Engagement Journal

04/30/19
Final Day: Class Presentations.

04/25/19
I gathered ideas for the Very Interesting Project.

04/23/19
Concrete Poetry is finally complete and I’m proud of the turnout. Cromar was extremely helpful with helping me get to the project to completion.

04/18/19
I am behind on Marinetti and Parody, but I’ve been able to catch up on other exercises. Cromar and I are close to finishing up Concrete Poetry.

04/16/19
Cromar and I will need to meet in person to figure out how to get my Concrete Poetry project to function more properly.

04/11/19
Continued working on the Concrete Poetry which has progressively ran into so many issues and is such a big headache.

04/09/19
I gathered images and JavaScript for Concrete Poetry.

04/04/19
For the concrete poetry my word is “Suing” which was a bit confusing to develop ideas around. I was thinking about memes about Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter’s single “Sue Me” from her latest album. However I wanted to make it just a tad more serious.

04/02/19
For the animate project I wanted to do something that involved my interest with music. I decided to do something with a Turntable and Vinyl.

03/28/19
Marinetti and Parody became aggravating and I had some Medical issues influencing my ability to concentrate.

03/26/19
For video mash I decided to use Cromar’s version as a bases. I recreated his VideoMash.

03/21/19
Continued work on Rhythm and Pacing.

03/19/19
Continued work on the animate exercise.

03/14/19
In Ireland from 2/28/19-03/09/19.

03/12/19
In Ireland from 2/28/19-03/09/19.

02/28/19
Unable to attend class due to Traveling to Ireland with Penn State Group.

02/26/19
Today we had a group discussion.

02/21/19
Today we started Marinetti.

02/19/19
Today we started VideoMash and Parody. I want to make fun of Katy Perry for Parody since I believe she is the worst female artist in pop music today besides Madonna.

02/14/19
Today I presented my Alphabet Blog. I decided to use ink on flash cards.

02/12/19
School Closed.

02/07/19
I started brainstorming for the Alphabet Blog.

02/05/19
I was updating my blog.

01/31/19
School Closed due to weather.

01/29/19
Absent.

01/24/19
As a class we’re going to work on the animation graphic together. WordPress is also being irritating, it wont let me successful upload my SVG file. I finished and uploaded the exercises to my blog as well as my uploaded a lot of album covers I designed on my free time over the past year and last week.

01/22/19
Professor Cromar left class sick. He instructed us to use our time wisely to continue to finish our exercises. I had already completed my Text Effect last semester. I completed the exercises.

01/17/19
Today in class we continued our studies using photoshop exercises. The biggest thing I’ve learned today was how to properly apply the usage of “Kerning and Tracking”. Learning about this will help me better develop more precise placements of text in my future designs.

01/15/19
Today I learned how to update my blog through the admin section of word press.
I emailed Cromar my links that he asked for. I completed the texture.pdf exercise. I started the “Creating web-ready Graphics”. That exercise was confusing as I’ve used the curves and levels tools in not the way it’s instructed in the tutorials. I hope to better understand how to continue to develop skills for a software I thought I was very proficient at. I will be finished the exercise by Thursday as I only have to work with the colour wheel.

01/10/19
Attendance not required.

01/08/19
Today we went over the Syllabus for the class.
We started the process of how to HTML with replacing pictures used on a demo for a website by replacing those stock photos with works of ours.
I have to use Photoshop and make JPEG versions of my work as I prefer the higher quality used with PNG, however my preference doesn’t matter in this sense due to the functions of the HTML file.