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Studio in professional practices.

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MDM691: Professional Practices

1) How has each course contributed to your personal and professional development as a media designer?

Month 1: Master: Personal Development & Leadership – This course helped me to define my goals and outcomes throughout the entire program. The program was definitely a great stepping stone into the graduate level from being an undergraduate a few months prior to the start of the program.

 Month 2: Defining Client Needs – This course contributed to my connection of design and business. Even though I received a degree in Marketing, being able to apply my knowledge from a designers stand point helped to change my perception on advertising and the importance that each factor contributes. When designing for a client, we need to focus on their needs of their customers and truly connect with them on a specified level.

 Month 3: Brand Development – This course helped me to fully understand what a brand is and the purpose and meaning it provides towards the success of that business. Being a Marketing major during my undergraduate, I didn’t consider the importance of branding and its contribution to success rather than just the company’s stand point within the market.

 Month 4: Effective Copywriting – This course helped establish a connection and the importance between verbal and visual communication. Whether the work I create in the future is personal or professional, continuously establishing this connection within my designs will help with the success of their implementation. 

 Month 5: Design Research – Having already known the importance of research for Marketing, understanding that the same importance goes towards design has helped to strengthen my understanding of what it takes to be a successful media designer. After recently learning the purpose that design is meant to uphold, design research allows for those purposes to be developed and implemented with success.

 Month 6: Organizational Structures – Having to develop a narrative and being able to accurately communicate it through a few different platforms was something I was not use to. Having to maintain consistency and ensure the same message is perceived was in fact a challenge but a challenge that has benefited me both throughout the program and at my own job as well with maintaining consistency.

 Month 7: Design Strategies & Motivations – My strongest take away from this course was answering our client’s questions before they were asked, specifically through the use of a style guide. Before diving into the course, I assumed you only design and answered what is asked of you. However, designing and answering the questions that the client may have when it comes time to present the work shows that as a designer I know what I am doing and it can boost the chance of my success.

 Month 8: Design Integration – Being able to display my work in an organized manner from including campaign assets within the final presentation of the Transmedia Campaign for Launchpad has enhanced my organization and presentation skills. This is something that will be utilized continuously as a media design and within my current position as a Marketing Manager.

 Month 9: Multi-Platform Integrations – As the pace had increased throughout this course, it helped to develop a real world comparison of how we must manage projects as a media designer. At first it was perceived as a bit of a challenge that our time would be cut in half for our brand development, however it definitely helped to adjust my time management and organization skills

 Month 10: Measuring Design Effectiveness – As research is important in the beginning stages of brand development, so is measuring the effectiveness our designs from that research. Doing so has really allowed us to remove our personal instincts and truly listen to the community that our designs are intended to attract.

 Month 11: Thesis: Presentation of Design Strategies – Understanding the importance of visually storytelling and how it influences the audience, especially the key decision makers, is crucial to being a successful media designer. As presenting our work and findings happens continuously in this line of work, being able to present our materials in an engaging manner is key to successfully proposing our ideas.

 Month 12: Professional Practices – This course has definitely helped me to start a firm foundation to continuously share my work with others and potentially land another job closer to my goals. Being able to create a portfolio to display my work throughout the program and as I continue forward. Being someone who is rather private and does not like to share my life or my work to the world, this has definitely helped me to branch out of that bubble. 

2) How well were you able to utilize the concepts and techniques you learned from the program (theories, design process, and the creation of multimedia content) as you designed, developed, and completed your MDMFA Thesis Project?

Throughout the entire development of my MDMFA Thesis Project, a variety of techniques and concepts were utilized. From research and critical thinking to strategic placement and color coding for easy access. The information discussed throughout the campaign book was developed based of the research and analysis of the target market. The flow of the book not only relates to the company in relation to plant growing, it relates to the growth of the company throughout the campaign. Each element within the final project incorporates the company’s core values and was designed to reflect the fun, upbeat lifestyle that Urban Gardens To-Go represents. The campaign book was designed to excite and inform the success of the proposed campaign. The biggest challenge in designing a successful campaign was managing time to complete the project. Thankfully, the resources and tools provided to assist us helped to bring new techniques and ideas to the table throughout the project.  

3) Describe your most outstanding personal triumph in each course.

Month 1: Master: Personal Development & Leadership – Establishing a plan and goals to achieve throughout the program is the most outstanding triumph for this course. Doing so, helped create an ease and pace to program and helped to prepare me for the future courses.

 Month 2: Defining Client Needs – I gained the sense that even when you are planning towards a specific goal, you may not end up with the results you originally hoped for, and that is ok. Grasping the importance of trial and error both on and off the screen, set a good pace for me as a designer to move forward with.

