Author: teagenjune

  • Plans for Break

    Now that semester one is offically over, I’d like to talk about some of the things I’ll do over my break. I’m definitely going to try and stay in my softwares to keep everything fresh in my mind, as well as edit and mess with a few already completed projects. I’ll also do some photography… Read more

  • My Favorite Parts of Semester One

    I wanted to talk about some of the things I enjoyed during this first semester. Top of the list I’d definitely say I really liked using the laser in my Media Design Development class. Both when lasering onto pens and cutting out our packages. I also really enjoyed, although slightly rushed, putting together the layouts… Read more

  • Beal Distributing Inc

    I thought that I should probably mention the place that I currently work at, which is Beal Distributing Inc. I started there as an intern the end of summer before my second year of college. I worked in the sign room, both designing and doing production work. We create flyers, banners, small/medium signs, and much… Read more

  • Folios

    At the beginning of this week, we placed placed all of the seperate pieces of our magazines in one document. These pieces being, the cover, the table of contents, the editor’s letter, the main and second articles, and all of the ads. After all of this, we added folios to the bottom of each page,… Read more

  • Beds & Beds Article

    Earlier this week, along with my main article, I also finished the second article in my magazine. The article was about the local and locally owned business Beds & Beds, and my time spent there. I utilized the photos I took as well as pulled out quotes to fill space around the story. In the… Read more

  • Octane Ink Article

    Earlier this week I put together and completed the layout of the main article of my portfolio magazine. This article is about Octane Ink and my time spent there while interviewing Max Bullard, an employee of Octane and previous student of STC. The article is two spreads long, and utilizes the photos taken by me… Read more

  • Lasered Pens

    On Tuesday, we had the opportunity to laser designs we made on to pens. Personally, mine is a Christmas gift for my dad, but some people also did contact information in case they wanted to make more to hand out to possible employers. Before lasering onto the pens, we had to create something for the… Read more

  • Product Label

    Today in class I worked on creating my own product label. I chose to create a label for liquid plant food, based on my own plant food product. I started with creating a sunflower for the center with my pen tool, and am planning on adding a masked-out photo of one of my own succulents.… Read more

  • 7 Things for Your Empty Canvas

    Today I finished and turned in my Product Spead for my portfolio magazine. My spread features essential items needed when painting. Well not all of them are needed necessarily, but they all help. I posed all of my products in a lightbox for an all-white background photo. I cleaned the photo up in Photoshop, and… Read more

  • Trend Predictions for 2023

    I recently read another article on trends for 2023, this time about social media, and I wanted to write another post confirming and falsifying these trend predictions. The first passage talked about TikTok taking over the world, in regards to media. In my opinion, TikTok has definitely grown and risen in popularity and usage within… Read more