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.

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. I am doing my mentorship at school during elective with Mimi Orth when she comes in every other Tuesday and helps us out with the yearbook spreads and hopefully soon with Ron at his home just learning his process and looking at some of his work and showing him some of mine.

2. Mimi Orth, Herff Jones Sales Representative, and Ron Martinez, a freelance designer.

3. 23 Hours and 30 Minutes.

4. For my summer 10 hours of mentorship, I went to yearbook camp. During the classes when I was getting lessons from the various teachers and Mimi, I was improving my designing skills and helping my fellow yerds in making the theme for this year, Today I.
For the other hours I have completed, Mimi has come in and helped us make the yearbook look better, giving us an outside perspective.

5. Aight, yo.

Summer Mentorship Component

Literal
1. Mentorship Log
2. Mimi Orth
(626) 798 1680
3. What questions did I have during the mentorship?

• How do you choose what type of fonts work well with each other and what how can you identify legibility without needing to print?
• How can one successfully integrate different forms of type in their designs to help a reader in diminishing the 'fear' when seeing large blocks of copy.
• How can you design photo packages that not only help with the flow of the page, but also don't draw away from the impact of the dominant photo?
• When receiving critique, how do you decide which elements stay and which change based on critique?

Interpretive
4. Graphic Design is a job that is far more difficult than people seem to imagine. Countless hours of hard work go into designing some of the best looking ads, magazines and yearbooks. Inspiration is key in making a design and you should ALWAYS have some sort of inspiration rather than designing out of your own head unless you are the next GD prophet (Pro-tip: You probably aren't.)

Applied
5. Graphic Design has interested me ever since I learned how to use Adobe Photoshop during my Sophomore year. Since design interested me so much, I learned about GD in magazines and in different publications and joined Yearbook to test my skill. I was introduced to Adobe InDesign which I became proficient in. I still have much to learn, but Graphic Design is definitely a field which I am thinking about as a side job. (Pay is far too low for my goals.) This mentorship helped me improve my skills and lock in this topic for my Senior Project.