My Creative Process video

This is my final video for my Art 220 class. Well I hope you guys enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZGiSx-NN4

Last day of class

On Wednesday we talked about classes that we are going to be taking in the winter semester, then Jimmy talked about what we should expect to see in these classes. He also talked about  what to look forward to after we graduate, like what companies would be looking for from us and ways to prepare our self. After that he let us go home early.

Beautiful Losers

On Monday Jimmy showed us a documentary on a group of  artists called the "Beautiful Losers". At the end of the film he gave us a homework assignment to answer  two questions on the film. The first question was What was there inspiration? In the film I felt that their inspiration came from the kids they grew up with , a lot of their child hood memories and the innocence of youth. The second question was What where there ideas? One thing was to be self inspired, not fitting in, non judging and to think out of the box. A lot of their ideas were also based on being creative and not labeling themselves as one particular thing. As they grew older, most of them became designers and artists for commercial art, but they never lost their original views on art. They didn't sell out, but they bought their style of art to the mainstream world and let people who wouldn't normally see it take a look at it.
I really liked this movie I thought that it was very inspirational, after seeing it gave me motivation to do what I want and not let people bring me down on my art.

Wednesdays class

On wednesday we discussed the ideas that we had about how we could promote the graphic design program at school to students that went to Cal State Los Angeles. I thought that it was cool how we got to present our ideas. When we presented our ideas one thing that I noticed was that it that made it feel like our class was a graphic design group  and we were all individuals and went up and presented our ideas to the group. Another thing that was helpful was the feedback that the people in our class gave each person as they presented their ideas.

The Monday Class

During the first part of class on Monday, we talked about what Graphic Design is and Jimmy said that the it is a term that is evolving and it is a term that is problematic and always changing. After that we created a list of where we could find graphic design now. In the second part of class we had ten minutes to come up with a story with things that we had in our backpacks and our pockets. We had to work in groups of two. The story that me and my partner came up with was called "The Gray Wolf's musical journey". The things that we used for our story was a bookmark that had an image of a wolf, a high lighter, geek squad flash drive, Ipod and a Blackberry Bold cell phone. All these things told our story about the journey of the wolf trying to find music.

Production

The Chapter on Production was interesting because it was supposed to be the final of all these processes, but it is also sort of the beginning as well. I like how the author explains that Production doesn't mean that the designer is off and ready to leave the work for someone else. I know that as a designer, I wouldn't want to leave my project to the production team and walk away. It is important to be there for this stage just like all the rest. You want to see the finished product.

One important point in the chapter was the various prototypes. The throwaway prototype is used specifically to be thrown away. You only need it once to test the product at a certain stage. The prototype that I can relate to the most is Evolutionary Prototyping. I like it because you can use it as your work progresses and when you need to. Like your project, your prototype can grow and be molded and fitted to what you need it to be.

As a designer, you are always going to have to deal with feedback. Negative or positive feedback is most important at the production stage because you have to bring your project to life. You have to listen to both sides even though you don't want to hear the negative and just want to hear the positive. You have to listen to the positive feedback to figure out how to fix your project, and you have to hear the negative because you need to know what is wrong before your idea goes out to the public and does not get good reviews.

Screen Printing Workshop at Erge Designs

  On Friday, November 19, 2010, I went to the screen printing workshop at Erge Design that GAUGE hosted. This workshop was so much fun. I got to learn the process of screen printing. The type of screen printing that we got to do was hand made. At Erge they have two types of machines that they do screen printing on. One is hand made screen printing and the other is an automatic machine that does all the process of the screen printing. What I enjoyed about the screen printing work shop was that in the end we got to use the hand made screen printing machine. I made two shirts that had two different designs and we got to use two different types of paints. One was water based paint and the other was plasticizing paint. Here are the two shirts that I got to make. The shirt on the top is made with water base pain. It is a plain look and the shirt on the bottom is made with plasticizing paint. With plasticizing paint I learn that it gives it a plastic shiny look.