Week Six

1) Identify what you personally have completed since last week

Since last week I have created a pull-up banner for the marketing and promotions group that will be used when their team is promoting and selling tickets, as well as on the day of the conference. In addition to the pull-up banner, the team also made a request for a smaller banner to be created, however, it has yet to be determined whether the banners should look the same or not, so I am waiting for further direction before I start making 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 major resources I personally used this week are the Adobe design programs Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. Additionally, I used my email and Facebook to communicate and share my work, both with the other graphic designers as well as members of other groups, including the marketing and promotions team, the art direction team and the executive directors.

3) What your team has accomplished in the last week

     Again, we are all working individually so we haven’t accomplished much as a team, although we have continued to communicate and keep each other updated on our progress through Facebook.

4) The biggest difficulty in the last week

     The biggest difficulty in the last week was communication, once again. Because there was no scheduled class, many people did not want to make the trek out to the school to talk about things in person, so we had to rely on email, Facebook, phone calls and text messages to communicate with one another. Unfortunately with the kind of work that graphic designers do, trying to work with someone who isn’t sitting beside you, viewing the screen you’re working on is difficult. There were multiple mishaps due to miscommunications and misunderstandings that likely wouldn’t have occurred if we met up in person, so things ended up taking much longer than they needed to, which was a little bit frustrating.

5) What you personally aim to achieve before next week

Before next week I hope to have some more direction on the way the second banner should look and, ideally, I would like to have it completed so I can take on another project request if there are any available.