even though I was able to email my questions or comments, I still struggled with certain aspects. With that being said, however, I really enjoyed the assignment given. It was a fun and creative opportunity for the class; we had the chance to really make this project our own during an unusual and uncertain time. If I had the chance to redevelop this book, I would love the opportunity to print my progress along the way and see how it would really look in a physical sense — I know that is a really important aspect when it comes to the creation of a book.
