Though I never made a post on my work hours prior I’d say that I am adequately following an appropriate work schedule on a project yet discussed online. Working on it at least twice a week for sessions of on average 4 1/2 hours and having in total at this point 40 hours working on it, it has been completed at an adequate pace.
Sophisticated work is not something that I would have ever described my work as in the past, but being made to ask myself this question, I would say that even still such work is still out of reach for me, and of the work that I view regularly I’m not sure what could even be considered ‘sophisticated’. My ability to analyze others work has not yet broken out of the simple lexicon that I am partial to using for a majority of the mundane activities that I do.
Work this semester in typography 2 I have made little use of my knowledge from the original except in the lessons on relation to space and format, as text and language have really only played a small part of the creative process on the only project that we have worked on this semester.
When making this project I am typically a little hesitant on the colors that I am choosing to apply to bring out the subjects, and the inherent messages with those colors. I have used colors and printed out things before, and have tried to think of what colors would make things pop in the past, but time and time again I don’t take something into account and end with a final version that I think would have been better in grey scale.
In significance in scale I would say the Bat Bridge Project from last year in which I made an app for the south congress st. bridge, and then the year before that, the examination of data and creation of many graphs about that data in a pointed manner. I would place this project in between the two with the bat bridge above and graph analysis below. The bat project as a final had to have many parts that all fit together nicely and a lot of extra creative work that on top of it made a cohesive whole. The graph analysis project more than anything was more a project on being able to analyze data more than it was the ability to present that data.This project is unique in that it considers motion more than the app ever did with things sharing a space a space that they rearrange themselves in under different criteria. Bat bridge is rated higher mostly on the fact that I got to spend a good portion of the time designing a mascot character for the project making it more enjoyable experience, while the graph project is rated lower because their wasn’t as much design and creativity with analysis getting in the way. This project might have been more highly rated if Fire Emblem: Three Houses had not also come out recently and devoured a good portion of my time the first week I got it.
While I agree that creative growth stems from experience from others I would not say that anyone except for myself is responsible for this growth. While the responsibility to grow is in myself I would say that encouragement for this growth does lie in others. My professor Tuan has played a small role in this simply through the act of making assignments in the way that he does, encouraging me to go back on work previously thought to be finished but with new eyes to make it anew and better than before. But the biggest encouragement comes from my friends as the have given me motivation to attend events and with the beginnings of a dungeons and dragons campaign completely created by myself they have given me entire worlds to build and hopefully share with the world. Showing up an hour early most days of class and getting right to work has proven to be a mostly effective means to stay on top of all that Tuan has given for me to do, and doing such simply because I was able to do so at such a time.
Tuan why does it seem as though you are not confident in yourself as professor, with your insistence on the first day that you were not a teacher simply because you did not have the same certification as one, and when you eventually do get that certification, if you get that certification, what about you will have changed about yourself now that is keeping you from this.