2017: A year of learning
During this year, I found the first moments of a blend between my studies finally occurring. Beyond the words of any lecture I’d sit through, the benefits of a creative, visual tract were mingling with the needs of my marketing classes. This year was the beginning of an exploration in honing my skills technically, while applying them across new scenarios.
Classes
Advanced Drawing: Contemporary Issues
Consumer Behaviors
Fundamentals of Graphic Visualization
Visual Communication and Process
Topics Covered
Drawing
Life Drawing, figure drawing
Graphic Design
Historic references on modern concepts;
Layouts;
Infographics
What did I learn?
ADVANCED DRAWING:
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
This class was a more serious drawing class than I had previously enrolled in, but with the encouragement of my professor I collected my art supplies and got drawing. During this year I explored the relationship with editorial drawings and the current political discourse. I created a body of drawings representing the biggest faces in global politics, amongst other public figures.
CONSUMER
BEHAVIORS
This marketing-track course is a required class at SJSU. With two sections, it covers concepts across B2B and B2C marketplaces, specifically the relationship between predictable behaviors and strategies to use regardless. This course began to point out the ways my studies in graphic design and visual arts can play into the decision-making process in business.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
AND PROCESS
In DSGD 100, we dove into the world of classic graphic design. While we covered the aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite, the main focus of the class was to begin to associate conceptual defenses to our decisions. No longer were we just designing posters, we were creating compositions and focusing on the structure by which good taste and design rest upon.
Gallery
Take a break from the hustle and bustle.
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