Today we had some faculty come in and do their pecha kucha presentation and I was able to analyze and summarize what they had to say. Professors said that we could use todays seminar as an extra credit post.
Jimmy Luu
Jimmy is a graphic designer and titles himself as a designer with multidisciplinary issues. He hopes to be someone that makes new things and thinks about them. He designs mainly on books, types, and letters. At St. Ed’s he runs the risograph lab. He closed his presentation with saying he wants to construct the world in which he wants to inhabit in.
Tuan Phan
Tuan discussed his process of a project and Z Fest that helped CommandG students. Most of his brainstorming and analyzation was put in his sketchbooks. He used content, sketches, doodles, ideas, and poster ideas. He also has a lot of notes on commentary in society and people. One project that I thought was really cool was the 1000 postcard project and how it helped Tuan with quick creative thinking skills.
Kim Garza
Kim is a Graphic Design professor at St. Ed’s. She says that being curious is good as a designer and that being open and asking questions as a learner is good. One of her projects was designing an app on travel discoveries. Kim has strong passion in her work because it deepens the meaning of your work. Many of her works show her passion on certain subjects and material going on in the world today. Her overall goal basically is finding wonder and passing that wonder on to others
Rob/BRYANT
Rob was and still is nspired by old fashioned video games: Atari VCS, Pinball, Pong, Ladder. He received his first computer after college that only had text, but it was okay because he was a writer at a time. He went to film school and wanted to be a film writer, but always loved video games. He later realized that he didn’t want to have a job during the day and then his career/passion. Later, he wanted to integrate them. Along the way, he still constantly played up to date video games in order to stay caught up. Eventually, Rob worked on first big game with his new company: pinball arcade on xbox, and it was successful.
At the very end with the Q&A’s, there was a lot of inspiration from all of the guest speakers. For example, not all ideas happen in one brainstorm, it takes time. Also, they provided ways to come up with ideas whenever we are feeling dry or unconfident. Overall, the whole seminar was very useful and I also now have an idea of what to do for my pecha kucha presentation.