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Monday, March 14, 2011

Course Reflection #10: Course Review

Design 200... I enjoyed this course. While getting an easy 'A' I learned probably close to 85 percent of what I wanted to get out of this course. For a basic low course level dsgn class it was worth taking. The information presented in the class was good but at times dry. I wanted to learn more about the job market for designers and a little more about how and where mid-level designers work. Overall I liked this class alot, and I am seriouly interested in becoming a designer. Therefore next quarter I am looking foward to taking dsgn 201! I'm not quite sure in what specific field but that can be determined later. I hope that taking 201 will give me the best idea of what kind of work a designer actually does. Then I can take these two classes along with some researching that i'll do this summer about the job market, and make a decision of whether or not I want to apply for a design major.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Journal Entry #10: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

My group/ team was composed of:
http://lynchdsgn200.blogspot.com/
http://breannaraynedsgn200.blogspot.com/
http://jklinedesign200.blogspot.com/
http://peainmysoup.blogspot.com/
http://jklinedesign200.blogspot.com/

Links to Journal 8 and 9:

Journal Entry #09: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

Journal #08: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation of A05

I enjoyed the Coleman Project! This project taught not only to work hard ourself, but also in a group with others. Due to the large amount of brainstorming that occured it was important to effectively communicate your individual ideas in a way that the rest of the team would grasp. Our team really didn't split up tasks to get certain aspects of this projects finished. Juliette Portisch really took the for front in our group. She designed to powerpoint, and drew some outstanding sketches of out product. Everyone else including myself had great input, did multiple sketches, and took their part as a team member in the King Group. Reflecting back on my contibution to my team in this project I would probably give myself a B- maybe C. I had multiple ideas, some that were used and some that weren't. I presented our actual product during our presentation, and I also drew the kids bug book that we included in the packaging. I feel that I wasn't affraid to be critique someone else's idea, or tell them what I thought. To improve or move the completion of this project I could have taken more of a leading role and possibly urged the group to meet out of class, or even assigned certain tasks to group members. But overall this was a good project; not too demanding, but at the same time required great debating/ brainstorming skills from everybody!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Journal Entry #09: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

Our progress as a group was lacked a little bit, but individually getting things done outside of class time has been great. We just started outlining the slides last week. So that is our main priority now. Maybe a little too much brainstorming and not enough getting things finished, but everybody is contributing in one way or another. Here is a layout/ outline of what we have to officially finalize by Wednesday before we do our presentation:

Packaging (look and material)
Book/Guide
Logo (Green Coleman logo, "for kidz", and fire-fLITE logo)
Kiosk
Power Point (Mostly pictures)
Confetti fireflies (shiny material and glow in dark)
Recycle code and CAUTION stuff
How many lights do we need?
Other products for catalog (only if there is time)

This was a little bit of brainstorming about the packaging along with what will come with our product.

This is an amazing drawing/ sketch of what our product is(a desk light with lightnig bugs).

Some more brainstorming of our light.

A list of what we needed to research a little more.

A few different packaging designs. Our Coleman Green Logo, and a few ideas for slides on the side.

An outline of our material to the evaluation.

Brainstorming of our Kiosk.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Readin Reflection Heskett Ch. 9&10 (RR08)

It was kind of weird to just jump back into this book again, but I can say I definitely like this book more than cradle to cradle. It had a lot of information and then gave an example or two to drive home the point. Cradle to Cradle was very long and drawn out. Design, unlike most professions, has never really reached the level of self-regulating rights that control the entry or exit of the whole practice. The design industry is so broad. It ranges from notebooks and binders all way to cars and buildings. In the 1990s Chrysler designed a whole new line of vehicles that took them out of a crisis and made them one of the most innovative car companies of that time. There are not only so many different industries where designers can find work, but so many different levels of organizations where they can work in. Take for instance Nike: Carolyn Davidson designed the Nike Swoosh. Now they have designers drawing up shoes of all kinds. They have designers designing the buildings the company works in, the different kiosks in any store their product is sold in, and any product that they sell. Designing is a huge under rated part of the economy. All organizations want consumers to precede them in a certain way. Designers are one popular choice of how to make that perception happen.

Journal #08: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation of A05

My group/ team is composed of:
http://lynchdsgn200.blogspot.com/
http://breannaraynedsgn200.blogspot.com/
http://jklinedesign200.blogspot.com/
http://peainmysoup.blogspot.com/
http://jklinedesign200.blogspot.com/

Well so far nothing is set in stone, but in class this week we have made progress brainstorming. Most of this has occured on paper. A bunch of note taking and sketching. We have a pretty good idea of what our new product is and what it will look like. Same with the packaging and the kiosk. At this point no major decisions have been made, but we do have a very narrowed idea of the product. There are two major directions that we as a group are taking it: We are directing this towards a younger age group and also taking this product and making it green. In my opinion our group/ team has been working very well when we are in class. Everybody contributes ideas to this project. Outside of class we haven't done much, but next week we are planning on meeting to commit to our product design.
I have contributed many ideas of how the product, packaging, and kiosk should be designed, drawn, or if neccessary constructed. I also gave a few sketches of different designswe could do. I like dawing so I know I can bring that to the table. To move this project forward our group should and will do more work outside of class.

The 1st day we brainstormed of all the possible products, packaging, and different kiosks that we thought of.
Anything that was thought of or mentioned we put on paper.

This is some brainstorming about our product; a few designs of the actual products look, and some ideas of how the
lamp gets it's power and also the new look of the Coleman logo.

The Evevator Speech

These are just a few names that I came up with for our product. Not the best or intriguing of
names but it's something to work off of.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Reading Reflection #7 McDonough Ch.4-6

The end of this book was very technical and had a lot to do with sciences. One of the reasons why I am taking this class is because I don't like science very much. So this section of the book wasn't what I would say very interesting. I understand that factories, big corporations, and the technology advancements have hurt the environment. This is a huge problem because the earth will not always be able to take all of the pollution we as humans put forth. Therefore it is an ever expanding effort to go green, and to make products and build everything with as little impact on the environment as possible.