• What did you learn?
• What was easy?
• What was challenging?
• How could your submission be improved?
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I learned how to manipulate text in order to create contrast and fill an image completely.

Everything was fairly easy, formatting the text was quite fun and simple by using Gestalt principles to make sure the work was done correctly.

Like stated above, there wasn’t really anything challenging about this project. I feel as though it was the easiest one of the course so far. At least for me.

My submission could be improved if I spent a little more time planning out my designs.

I don’t think there is any way to improve this assignment. It was very straight forward and easy to understand.

This assignment will be able to help me in the future when needing to format text in some type of way that does the best job of conveying the message.

• What did you learn?
• What was easy?
• What was challenging?
• How could your submission be improved?
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

For this project we learned how to create stamps using all of the principles learned throughout the course.

It was fairly easy to come up with the ideas for each individual stamp in terms of content. Being that my family is from Lithuania, it made it very easy for me to think about what specifics of each category I wanted to create on each stamp.

It was challenging trying to figure out which fonts would look the best. I choose an official looking font for the name of the country, but a fun looking one to describe each image so that they would contrast and be easily distinguishable from one another.

I tried to keep the same theme throughout the stamps in regard to the visual component. I think that my submission would be better if I had been able to execute this more. Along with that, I feel like the submission could be improved if I had more of a distinct color scheme for each stamp. With trying to keep the same theme for each stamp it made doing that quite difficult.

I wouldn’t change anything about this project. I had a lot fo fun with it and really enjoyed the process of working on it.

I will be able to take the knowledge from each chapter of the course into the rest of my life dealing with any type of digital design. Although this was the first time I had done any type of work with digital design, I feel as though I learned a lot and will now have some type of general knowledge of the subject.

Similar to the last project, viewing previous year’s examples was very useful since it provided me with some type of idea for a starting point and gave me some inspiration instead of just starting with a blank canvas.

What did you learn?
What was easy?
What was challenging?
How could your submission be improved?
How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I learned how to create an image of a metaphor using two separate images. Being able to manipulate different images in the way that I wanted to in order to create something new on the screen was something that I had never done before.

It was fairly easy for me to come up with an initial idea for my image. When I saw the list of metaphors that was provided, it was fairly straightforward to come up with an idea as to what I wanted to create.

The challenging part for me was actually the same as the easy part. Initially, I had a few designs that I was thinking about but when I finally decided on the one that I believed I could execute the best, I found little trouble bringing my idea to life.

My submission could be improved by doing more pre-planning. Most of the work that I created came right off the top of my head as I was going along and if I had pre-planned what I wanted to do, it would’ve made the work easier to create.

I think that this project could be improved if we were given a shorter list of metaphors to choose from. I understand the appeal of creative freedom, but for a project like this, it could be helpful to have a smaller list of metaphors to choose from that you know will be executed well.

The ability to manipulate real world images is something that will be useful in the workplace as those are the types of images that company’s use in marketing most of the time as opposed to cartoons.

Looking at the student examples from previous years really helped as it gave me an idea of the type of work that was submitted in the past and helped me gain a visual of what the final piece should resemble.

• What did you learn?
• What was easy?
• What was challenging?
• How could your submission be improved?
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I learned how to use color in a way that is captivating to whoever the audience of the work is. I also learned that different colors work well with one another, where others do not. Along with certain colors being used together, each color also creates a different emotion that it connects to when viewed.

The easy part in this project was coming up with ideas for what I wanted each of my landscapes to look like. The previous project allowed me to have a basic understanding of how to create the images that I wanted to and how to arrange them in a way that is visually pleasing.

The difficult part of this project was choosing the right colors to use in each landscape. I had a general idea of what I wanted to do for each, but playing around with the colors and finding the right ones to use seemed to take the most time for me.

My submission could be improved by creating more complex imagery that tells a better story than the ones that I created. I wish I could’ve created images that looked more realistic instead of more like a cartoon like I did.

I dont think that anything has to be changed with this assignment. It was a very fun project to do and playing around with the different color schemes was something that I really enjoyed.

Similarly to the last project, this one will act as a building block for future projects and allowed me to yet again become more familiar with the software in order to create the best work that I can.

The article we read that talked about the different emotions that colors are connected to was very useful as it helped me choose which colors I wanted to use for each landscape.

• What did you learn?
• What was easy?
• What was challenging?
• How could your submission be improved?
• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I learned how to use the Figma software for the first time, as well as the Gestalt principles and what they are/how to use them.

The easy part of this project for me was connecting the nursery rhyme to the imagery that was being selected. Since I knew the nursery rhyme well, and its concept is easy to understand, connecting images was easy.

The challenging part was learning how to navigate Figma and how to actually create the images within the software that I had in my mind from the get go.

My submission could be improved by gaining a further understanding of the software, perhaps by watching a YouTube video about it to produce more interesting and unique imagery.

A way to improve this assignment in the future is to provide more real world examples within the lectures. As this is likely the first time that most students are creating any kind of digital work, it would be useful to have more than one example provided to use as some type of starting point or inspiration.

In future assignments, I will have some more knowledge about the way to apply the principles learned to make sure that the submission is as good as it can be.

The feedback provided on the initial submission was very helpful with the final one. it caught some mistake that I had made initially without even realizing them.