After watching the video on Ira Glass, I came to see that his story that he is telling is talking about design and how it doesn't come to you out of nowhere. Its about how when you start off in design most of your work isn't as good as you might think. It takes a bunch of work to realize what your strengths and weaknesses are so you are able to get better. If you give yourself time constraints then it will bring you to work at a certain pace so that you can accomplish more.

He also talks about how your taste when you start off is really good. But its the fact of putting that taste onto a document that is the hard part of design.

I agree with these statements because I am a beginner designer. I think that my work is okay until I look at someone who has been doing it for years. With the more experience you have doing design, the better it will make you, and I think that with the more designs I do in class, I'm going to get better and better.

I think that my next design will be an okay one. I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I hope inspiration comes to me soon.

Avicii - Levels

Thoughts on project 2

I have really been struggling thinking of ideas on project 2. I think that its a fun idea to try and come up with a story and implement pictures into it to help tell that story. Right now I don't even know where to begin on this story, so I have been taking pictures of almost anything just to give me an idea. I looked at the link that was posted on the class blog and saw that the story doesn't really have to make sense, but I might want to make mine. Some of those stories were pretty funny and I would recommend for my classmates to take a look at one or two.

Thoughts on first Assignment

After learning a little about design and going over some famous designs,  we started our first project of the class. The task is to create a design with just our initials and wording in it, no photos. At first, I thought this would be a simple task, but after thinking about all of my options, I have changed my mind a couple times. I went with the idea of having two sides to me, a physical side that loves anything to do with physical activities, and a mental side that has to do with feelings and emotions.

I split up my project into a black side, being the physical, and a white side, being the emotional. Over these I have the opposite color font as the background. I also incorporated a short summary of me in the middle of the project, and a couple of my favorite prayers on the side. There are also some words describing me on each side. I cant wait to get it done this week and show the class what I'm all about.

(Had to put the Helvetica font because of the movie)