The objective of this assignment was to create a set of instructions by using the Pathfinder tool in Illustrator to decorate the Tungsten typeface and then draw the final product on posterboard using the Graphtec. The hardest part of this assignment was create a set of directions that somebody else could follow and properly replicate your own design but with their own creative touch. This project was frustrating because 1. We were plotting someone else’s design whether we liked it or not and 2. We were taught by each other to use the plotter so if the person who was selected to teach you incorrectly taught you something or didn’t feel like putting in the effort to explain it all, you were setback by somebody else which I think is unfair. My final print is a classmate’s design drawn using a metallic gold sharpie. I plotted the whole alphabet to get the extra credit however there were complications with the printing process, the design file has too many points on it which causes the Graphtec to have technical difficulties. I simplified the design as much as I could but the problems were not completely fixed because if I altered the design any more, I would not be following the original set of instructions. This was another frustrating setback I had to deal with because I was graded based on my print with somebody else’s design, not my own. I chose the gold metallic sharpie because I thought it looked nice with the design I was given, other than that I feel like I could not make many conceptual design decisions for the part of the assignment that we were graded on.