[ Saving Myself ]

Today in class, presentations were all done ( last batch )

Somehow I couldnt log into the lab's computer and this is a lesson that I should bring my own laptop during graphic design class. Laptops are really heavy tho. I wonder if Photoshop can be used on tablets ?

After that, Mr.Deepak/Menon started giving us instructions on our project.

There goes.
18 sketches. And each sketch requires a tagline.

At first I wanted to do No Phone Zone campaign, but come to think of it, I can't really dig out too much ideas revolving a phone. 18 sketches .

So I decided that I'd do the intercultural thing.
Its also not too easy, but at least easier than the NoPhoneZone .

The one thing I like that the lecturer said was

" Don't try to save the world, just get the job done."

That made so much sense.
Saving the world is hard. I shall save myself first !

Claude Monet

Claude Monet  Founder of French impressionist painting

Most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

 Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting  Impression, Sunrise 

• He would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw instead of copying from old masters

• He found new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air  with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism

 ELEMENTS 

• COLOR    
• VALUE
• TEXTURE 

PRINCIPLES 

• MOVEMENT 
• EMPHASIS

by creating a welter of techniques and forms, Impressionism became a precursor of various styles of painting, including Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism.   

[ Introduction ]

My name, is Rachel.

Aspirations and dreams were what I once had, but right now I don't think too much and I'm just living each day as it passes.Enjoyably, of course.

Graphic design to me when I was young, was something interesting and fun, a way to express myself.
I was proven wrong when I struggled with illustrator during introduction to design.

I'm a very impulsive person at times. Unpredictable is a better word to describe me.
I get impulsive when I go shopping or decide what I want to do ( such as business degree in the first place ).

I however, can be really careful and sensible when it comes to other things.
It depends as everything's got two sides to it.

Graphic design was once my dream.
Not until I realized its a complicating field to be in. People struggle to get jobs ( as I heard ), brainstorming gets stressful, sketches are done in piles and the tools are expensive.

Behind every dream there's reality.
And reality now is that, I've enrolled myself into graphics.

I can't believe it.