Week Fifteen

1) Identify what you personally have completed since last week

Since last week I received a reply from the Sponsorship team leader and was able to finalize all of the sponsor’s posters, which are now being printed. Additionally, I also edited the Graphic Design Transition Document and added some points of my own.

2) How you accomplished those tasks including any resources you used such as tutorials, meeting with group members, meeting with other groups, books, etc.

      The resources used for this week were meeting up in person, as well as communicating online, both with the rest of the Graphic Design team as well as with the Sponsorship team leader. Furthermore, I continued to use the Adobe Programs InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

3) What your team has accomplished in the last week

      We have been working on our Graphic Design Transition Document together.

4) The biggest difficulty in the last week

      There really haven’t been any difficulties in the last week. There was some frustration when editing the poorly written Transition Document, but it wasn’t difficult to do.

5) What you personally aim to achieve before next week

Before next week I hope to have the Transition Document completely finalized.

Week Fourteen

1) Identify what you personally have completed since last week

      Since last week I received and added the last logo to the Sponsorship team’s penguin banner and it has finally been sent out to the printer. I’ve also basically finished creating the Sponsorship team’s posters, however I’m just waiting for the team leader to answer one question before I can finalize them and send them out to get approved. Lastly, I’ve begun writing and editing the transition document for the Graphic Design team.

2) How you accomplished those tasks including any resources you used such as tutorials, meeting with group members, meeting with other groups, books, etc.

      The resources I used for this week were communicating online via Facebook and email, as well as meeting up in person with the other graphic designers, primarily to discuss our transition document; the same resources were used when communicating with the Sponsorship team. Additionally, I also continued to use the Adobe design programs InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop when creating my requested projects.

3) What your team has accomplished in the last week

      We have begun compiling our transition document together.

4) The biggest difficulty in the last week

      The biggest difficulty in the last week has been waiting quite a few days for a reply from the Sponsorship team leader. When I first began working on this project she told me that she wanted to add an extra sentence to the Photo Booth TO poster to tell people to go check out the photo booth and have their pictures taken, however she never told me exactly how she wanted to word the sentence, so instead of writing something myself that I’ll likely end up having to change, I’m waiting to find out precisely how she wants the sentence worded.

5) What you personally aim to achieve before next week

      Before next week I hope the Sponsorship team leader answers my question so that I can finalize the posters, get them approved and send them out to the printer as soon as possible. I would also like to get the transition document done, and potentially accept (and ideally finish) any last minute design requests, if we receive any.

Week Thirteen

1) Identify what you personally have completed since last week

      Since last week I have finalized the EMA penguin banner (shown below) and it has been sent off to the printer, along with the road signs that were posted in last week’s blog. I have also begun designing the posters requested by the Sponsorship team and have almost completed their penguin banner, however I’m still waiting to receive one more sponsor’s logo before I am able to finish it.

2) How you accomplished those tasks including any resources you used such as tutorials, meeting with group members, meeting with other groups, books, etc.

      The resources used for this week were meeting up in person and communicating online via Facebook and email both with the other graphic designers as well as the team leader of the Sponsorship group. Additionally, I continued to use the Adobe design programs InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop when creating my projects.

3) What your team has accomplished in the last week

      We haven’t accomplished anything as a team other than continuing to communicate with each other both online and in our meeting.

4) The biggest difficulty in the last week

      The biggest difficulty has been/is waiting to receive the last logo so that I can finalize the penguin banner and have it sent off to the printer as soon as possible, as the date of the conference is quickly approaching. Both myself and a few other students have tried multiple times to get in touch with the girl who has the logo, but she hasn’t been answering any of us and hasn’t showed up to class in a few weeks, so we’re basically stuck trying to wait as patiently as we possibly can for her to respond to one of us.

5) What you personally aim to achieve before next week

Before next week I hope to receive the last logo so that I can add it to the penguin banner and have it sent to the printer immediately as I’ve already had it pre-approved by both the Executive Directors and the Art Direction team. I would also like to finish the posters for the Sponsorship team and possibly accept a new design request.

Week Twelve

1) Identify what you personally have completed since last week

      Towards the end of this past week is when I finally heard back from the EMA Logistics and Planning team leader on the font that she wants used for the penguin banner, however I ended up receiving her email right after I had sent her a new version with a different approved font from the Art Direction team, so now I’m waiting to see if the latest version with the approved font is acceptable. I’ve also begun working on the penguin banner for the Sponsorship team, although it seems that almost every day the conference acquires more sponsors, resulting in the need to add more logos to the banner and rearrange the spacing of the logos that I’ve already placed, so things are moving a bit slowly.

2) How you accomplished those tasks including any resources you used such as tutorials, meeting with group members, meeting with other groups, books, etc.

      The resources I used for this week were meeting up in person with the rest of the graphic designers, as well as continuing to communicate with each of them through email, Facebook and text messages. I also used Facebook and email to communicate with both the EMA Logistics and Planning team leader and the Sponsorship team leader. Furthermore, I used the Adobe design programs InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop when creating the projects.

3) What your team has accomplished in the last week

      We haven’t accomplished anything as a team as we’re still working on our own project requests individually.

4) The biggest difficulty in the last week

      One of the biggest difficulties in the last week was (and still is) rearranging the penguin banner every time I receive a new logo, which happens almost daily. The other difficulty was the aforementioned font fiasco that began last week and has continued well into this week.

5) What you personally aim to achieve before next week

Before next week I would like to have the EMA penguin banner font figured out so that it can be sent to the printer, along with the signs (shown below) that have been approved and ready to go for quite a while. I would also like to have the Sponsorship banner close to finalized, however I doubt that will happen with the way things have been going.