Extra Blog: Finishing Up

It's done. I'm graduating. Civil Engineering at CPP here I come. After this Evening Presentation, of course. I'm still quite lost on how/what to do, but I'll cross that bridge tomorrow. It's time to sleep for today.

Blog 22: Senior Project Reflection

1. I am most proud of knowing my slides. In only a few hours, I was able to create a presentation from nothing and remember almost all the information on it. I am proud of this because not many people can do it.

2. a. P/P-
b. P/P+

3. A lot of things worked for me. IC1, IC2, Mentorship, Research and Interviews all worked for me.

4. (ESA did not work for me at all.) I would have calmed myself. When I present, I speak really, really fast. So much so that when I speak, I cut off about a minute every 4-5 minutes. My original time was 47 minutes for this presentation. When I presented, I believe I was around 32-35 minutes.

5. Senior project has been helpful to me by giving me a deeper understanding of graphic design and it has helped improve my design skills greatly. In the future if I do end up becoming a freelance designer on the side, I know I will always have this project to thank for giving me so many skills in white space, typography and color theory that I can apply almost everywhere.

Blog 21 Mentorship

Literal

• Done
• Ron Martinez - His House (Covina, CA)
• Mimi Orth - Yearbook Elective (Strand's Room)

Interpretive

The most important thing I gained from my mentorship experience was knowledge of how to improve a design. With Mimi constantly coming to help me and the other designers, we got constant feedback on our spreads and kept consistency and a good design template. This was the most important thing I gained because it has helped me work better with others and allowed me to take a leadership role as head design editor and making sure that designs are kept consistent.

Applied

What I have done has helped me answer my EQ by giving me answers and hands on experience that can support those answers. I got my answer 1 from Mimi, answer 2 from Ron, and answer 3 partially from Mimi. I received a lot of mentorship experience that support all three of the answers as well as a possibility for more answers, but they did not apply to yearbook very well.