 Month 3: Brand Development – The most outstanding triumph for this course is that everything and anything can be branded, including myself. Through a personal brand brief, we had evaluated ourselves from both a professional and personal level. Considering myself in this manner broaden my understanding of the importance of branding and to ensure that I as a designer, brand myself.

 Month 4: Effective Copywriting – Design is intentional. This is something that I never really considered up until this point. I had always considered art as a hobby, whether it be drawing, illustrating or photography. Something that was done for fun and not with a purpose. I never really made the connection or understood the difference between art and design until this course. This definitely changed my perspective in an extremely helpful way for the remainder of the program. 

 Month 5: Design Research – In this course, we began to dive into the importance of critiquing our peers work. Reading and writing critiques has allowed me to step back from my own designs and look at them from another point of view to ensure that I am sticking to my standards and guidelines as well as what to focus on improving next. 

 Month 6: Organizational Structures – Being a media designer is more than just being able to put together a design that looks nice, it is being also being able to explain why those designs elements fit to your campaign and how they will influence success. Something I definitely was not use to but I as we moved forward with the program I began to speak about my processes and why it works with ease.

 Month 7: Design Strategies & Motivations – This was the first time I had every developed a logo. It was in fact challenging at first considering all the factors that make up a harmonic logo. Going into the logo development I definitely overthought the process and allowed my work to be more complex than it needed to be. However, with a bit of critical thinking and through trial and error, the simplest design displayed the strongest connection to the company narrative.

 Month 8: Design Integration – The strongest accomplishment for myself within this course is the development of the TV Spot. Although the first time I had used After Effects was for the Dynamic Mood Board for Launchpad, developing the TV Spot was much more in-depth and time consuming. Being new to the software, I didn’t realize how every little detail plays a role in the development, and it was extremely rewarding to develop a successful campaign in the end.

Month 9: Multi-Platform Integrations – The pace in which we took for this course really forced us to step back and critically think about every design choice we made. Being that time was of the essences, critiquing wasn’t as readily available to assist ourselves. Knowing that I was able to research and develop our beginning stages of our thesis project strongly helped the further development of the project tremendously.

 Month 10: Measuring Design Effectiveness – Developing a consistent brand can be tricky if it is something you don’t do that often. Through the use of surveying, the effectiveness of my developed brand began to increase as my target audience successfully reacted to the materials presented to them. This was really rewarding to me to see that what I developed actually met the needs of the audience I hoped to attract.

 Month 11: Thesis: Presentation of Design Strategies – Although visual storytelling is a guide to successfully presentation our findings, learning how to attract an emotional connection with the key decision maker has definitely helped enhance my presentation skills as well as my confidence. Throughout my undergraduate I was always extremely nervous presenting my work to others. Throughout this entire program, being able to share my work and feeling confident in what I have created is definitely the most rewarding!

 Month 12: Professional Practices – I haven’t considered redesigning my resume for any reason. I figured that what I created my freshman year of my undergraduate would last me for a long time. However, this entire program has enhanced my skills and knowledge that it allowed me to realize my current resume no longer reflects whom I am as a potential employee and as a designer.

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Portfolio This is my portfolio for Professional Practices class

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Primer: Copyright For Photographers

Primer: Copyright For Photographers

Photo By Barry Schwartz The Copyright Alliance recently put together a pretty comprehensive and easy-to-understand series of articles on copyright for photographers. Loads of reliable information based on experience and the law, not opinion (including when the law is based on opinions!). It’s less confusing than I’ve made it sound. It’s easy – and free! – to join up and get the newsletter and…

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Key Facial appearance Anent An Autodesk Authorized ARRIVISTE Nurturing Center

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All learned occupations have a definition of professionalism, a code of conduct. It is where they spell out their ideals and duties… [But] they all have at least three common elements. First is an expectation of selflessness: that we who accept responsibility for others – whether we are doctors, lawyers, [etc.] … – will place the needs and concerns of those who depend on us above our own. Second is an expectation of skill: that we will aim for excellence in our knowledge and expertise. Third is an expectation of trustworthiness: that we will be responsible in our personal behaviour towards our charges. Aviators, however, add a fourth expectation, discipline: discipline in following prudent procedures and in functioning with others. This is a concept almost entirely outside the lexicons of most professions, including my own. In medicine, we hold up “autonomy” as a professional lodestar, a principle that stands in direct opposition to discipline… Discipline is hard - harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconsistent creatures… We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not careful attention to detail. Discipline is something that we have to work at. [pp. 182-183]

The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things right by Atul Gawande

