Day 19 12/2/09

Jimmy started the class later than usual so I got to learn about my neighbor a bit more than before. Jimmy then started talking about the course objective, what we were supposed to get out of it. Many of the things we covered but some were just lightly touched on. I thought this class as I experienced it from the beginning, was very interesting and different from what I've had before. A lot of the things I've learn I found very useful for future reference or a new way to approach a problem.

infuriating
infamous
superb

Day 18 11/30/09

The theme this time was about presentation and story telling. Each of us had to get up in front of the class and tell two facts and one lie about ourselves. The goal was to fool the class about the lie, to make it sound like a fact. Some people were not successful and a few people were great at tricking the class. I thought it was a great exercise because it made us aware of how we present ourselves. Little things like body language make an impact on the audience and I was able to catch some lies from judging the details from the person. After this exercise, we moved on to storytelling. Most people, including myself, did not tell very interesting stories. Some stories did not even have an ending and just ended. In this class session I learned many things in regards to presenting oneself. Little quirks such as placement of hands and swaying in place create a reaction from the audience. It would be helpful to practice presenting and recording it to see what minor flaws we each could change.

Morbid
Painstaking
infinite

Day 17 11/25/09

Jimmy gave us a break from class so we were not required to come. He had suggested a field trip to get our minds moving to help us with our final projects.

I took a trip down to San Diego driving for 3 hours because I took a longer route than necessary. As I drove I was thinking how could I explain my thought processes. I was planning to use cardboard and create 3-D objects but it would take too much time to make in the way I wanted to. As I continued driving, I decided to make my project on paper. When I reached San Diego, my theme had hit me; I knew how I would approach the project. The field trip to San Diego helped a lot.

amused
immense
splendid

Day 16 11/23/09

Jimmy told the class a story today and when he finished, he asked us what did we see. He then gave us time to draw what we saw from the story he told. I drew a boy with large claws because the previous night I was reading a book regarding human protectors and destroyers with large claws so it was on my mind. We then took our homework out and place our three sketches next to our creative briefs on the tables. Once again, Jimmy had us rate each others ''best'' one. He then gave us our final project and Wednesday off to go on a field trip.

Dynamic
I remember a teacher from my high school who always stressed these two words.
Concise
Convincing

Day 15 11/18/09

In this class Jimmy gave us some information on graphic design in the real world. He used an example in creating a club and would the club need. He went over things like logos, name of the club, target audience, competition, and other related aspects. He mainly covered creative briefs on how they work and how the help. He then showed us some examples of creative briefs, to give us a visual idea of how they look like. The homework he assigned for our three sketches was to make a creative brief for them. After this class, I found out more about the guidelines and other small details that clients give the designers.

inquisitive
magnificent
fresh

Day 14 11/16/09

We presented our 20 sketch ideas we did for the homework assignment. We also talked about the Kim Baer presentation. Jimmy asked each of us to say something that stood out to us from the presentation but we could not repeat what a previous person said. When we had to present our sketches, we had to select one of the twenty and explain about it. Then Jimmy had everyone rate it by a show of hands if we liked it, thought it was okay, or not good.

annoying
defiant
grumpy

Day 13 11/11/09

On this day it was Veteran's day so we did not have class.

I went to the Kim Baer presentation on Thursday. I thought that much of what she talked about was really informational and helpful. She mentioned she took on many projects she was not qualified to do but learned as she progressed. She said that execution is more important than perfection and also not knowing was not an excuse. I thought how it was amazing that she took up the projects which had things she was not familiar with and became good at it. It showed how going out of our comfort zone could help us learn many things we would not have learned otherwise.

Descriptive
Diligent
Adaptable