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Day 6 Training Journey

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Still working on our group project in today, I was so hard to pick colors on my name tags, I try to making all of four is different, but I can’t. Because black typeface is difficult to showing on the dark-blue background… Also, I finished the welcome banner for this event, it’s my first time to do this kind of design, so I put all of information inside of banner… And then, William told me that I don’t need put those informations, just need put the “Welcome” to it… LOL! I learned one more thing today > <

Tomorrow is last day of our training, and we need to presenting our creative project and group project. I hope everything will be OK!

Day 3 Training Journey

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Today is a big challenge for me… I think I need to have a good sense of time management, timeframe of the project still a little bit short for me to catch up. I hope I can doing more better on next time. Also, I learned a lot of client information with William and Natalie, how to discuss the project with the client and how to print out our project in right size with crop mark. Of course, I also need to say “thank you” to the other new Faculty intern, Julie, she helped me a lot, and always explain something I don’t understand. We always try to give each other the ideas. I’m luck that can be a member of Faculty Commons design team.

Training Day 1- Ashley Valera- January 9, 2016

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What did you learn today?

Today I learned more about our main audience and how to cater our posters to them. I also learned about making sure to keep the main copy just as important as any graphic elements while seeing if the elements are necessary. As well as looking out for small details.

What were your challenges?

Some challenges I had was placements of text and elements and where they went in relation to each other. Also had a challenge with time, being unable to complete a draft of my final concept, but I did have an idea of where I wanted to take it as I started.

How did you help each other?

We helped each other by explaining the reasoning behind why we liked some elements of the different designs. We went into what was or wasn’t working and how to improve on those things. We thought about what points out to use first and whether it worked with the hierarchy we went with.

Training Day 1 – Elijah Lugo – Jan.9th

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What did you learn today?

What I learned today during my first training session with my new team, faculty commons, is not only how to work within a time limit but also how a project should be executed and what the expectations will be from my fellow co-workers and even the faculty who will be viewing are work every so often.

What were your challenges?

In the beginning me and some of the co-workers who were also working on different designs had a time limit and were expected to finish in time before break and we did. Later my challenges were understanding how exactly the project should be executed because i’m not used to this much freedom especially when re-designing a design. Usually the maximum freedom I’m allowed or that I allow myself is when I work on a self-initiated project at home on my own terms. But besides keeping track of time and working quick but efficiently my only challenges were the flexibility of my ideas and designs.

How did you help each other?

Me myself and my co-workers helped each other by critiquing each others work once finished which helped us expand our range of ideas and see what could work better within our designs. I believe this helped me and my co-workers because we can continue to improve our designs as we continue to work and think of ideas.

 

Arianna Bollers – End of Semester Reflection Fall 2016

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  • Have you completed all your work (for the Fall 2016 semester) with your clients and closed all loops?
    Yes! I have complete majority of the work I set of to accomplish this semester including the projects with First Year Programs, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the English Dept. I am glad to know that I will be continuing my stay at City Tech as a graduate working with First Year Programs to complete The Companion. I can’t wait to start working on the book. I am aiming for first year students to pay more attention to these books and use them throughout their school years at City Tech. All I need to do is send some holiday wishes.
  • Are you happy with your results with the work you completed this semester? What was your favorite project you got a chance to work on this semester?
    I definitely enjoyed all the projects I got to work on this semester. I enjoy working on projects that help professors send awareness about their classes and programs. I am also really looking forward to working on The Companion next semester.
  • How are you going to prepare for next semester during the Holiday Break? If you are departing from the team, let us know your plans for 2017.
    I am definitely looking forward to doing self curated and collaborate projects during the break and throughout 2017 and learning and practicing skills I already have.

Spring 2016 Mid Semester Reflection

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What are your goals that you would like to accomplish by the end of the semester?

One major goal I would like to accomplish by the end of the semester is to achieve a well established online presence. Being a designer, it is essential to have an online presence. Especially being in this century, it is what puts you on the map without having to be on the other side of the world. The steps I plan on taking in order to accomplish this are develop business cards, create a portfolio, create a social media page dedicated to my work, and create my website. I am hoping that by having an online presence it will open doors to new opportunities and deem me worthy to those seeking design related assistance.

Mid-Reflection: Spring 2016

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What are your goals that you would like to accomplish by the end of the semester? How can we help each other to reach that goal?

My goal by the end of the semester is achieve all A’s in my classes. This semester, I am only taking 4 classes that are major based and all of my midterm grades were A’s! I hope to keep this up for the rest of the semester while still accomplishing projects at work and personal. I am glad that we are always encouraging each other as a team here at Faculty Commons because some of our classes are stressful. We can get through them by asking each other for our opinion and thoughts on projects that we are working on. Whether its for work, school, or personal. This is a task I would like to do more often because it is super helpful towards our success in our semester here at City Tech.

Can’t wait to read everyone’s post!

FC Reflections Fall 2015

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Project Management

This Semester I had the privilege to work Prof. Ferrell and the African American Studies department. I had the chance of a life time, which was to redesign the departments look. I am pretty sure almost any designer would have wanted that same chance. I am glad Prof. Jordan chose me and in doing so I would leave my mark, and have something outstanding to add to my portfolio. I honestly got to design a few posters for some important events. One of them was the poster for the the Black Solidarity event in the school, that design was absolutely outstanding. It felt great to design something with a hip hop theme in it, as I am a hip hop music fan. Even though I had successful project designs, the challenge of other prior responsibilities was still present all throughout the semester.

Design Skills/Techniques

This semester I found myself going back and forth using the adobe applications. For some of the projects I used Photoshop then switched to Indesign or Illustrator. For example the list of courses for the AFR department, which was completely redesigned. I went from using photoshop in the icon images then I used Illustrator to vectorize and improv the image quality when taking it to print, the from there I used Indesign for the whole layout of the project. My skills keep on improving especially in Indesign. Compared to when I first stated the internship I am significantly better and much more comfortable.

Work Relationships

I have been in Faculty Commons for a few semesters now, and since the beginning everyone is more than helpful. We are not only part of the FC design team, but I see that we are a FC design family. I would sometimes need some help and my co-workers are always there. I am designing something my the design team is always there to give me advice and valuable criticism. I also needed help to film for my senior project and they were there for me. I don’t think I ever had that kind of help and feedback from another place I have worked, that might be because Faculty Commons isn’t any other place, it is the place to be.

Training: Day 4

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

What did I learn?

I got a lot done in training day. Today, I actually earned a few things about Adobe Illustrator and InDesign that I never new before. Today I officially completed my business card and made it ready to print. In addition, I completed a few banner updating and adjustments for Blackboard, Openlab, and iTec.

What were my challenges?

Today, I didn’t face a lot of challenges, rather than asking questions. When I was updating the banners for Fall 2015, I noticed that the dates on the banners didn’t match with the dates for the fall academic calendar. I had to double check and match them so that the information is correct and I’m not misleading anybody.

How did you help each other? 

I received a lot of feedback from Mandy and Raciel today. And I’m also glad to say that I received a review from Professor. Jordan. With her critique and thoughts on my Openlab Header designs, I was able to narrow my work down even more and create new idea. I’m very inspired by the team here at Faculty Commons.