Over the past two years, I feel that I have grown as a graphic designer because I have learned more about InDesign, Illustrator, and After Effects. I gained knowledge on how to use more tools and specifically in Illustrator I feel that I better myself using vectors on every project. I transferred to St. Edward’s with a very basic understanding on these programs and now I can say that I have improved my skills and I have learned to think beyond the standards in order to fulfill the requirements for my projects.

The Symbol Methodology project was very significant to me because is where I can see a big jump on my skills of using the pen tool and pathfinder on Illustrator. This project taught me how to work with pathfinder and I learned to look closely for kinks on my symbols. It was a challenge to me to think abstract in order to come up with symbols but then I learned to keep massaging and iterating the idea until it becomes abstract. This project shows my improvement from the Typeface Design because for that project I did not pay attention to details or look for mistakes and now I take my time to work on my projects in order to check every detail and in case there are kinks, redo the work until there are no mistakes.

 

• Symbol Methodology

 

The other project that shows my improvement is the Weather Report. I have learned how to make better decision for my layouts, choosing the right typeface, and having multiple information on one frame but keeping it clean and legible. I also feel that I have grown on how to choose a color palette and comparing this project to the Typographic Poster, where I used the rainbow colors, I believe this project shows my progress. This project helped my skills on how to work with motion on After Effects and how to transfer a file with multiple layers from Illustrator to After Effects. The challenge that I always confronted was to keep information organized and I believe I achieved that on this project.

 

• Weather Report