Quite Petite!

 [CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: Enough For Now by The Fray]

Today was quite an interesting day in my package design course. For the past few weeks, we have all been working on redesigning or designing new logos for our chosen companies. Some people chose pre-existing companies, while others chose to make up their own. After much thought and contemplation, I decided that it would be a lot of fun to create something from scratch. And to make it even more fun for myself, I chose to design a logo for a Cupcake Shop!

My ideas started off pretty scattered in the beginning, but after much feedback and adjusting, this is how I finalized the idea:

Believe it or not, this is quite a drastic change from where I started. And prior to finalizing to this, I originally had the icing on the cupcake brown...but my teacher very descretely told me it resembled "poo", LOL! I was going for chocolate, but her honesty convinced me to change it ;o)

After finalizing things for the first 2 hours of class, a full class of business students visited us in the mac lab as we not only had to present our final ideas to our own class, but to them as well! AHH! We presented alphabetically by last name, so I anxiously awaited my turn and took in what my classmates had to show--and at the same time, rating their work as we were actually voting for a top 3 for the final project. I really enjoy seeing the work of my classmates...they come up with such fun ideas! It's also inspiring =)

When things were all said and done....we received some great feedback from the business students. When they took off, we were left to find out who the top 3 were.

Zomg! I was picked!

I got a lot of positive feedback over the past few weeks, so I wasn't entirely surprised, haha! But I'm now put in the position of LEADER of a group! ME! Not an opportunity that arises very often for me. One other time, last quarter, I actually took charge of another project and I thought it went quite well. I can't wait to see how things go with this =) The 3 leaders got to choose who to work with, too. I'm pretty confident with my group...they do awesome work.

Design Challenge #1

 [CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: For What It's Worth by The Cardigans ]

This quarter I'm enrolled in an e-portfolio class where we'll be putting together websites to showcase our design talents. I've tried many times to build a website for myself. I've gone through the building process a couple times, at least....but none have ever made it to the world wide web, HA!

Anyway. With that in mind, the teacher is apparently going to give us design challenges each week. The idea behind it is to help build our portfolio up. Our first challenge was to create a 3 ad series for an amusement park. While most others in the class chose real amusement parks, or completely made up their own...one of the first things to come to my mind was Wally World, from National Lampoon's Vacation. I started with an idea really simple, which I wasn't sure at first I liked. So I started a second idea, which is what I ended up rolling with as it was more appealing.

I just finished my 3rd ad design a short bit ago, and decided it would make for a great blog post! Keep in mind. I was still going for simple and fun. Representations are not exact with the movie. And upon presenting the rough mock-up of my first idea to the class, it was suggested that I build my other ads around other rides with the moose walking through the park. So that's what I went with.

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