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TYPE 2: Final Animation

TYPE 2: Animation Round 2

Here it is more refined:

I can't read chinese.

So, there is someone who keeps writing comments on my blog in chinese or japanese... not sure. BUT, I cannot read what you are saying so please stop commenting.

TYPE 2: Animation Round 1

Here is my FULL type in motion. It still needs quite a bit of work but all the text is in now. WOO.

TYPE 2: Journal 14 (the last one!)

What inspired me this semester?

I want to point out three different things that inspired me this semester.

1. The TED talks that I was both assigned to watch and those which I watched for my own pleasure were very inspiring. Each person had their own story and ideas to share and teach to millions of people. I found that there was one specific TED talk that made me think about how design can come in many ways. We did not watch this one for an assignment but I was fortunate enough to see it in Philosophy of Art and Design. Michael Pritchard's design of the Lifesaver water bottle was absolutely amazing. His designed helped so many people who were in desperate need. I have always leaned towards bringing awareness of world events and problems in my designs but after seeing Michael's talk about his design it made me want to make it a goal to one day be a designer who can have this amazing effect on people.

2. Every single one of my classmates. Whether or not I have become really close friends with everyone this year, especially this semester, in Type and Graphics I feel that I have made a connection with each person. Having a group of potential designers this great is really hard to come by and I think that the up and coming classes will look up to ours and see how close we all are with one another. I feel that everyone has inspired me in some way, shape or form this year and without classmates like these I honestly don't know how I could have improved over the past eight months and gotten to where I am today. I really do feel that our entire sophomore class (also including those who are older) is by far one of the most unique and close knit groups of people that I have seen in the 20 years I have been alive. It is awesome to know that I can come to class, work towards becoming a graphic designer and be lucky enough to be around such great people for six straight hours a day. In no way am I being sarcastic either!

3. All of the Graphic Design professors who have had to put up with me for the past year. Besides an elementary school teacher that I will never forget and who is someone who has inspired me to continue doing what I love, I can definitely say that I have never had so much fun and enjoyed having professors in college like all of you in the design department. You each have your own individual way of communicating and I am so glad that I have been able to learn, in various ways, how to become a better designer. I feel that I have been inspired by you all to continue pushing myself and trying to get better and better (even if it means pulling all nighters left and right). In the end I know that it is worth it.

Well, this whole thing probably sounds really cheesy and ridiculous but it is all true. I have not found just one thing that has inspired me this semester or this year but have been fortunate enough to have so many different people give me inspiration.

TYPE 2: Journal 13

Larry Lessig: I really did not like this TED talk at all. I felt that he was not very interesting to listen to and that he spoke to the audience as if they were incapable of english. The way that he placed EVERY word that he said onto the screen felt very redundant and unnecessary. Sometimes by having words heard and seen at the same time makes a strong impact but during his speech I felt that he went overboard with doing this. I did find that he made a good point about three fourths of the way through his speech about how tools of creativity are the tools of speech. This is the literacy for this generation. It is how kids speak, how they think and what kids are as they understand technologies. He stated that technology has made kids different from adults and that we cannot make kids passive but can make them pirate. But is this any good? What his point ended up being was that kids live life against the law and that this is what is corruptive. I also found that the small clips of Jesus singing 'I Will Survive' and George W. Busch were the best parts of the speech.