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Creating a magazine is A LOT of work! I didn’t realize how much planning could go into a seemingly small magazine. From laying out the pages, to the finest little details, everything needs to be fully thought through. Setting up each page separately is part of the process. Then, deciding margins for each page. Setting up a layout for everything is also needed. I’m currently working on my Featured article. Here’s my progress so far. It’s not a final, so I’ll most likely make changes before submitting! Creating this magazine has been fun at times, but stressful at others. There’s quite a bit that still has to be done! Keep pushing on and don’t give up. Everything will turn out okay in the end.

First, it’s important to start the design of a website with a mood board. If a company has a logo, it should be placed within this board. A mood board consists of the colors the website will be using and the hexidecimal numbers of the colors. It includes the font choices of your headlines, sub headlines, and body copy. It also includes those text sizes, spacing, and styles. A mood board also includes background color, or images. It includes images similar to ones that would be on the website. Key words that describe the vibe of this website can be put on the mood board as well. Graphic elements that will be used within the website can be placed here. The navigation look, feel, and. placement should also be within your mood board.

As a class, we had the opportunity to see and hear all about the cars for sale workplace. We got to hear a few people that graduated from STI in the past speak about their job here at cars for sale. There are so many different job opportunities within one business here. From designing, to answering phone calls about issues people are having, cars for sale seems to have it all. Not to mention, their break rooms are SO cool! They have a whole coffee shop within their business. Other activity areas are a putting green and golf simulators. They even have a slide that goes from the second floor down to the first floor. Within the building, they have a huge dinosaur in the middle of the first floor. A rooster on the second floor, and lots of comfy break spots with couches. Also, they have quite a few different interesting vehicles in there. From old cars, to an actual TRON bike from the movie, cars for sale has so many different vehicles to look at inside.

We had the opportunity to rake two differnet lots in Sioux Falls as one of our class periods. This was super fun and an opportunity to hang out with classmates in a different environment. It was great to volunteer and rake some lots for people! We were lucky that it wasn’t too chilly and the rain held off until we were done raking.

The second year of Media Design can be super overwhelming, or super fun. The choice is truly yours. If you look at the assignments from a point of view that views them as fun, the year is going to fly by and be fun. But, if you look at each assignment as a chore, and something you don’t want to do at all, it’s going to be a long year. I had to change my mindset at the beginning of the semester to a fun mindset.

Keep your head up, and keep pushing on! You got this.

This is an important skill when it comes to designing in general. Without the ability to solve problems well, I personally don’t think you can become a successful designer. Solving problems within a design is important, but also is there’s issues in the communicating side of the design. You have to be able to solve problems if you run into them and reach out to the client to do so. If you have a question while designing for someone else, it’s better to simply ask instead of try to guess.

In design, form and space are two elements that make advertisements exist. Without form, there won’t be space, and without space it’s hard to identify form. Even typing letters have both form and space. Without the space around each letter or space in an O, it wouldn’t look like a letter at all. Pay attention to the space you have to work with before creating a design. This ad uses form and space very well. The space between the liquid makes the viewer think that a wipe swiped the juice away. Without even seeing a wipe, this is implied.

Throughout my college years, I’ve been playing intramural volleyball. I also did trap shooting throughout my years being here. I’ve learned quality life skills from simple, fun sports. In trap shooting, I learned that it’s important to not get in your head. If you get in your head about not hitting one clay, the rest of the clay’s will probably be missed too. Keep your head up and your confidence high. In volleyball, I had to learn that not every game is going to be a win. It’s important to not be too competitive, otherwise it’ll take the fun out of an innocent game.

Walking through Costco the other day, a certain package design caught my eye. This design isn’t necessarily fully “complete” to the eye. However, your brain completes it for you. There is no outer edge or line that completes the shape of this animal, but it doesn’t even need it. I actually find it more interesting and pleasing to the eye to look at without the outer line holding the shape in. This is a coffee brand. We ended up buying a coffee bean bag from their brand solely off of the cool design, and the yummy smell of course. The bright blue eyes of the animal give the illusion and feeling that you’d be wide awake if you drink their coffee.

When designing, try to think outside of the box to what would grab a viewer’s eye walking by hundreds of packages in a store.

My fiancé and I are in the thick of wedding planning. Lately we’ve been creating an invite list, looking through decorations, booking vendors, wedding dress shopping, picking a theme and colors, and contacting decorators. Doing all of these things plus trying to balance school work has been a challenge. The thing that’s helped me most is having a planner! Writing out exactly the things I need to do and when they need to be done by has been a life saver. Don’t try to remember everything in your brain, it’ll overload! Writing things down helps me to not feel overwhelmed by all the things I need to do, but instead helps me to focus on one thing on my list at a time! My advice to you in 2nd year is to keep a planner and plan ahead!