Jay Soo’s Journal Entry 5

Jay Soo

10/09/13

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I arrived at work today earlier than my clock-in time, as always. My first thought was to finish the project given to me last time, which was to redesign a layout of the City Tech logo on a background filled with pictures. Before I could even reconnect to where I left off last week, my supervisor called me over to his office. I went quickly and was given a new task: to redesign a gift certificate. I could tell the design was bad from first glance; there was no grid, the lines were extended without reason, and the visual was unnecessary dominant. Overall it was just bad.

I figured I should prioritize on my new task over my last one, I didn’t know why, but I just felt it was right. So I did a quick edit, did some research on the web and showed my supervisor. He gave me some feedback about the color and visual graphics, so I continued to edit.

Yue Chan and his intern did their own project and I went to watch because I was interested. They were doing something called “Banana Republican”; I thought it was really witty. Yue sprayed some bananas with red paint and did a photo shoot of a red banana with “Republican” letters attached to it. It was hilarious.

Anyways I finished the gift certificate and showed it to a beautiful lady called Jessica, who introduced me to her daughter. She looked very young, I would not have thought she was a mother.