On September 20, 2013. I had completed my assignment, and showed it to my supervisor, but he was not happy about it because I didn’t do well on the skin tone of the photo retouch. He told me to do research on the skin tone of the photo retouch. I had been watching Photoshop’s tutorial on Youtube for whole day, and did research on the photo retouching. This experience taught me that the photo retouch skills learned in class are not enough to be used in the real market. I will have to teach myself some things outside of class.

On September 23, 2013.  My supervisor, Yue Chen assigned me a project titled “Open House Recruitment for Prospective Students.” He asked me to come up with several ideas on this project. He wanted the design to attract prospective students to attend New York City College of Technology.

I was stuck on this assignment because I didn’t know what “prospective students” meant until my supervisor explained it to me. The term “perspective students” refers to high school students, transfer students, and adults looking to attend the college. And my concept is to show them what New York City College of Technology can offer.

My concept is to show New York City College of Technology as a motherboard/CPU, in charge of and connecting to the top five majors: nursing, hospitality, engineering, computer science, and entertainment. The design is very tricky because I can only use one line to complete the entire design. I found it to be very challenging because it’s easy to come up with a concept, but difficult to make it work. But right now it’s too late to change my concept, so I’ll have to stick with it.

I was working my retail job one day last year and I had recently got my business cards printed for my print production class. So was excited to show them off to everyone. So I took them to work the next day and handed them out to mangers and coworkers, and people were impressed and really liked them, and told me they would pass them on if they knew anyone that needed work to be done. After a few days passed, one of the mangers told me that they had shown my business cards to one of his longtime friends.

 That just so happens to have a company that developed phone and tablet applications, and was currently looking for a graphic designer to hire. He then gave me is contact information and told me to contact as soon as possible. So I gave him a call. He then briefly explained what his company about and how impressed he was with my business card and how he wanted to see my portfolio. At the time I didn’t really have a portfolio ready, so I told him that I don’t have a portfolio completed yet, but it’s still in the works. So I emailed him about 4 or 5 of my best pieces, and he told me that my work is really great and that he wants to set up a face to face meeting.

I found the article to drag on to get to the key points but it had a few interesting moments. One instance that stood out to me was when Steven Jobs literally took Xerox’s idea and enhancing it further. I can’t believe Xerox didn’t see the potential in their own idea and where it was capable of going. Its interesting how Xerox undervalued their idea and were selling it for cheaper. The article mentioned a few times how the initial ideas of projects were shut down or not taken seriously until someone else came along and saw it potential.