What did you learn?: The material that I learned from this project is the Gestalt Principles along with design choices to avoid when creating specific sets of art.
What was easy?: Personally I found creating the baseline of the project to be easy. To clarify, I found structuring the shapes to be the easiest part.
What was challenging?: On the other hand, fine tuning these shapes and creating a focal point for almost every frame was the most challenging for me. Furthermore, I initially struggled with cutting out the foam core due to my inexperience with the blades. Though I went through this experience for a short time, the cutting machine in the other room did make my life easier.
How could your submission be improved?: My submission could probably be improved through a different story as the one I used (Baa Baa Black Sheep) made it some what difficult to come up with designs that matched the words.
How could I improve the assignment for the next class?: One way to improve the assignment is to possibly make printing the assignment onto foam core optional. This is only because the action of doing this does not teach the main lesson of applying Gestalt Principles but instead is only extra work for the assignment’s overall physical look.
How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?: The knowledge of learning Gestalt Principles will help greatly in future assignments and work scenarios by allowing me to make better choices in terms of design. To be more specific, I do make posters for a club that I am in which I do design from scratch, so using these Gestalt Principles will help these posters stand out more than they already have.
Link to project: https://www.figma.com/file/b08G4jkl9Y3RqguN24dENE/DMA214-Project-1?node-id=0%3A1