Month: June 2020

I decided to do my project on the city of Chicago. I have never been but I have been told this is a beautiful city.

• What did you learn?How to manipulate Text and images to create mail stamps.
• What was easy? Finding a topic, I thought of Chicago, because they are known for their sports, their food, their architecture.
• What was challenging? Finding Chicago’s history was the toughest part, I was thinking Obama would be sufficient because what he did was never done before.
• How could your submission be improved? I think I should have diversified my colors of my food slide.
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class? This would be better if you could do multiple stamps of one topic maybe, like I could have made 4 slides of the sports teams, or multiple of the food.
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios? Using color has a big effect on font, images and everything in the graphics department.
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?I saw this video of someone eating these Chicago hot dogs and it looked really good.

• What did you learn? I learned how to use the brush tool and many others aspects of the GIMP software, this application is helpful for editing images
• What was easy? Choosing my metaphor, I went with fork in the road because it doesn’t actually mean theres a fork in the road, it could mean that there are other ways to continue down the road.
• What was challenging? I had a tough time exporting the gimp file into Figma, once I realized that it had to be in PNG format I figured it out.
• How could your submission be improved? I think if I would have played more around with the fork on the road It may look cleaner.
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?I would open up the metaphors to anything, although it is still very easy to find a metaphor.
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios? In the future I will have to use gimp/ adobe photoshop to manipulate photos. This will be very needed. With more practice I will get better and better at it.
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you? My mom thought of fork in the road and I rolled with it.

• What did you learn? I learned how to use the draw feature and how to change the gradients of the images. Also the effect of color on your work.
• What was easy? I think it was rather easy navigating the different shapes this time around.

• What was challenging? I had a tough time figuring out what color schemes go together
• How could your submission be improved? If I would have played with the gradients a little more.
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class? I think this assignment was fair and right.
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios? Color makes a big difference in the images created. The effect is massive.
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you? I looked at a few of the older blog post for inspiration on what to do for this project.

Jack and Jill

What did you learn?

I learned the differences between the layouts and the start of how to manipulate Figma.

What was easy?

It was very simply finding a nursery rhyme to pick, I was thinking Jack and Jill from the start, it provides the best visuals.

What was challenging?

Deciding what lines of the rhyme were going to be what layout was the most difficult task. Also, it was rather difficult figuring out how to do figure ground.

How could your submission be improved?

Adding color would make the destination between Jack and Jill more obvious. It is a little tough to determine who is Jack and Jill at some points.

How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

I think this was a very fair assignment and was well described. I liked seeing all the other examples.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

This could work in designing logos or story boards, you really think about all the aspects of each line of the rhyme.

How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I found this book in my house, “The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury” In this book they had Jack and Jill and there was drawing along with them.