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.

Journal Entry #10: Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

My group/ team was composed of:
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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!

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.