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Against Professionalism

Majordomo restaurant, Los Angeles. Photo By Barry Schwartz I’ve had (at least) two careers as a self-employed professional; now as a photographer and educator, previously as a journeyman carpenter, contractor, and kitchen designer. Before achieving professional status in both careers I was told there were rules I must follow while at the same time other people instructed me there are no rules.…

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Explanation Maintained Grounds Are Primal to Build Professional Players

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Tips for the Artist

So I had my Skype interview with my Professional Practices teacher today. This was an exercise to prepare students for Skype interviews with future employers. In this interview, we went over being aware of the technical difficulties such as with sound and positioning of the camera and where to sit to make the space inviting and comfortable for the viewer. Then she presented a few questions for me such as my goals after I graduate and what my dream in life would be.

She enjoyed that I was more animated and expressive when talking about my dream over that of my Plan A or Plan B. This is where I discussed ever since i was kid, I enjoyed 2D Animation and that is what got me started on wanting to draw and continue to pursue a career towards art. If I could have my dream come true it would be 1 of 3 things: create my own art for children's books or comic books, work for an animation company and focus more towards 2D animation, or later down the road own my own shop that brings communities of the art, comic, anime, gaming, and cosplay world together all in one unique store. While I do not mind working towards 3D animation, I prefer 2D animation and character design more. As far as my plans go, I figured getting any job at this moment would help me gain the working experience and the finances to be able to live elsewhere and work towards my dream job or applying to internships. That way I can pay for my own way rather than relying solely on my parents. 

She said I smiled more when I talked about my dream job verses that of my plans where I honestly can't really determine off the bat with what I plan to do. Thus, it is always towards aiming for that dream and aspiring to be a better artist by working hard on projects I have currently going or within the future, apply for internships to companies like Dreamworks, or work in a comic book store before aiming for the next peak. 

I asked a few questions such as working on a comic for a character I am doing now and also how to get my name out there. One thing she suggested was following people on Instagram and Facebook who do the same thing I am hoping to achieve and look from their experience and also just to be recognized in general. Same goes for streaming on Picarto and give little teases of works I am currently working on now or showing the progress of what I am working on towards a blog which I may start doing. An art blog.

This was a good lesson that I really needed, because as far as socializing and finding jobs that will look at my work and acknowledging it, is hard. I have a Picarto, a Facebook page for my art, a website under development but I do not have an Instagram. I personally don't like the site but if it is a way to get my art out there, then maybe I will try it.

So, what I am going to be doing this weekend is reorganizing my website, getting an Instagram account, making an art blog for my artwork, and also working towards my comic. I have been on a hiatus because of school and doing more work for school than I have for personal use so I think I should try to find a balance without going overboard with being too personal and ignoring school. I am in my last system. I turned in my graduation packet and all I need to do is pass my classes. I am finally starting on my big watercolor project and I already know what I am going to do. I am doing a pop-up book style painting with layers and 3D elements and combining 2D and 3D elements and creating an optical dissonance with foreground, middleground, and background. I am also making it interactive like a pop-up book to where pulling a tab actually does something. Fun, right? I am working more in Gouache because I love how much more opaque it is and I can rather than blend colors, I can layer them instead and focusing on sections of the painting rather than it as an full entity. My concept for this is displaying my phobias like Photophobia, Apotemnophobia, "This boy is ignorance and this girl is want. Beware them both but more importantly beware the boy!", Chronophobia, Fear of Expression, and Thanatophobia. I have 6 paintings to finish and these six are half of the full load. They will be portrayed by anthromorphic Zodiac animals. I am really looking forward to this project.

I am glad I had this interview with my teacher who is really nice and very helpful. She actually sits down with us one by one to help us in preparing for the future which is something most teachers rarely do. I have had teachers simply give information and expect us to grasp it easily. While the information is useful and does test our knowledge of things whether towards history, business, art, digital media, the old vs the new; the list goes on! Not once did I have a teacher actually sit in a desk and talk about her own artistic experiences while teaching us how to edit raw image files in documenting our work and what DPI is acceptable to post online in order for it to not get stolen. She is helpful and I wish this wasn't an exit level course for seniors but for students just getting into their selective programs because the individual teachers hardly ever actually tell you how to document properly and just say, "Go do it." I have never documented anything of my physical work without it being from my sketchbook and edited in Photoshop. I really should add some of my old pastel and charcoal works that are too big to shove in the scanner. I just wish we had a decent camera to document with.

So that was a helpful exercise. I am stream on Saturday a Valentine's image of Kaz. I want to do one because Jade did one of Deadpool so I thought streaming it from start to finish would be better. I may start streaming by 8pm. Might even find a Pandora station of sappy love songs. But until then, later! <3

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