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Voting Day!
Recently in Portfolio Design class, we reached our deadline for our Portfolio Campaigns, and it was time to display our pieces for our classmates and DMP students to critique and vote on which campaign they’d like to represent our program at the Portfolio Show! Quite a few of my peers were rushing to print and…
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Mass Production
In this last week, we had two full days off of classes in the start of the week. Monday was President’s Day and Tuesday was Institutional Effectiveness Day, which is something I do not know the reason for but I’m assuming it’s a meeting or session of some kind for instructors.During those two days I…
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SEO Presentation
The other week in Multimedia Portfolio Class, we had a guest speaker come to the classroom and present on SEO and Web Analytics. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, and it helps improve and inncrease traffic to a website from search engines. You can improve your SEO for your site by making sure that you…
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Trapping
The other day in class, we did a trapping exercise in Adobe Illustrator to sort of show the process with color and print and what overprint looks like. We discussed the difference between black and rich black and how two colors overlapping one another can create a new color when printed. Regular black is when…
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New Blog Look!
Today in Multimedia Portfolio class, with help from a classmate, I successfully migrated my blog posts over to my domain server, so that my posts show up on my Portfolio website! I had to export all of my content from WordPress.com and import it to my server. Now I have a new theme and many…
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Learning & Teaching
Today in the Portfolio Production Lab, it was my turn to learn how to properly fold, bind, and cut the graded version of our magazines. First, we folded each page in the center, starting with the edges, and using a scoring tool from the center-out to flatten the fold and make it precise. Next, we…
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Printer Problems!
In Portfolio Production Lab on Thursday, it was my turn to walk my classmate through the process of printing off their magazine through our Fiery Command WorkStation. I had been taught the week previous and took notes on the process, and the person who taught me was taught by another. So, somewhere throughout this game…
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Dribbble.com
I recently discovered an interesting website through a classmate called Dribbble.com. It is a site where designers can share small shots of their projects to show them off, boost their portfolio, and seek feedback. It is also a really great place to find inspiration and ideas. They are a completely remote company, so they have…
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Some Helpful Apps for Designers
For a recent project for my Multimedia Portfolio class, I had to create a presentation on mobile apps for media professionals. To show some of the features of the apps, I screen-recorded while using the apps myself, and I ended up keeping a few downloaded afterwards! The first was Pinterest, which I already had, like…
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The Main Source of my Inspiration
When I’m feeling “artist’s block”, I like to turn to my Oma for a source of inspiration and ideas. “Oma” is the word for grandmother in German, and for my entire life she has made art her career. Her apartment is beautifully decorated from floor to ceiling with either her own art, or art that…