Journal Six

     Yesterday was a fairly busy day at work.  As usual, I had to cut boards and mount things in the morning.  When I wasn’t busy with that, I tried to work on homework for my Web Three class.  Later, I was given another scan and print job.  You have to scan items, retouch and clean them up in Photoshop if necessary, and then print them.  Once again, I couldn’t do it by myself, and it started to drive me crazy.  Later though, I was given another job with it, and finally, after looking at the different interfaces and options on the set up section of it, I understood how to do it.  Fortunately I was finally able to do this job correctly by myself.

There wasn’t a lot to do in the afternoon, and I spoke a bit with two of the people who work there.  I guess it can be a good idea to be somewhat sociable, though you don’t want to overdo it.  The office in general though, is a sociable place, and people often congregate in the manager’s office and joke and laugh for long periods of time.

I have to be careful in this area because I tend to either isolate and talk to no one, or go to the other extreme, and joke around all the time, and almost forget that I am at work.  I also am more than capable of bringing up subjects which may not be appropriate, (such as politically controversial topics), and have to be careful in this area.

On October 4, 2013. I continued testing my design. My goal is to make my design look like a real motherboard/CPU, instead of just a clip art. This is my first time working on a design with a metallic effect.

On October 7, 2013. I showed my supervisor, Yue Chen my motherboard design, and he said it looked okay. The design didn’t look like a motherboard, but it did have metallic effect and the concept of New York City College of Technology in charge, and controlled of all majors.

Later, my supervisor asked me to meet at his office, and he had assigned me a new assignment. The assignment was to design a t-shirt on the topic of leaking at Fukushima again. Last time, he had asked me to use the Fukushima’s site or nuclear plant to show the leaking. This time, he had asked me to use the Japan flag and Fukushima’s map to show the leaking. My goal is to come up with ideas using these graphic elements.

I had picked the best two designs to work on the Illustrator. The design was a red circle as the Japan flag, and the shape of a Fukushima map to show the location of leaking, and drips turn into a shape of a nuclear bomb explosion.

A week has passed now and I get an email from the company and it states that I’m going to be working on a new project with them. So we set up a meeting and there they tell me about what the client wants and deadlines. The job was to create an identity for a new app called iSeecolors that detects color. So they gave me the job to create buttons and user interface screens. While I was doing that something told me to try and create a logo for this app. So after I created the buttons and user interfaces screens. I started playing with logo ideas. After 2 days of creating different Ideas. One really stood out. I then told them that after I was done with the work they gave me that I had also done a logo for them. So I emailed them the work and they were so happy with my work and that they loved my logo, and will consider using. The final deadline finally comes around and I see my logo up. I was so excited to see my work on the apple app stores. I then told every one to check it out and purchase so that they could see my work.

My last entry ended off with me interviewing. The day after that I got a call from CEO, and he said that they have decided to move forward with me. We then set up another interview for on boarding. At this meeting I then signed my life away and they explained a few things. First all the things I would be doing and also how I would be working with things that will be confidential.

After few days I met at the office again with the creative director, and he explained to me what my first small project. Which was the creation of new icons for their site that needed renewing. So for a couple of days, I spend my time researching, drawing, illustrating on the computer, and contacting the creative director back and forth. Finally I, after a week had pass, was done with the icons. I then send him an email with the illustrator files of the icons and they loved it, and said it’s exactly what they were looking for.