Design 3- Assignment 1

So design 3 has taken off this Fall semester and I have the same professor. She's like, Michelle you need to take someone new next semester. And I'm like, yeah I know!! I just love her teaching methods.

I signed up for her in the beginning of this journey because I was told that she's tough, she'll make you cry. And believe it or not I cried this assignment, skipped a class as well. But I signed up for this.

So the project is surrounded by the idea of graffiti. We watched the WWII video on "Kilroy was here". So we needed a graffiti mark in our drawings. I'm getting ahead of myself. 

We needed to take pictures of an artifact that impacted us, in a 12 shot series. Black and white, little-to no background. 

I went through maybe 4 iterations of pictures before I finally got it down. 

I thought, a water bottle is important to me! I run all the time. On the first day of pinning up, i found out it wasn't personal enough. Then I attempted to tell a story about my asthma. 

I thought the sneaker idea would come across more personal. I sent her like 2 other iterations by phone and those weren't clear enough. When this set was pinned up, the background was still too messy and the story was hard to understand. 

So then I decided to skip class, change my concept completely and wing it. Honestly the constant rejection killed my spirits. I needed a day off from this. 

The new iteration I finished at home before redoing it for the final project. 

Thanks for keeping up with me ! 

-Michelle C. Harter 

The Aesthetics

Alright, so I'm veering off alittle but from my progress in class and taking the direction to my progression everywhere. 

Today at work I took on the task of rearranging the nutrition wall. I've been the visual organizer of the nutrition wall and pretty much all the accessories for the past almost 2 years.

The aesthetics matter. They will always matter. 

Not only do I need to make this wall look neat, and clutter free, but also organize it the way the consumer will need it. 

Quick Lesson: Nutrition for running falls along the lines of gels, electrolyte drink replacements, chews, meal bars, and vitamin or powder enhancements. 

Going off of that, the nutrition wall had to express the options and importance the consumers would be utilizing. Organizing the nutrition wall to importance and similarities is a major aspect of aesthetics. 

Not perfect but you need an idea before you can start anything. I decided to set the wall up vertically in relations to the type of nutrition, and horizontally in relations to the brand and organic amount. 

It may sound like I'm telling you about running and the proper nutrition but after taking my design classes, I found this task to be so much easier than before. I knew how to plan and execute a situation based off of consumer ideas and paint a picture/idea to help their selection. 

Here's the final outcome! 

Thanks for keeping up with me! 

-Michelle C. Harter