For the past weeks, I have been working on my portfolio campaign, in my design classes. We even had a contest for it to be the face of our portfolio for this year. We had already voted and everything and Even though I didn’t win I still was able to learn so much. We even critiqued each other so I got some very valuable critiques from my peers.
In this entire process, we made and mocked up a Poster (11×17), Invite & Envelope (A7 Env size), Guestbook or equivalent, Window Cling, Website Composition, Facebook Timeline Graphic, and a Table Tent. Some things were simple enough because it was just designing things like posters and invites. But the most difficult piece is probably the book mockup. It had the most pages to figure out, even though it was just a mockup, and it didn’t have a definite size that we had to work with. We had the freedom to pick the size and that was both good and bad. It was good because we had that freedom, but it was bad because it had to be a certain paper size. I had a small problem about it being too long for the paper so I had to make it smaller, which made me have to change the inside format as well.
My favorite part of this assignment was probably being able to print out and cut out my work. I enjoyed being able to see it big on paper rather than just on a screen. We worked on a little bit of everything really fun to do. Trying to change the paper size and orientation while also trying to keep the same look, was a very interesting process. But I enjoy doing it a lot.
Overall the project was both very stressful and rewarding. It also helped me vouch for my time management with printing and cutting. This was probably one of my favorite assinments. It wasn’t just focused on one thing but a bunch of things. I hope that I can continue to learn and grow so that I can get better and better in my skills.