• Magazine Interview

    On Friday (9/29), I had the pleasure to have an interview with Jill Smith, who works at Insight for my magazine that I am building for class. Insight is a marketing comapny in Sioux Falls. She has been with the company for 14 years and I got to ask her some questions about the field.…

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  • Tour

    Today we took a tour at Panther Graphics. I learned alot about the process and what to expeact in the industry. It seemed really interesting. They print alot of things, from screen printing all the way to making catalogs and embrodery.

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  • HDR paper

    In photography we are learning HDR photography. After class on Thursday, a couple classmates and myself went to take photos for our assignment. We took photos around campus of the different buildings. I also am working on finishing a paper and presentation for my design class. We are in charge of talking about ” Putting…

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  • Week in progress

    This week so far…we have been working on 4 Ads for our magazine spread. I have chosen to do Nike, Slumberland, Jeep, and Ray Bans for my ads. We have also been learning Adobe XD and watching videos of how to work in there to put our apps together. I felt like I needed the…

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  • Filter

    In photography, we learned about different filters. When I look at a photo, I always wonder how they made it look a certain way. Eventually, I want to invest in filters if I do more photography. We also got an assignment to find a subject and shoot it blindly without looking into the viewfinder. Interesting.…

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  • Ads

    We finally finished our videos in layout on how to do a magazine. Now, we can move on to designing. We are working on doing ads: a half page and two-quarter page. I am thinking about doing an ad for Ray Ban sunglasses. For it, I’m thinking of making a beach scene with some sunglasses…

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  • What a week

    This week, so much has gone on. One having classes, two getting ready for my performances with the choir I sing with. In class this week, we worked on our two ad layouts that will be part of the magazine that we are building. We then learned a little about what our magazine layout should…

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  • Persona

    Earlier this week, we worked on gathering our info and making our personas for our app. We took our findings from the surveys and figured out about our apps.Now, we are working on sketching out our app and what it would look like and flow. Making the user face, etc.I also contacted Sioux Falls Skyforce…

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  • Sing your heart out

    Today, we are working on getting the info for our personas. I created a survey and posted it to a couple of pages on Facebook, and hopefully, people will take the survey to help me out.Besides doing schoolwork all the time, I have an outside life. Tonight I have choir practice. Last spring, I started…

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  • Presentation/Videos

    This week, I had to present to the class the rules of design. I was in charge of Rule 18: Look to history, but don’t repeat it.Then, in layout, we watched videos on design elements and how they fit into the design.

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