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Last week in Portfolio Production, a peer of mine and I were randomly selected to print out and trim down a test version of our participants book for the Portfolio Show. Everything was going very smoothly until halfway through the cutting process, our cutting machine suddenly went dark and shut down right as the blade… Read more

Earlier this week on Monday, my peers and I were given the full day off of classes to hand deliver invites and posters for our show to businesses in the desgin industry and highschools around the area. We each had to hand-write the addresses on our invites before delivering to come across as more professional.… Read more

For today’s blog, I wanted to look back on a past project of mine from my first year of school to critique and determine what can be changed and/or made better. The project I chose is my infographic from Design Fundamentals class first semester. For this project, we were instructed to build/design a 5.5″x16″ infographic… Read more

Yesterday, lots of SD received a lot of snow and stormy weather. I was supposed to go to Portfolio Design Class and Layout lll, but since many of my peers live outside of Sioux Falls, our instructor was nice enough to let us do class remotely from home. This might seem great, but in reality… Read more

Last week in Portfolio Design class, my instructor allowed us to leave class slightly early if we volunteered to hang up Portfolio Show Posters around buildings on campus. We have the designs printed on a nice, smooth stock that makes them a nice quality and helps to give them an attractive, eye-catching look. I hung… Read more

Last week in Portfolio Production Lab, we finally reached the moment where we could hang the final version of our winning window cling design. A peer of mine and I both volunteered to tear down the old graphic and put up the new one. In my personal experience, I have only wrapped a mini fridge… Read more

Recently in Portfolio Design class, our instructor introduced a few new projects to us that will take us to the end of the year. In this last portion of the semester, we’re centering our focus on building our personal brands, like designing and animating our own personal logos to have on promotional items like business… Read more

Over our recent spring break, my goal was to get as much school work and personal work done as possible. Unfortunately, life decided to get in the way, and I ended up needing to move out of my home. This took up almost the entire week that I had for my break. I had to… Read more

In Multimedia Portfolio class earlier this week, our instructor introduced a new website for us to utilize for showing off our portfolio virtually, making it so much easier to share our work with those who cannot attend the show! This site is Artsteps (https://www.artsteps.com), in which you can build your own virtual art gallery, whether… Read more

Earlier this week in Multimedia Portfolio class, our instructor demonstrated to us how to upload our magazines to Issuu.com, so that we can link and share them digitally. This way we can share our physical and final versions of our magazines with friends, family, and potential employers without having to take time out of class… Read more