Patrick Tensen

Freedom to express to me means to explore yourself without failure, to try anything and everything that passes through your mind without repercussions. Being creative is hard in such an in demand world, we’re always hustling and bustling to our next destination because we know our time is short and being creative is infinite. I’m a firm believer in “you can do what you want as long as you aren’t hurting nobody, mentality” 

Freedom to explore. Should we be able to explore ourselves and creativity without any reservations? Yes, I’ve enjoyed this and hated it at the same time. I’ve been in college for over ten years exploring classes, degrees, all sorts of things. I have a degree in woodworking, I have a two year degree in tech and computers, I studied music, art and environmental science. It’s been exhausting but I love that I went down those paths because I know what I don’t want to do now. My only regret is not sticking to one thing, but have a stuck to one thing? I think so. I’ve been taking photos through all of that and it’s the only thing I genuinely enjoy. So it’s nice that I had the freedom to explore but I’m ready to buckle down and do what I love. 

Freedom from expectation. We’re social creatures, we’re surrounded by people that each expect a certain thing from you whether it’s your job, family, friends, etc. It’s all different too, everyone knows you as a different person wherever you go. We put on a mask for every single person we meet and seldom true to ourselves. I think it would be a nice feeling to drop all expectations from everyone, everything and society and just be your genuine self no matter how likable or unlikeable we may be

It’s fun to experiment with tools in the adobe creative cloud that I would have seldom touched asides from the blog assignments. Here’s my jersey made in AI. I’m not too impressed but it’s the best I can do as a non-designer and I definitely don’t want to be a designer but I appreciate the craft. My favorite part of the project is the creative freedom behind adding whatever I want to the jersey within the guidelines of the assignment. The issue I chose to address is climate, the team plays in an area called “climate pledge” so why not design a crappy jersey for the player and actually it would make me laugh if I saw a professional sports player wearing my jersey (not giving any ideas to anyone and I’m definitely not asking someone to make these for a player to wear ha ha haaaaa… maybe). Anyway the climate is important! Saving nature is incredibly beneficial for everyone and everything, the more we go natural the better! I hope this jersey would be made out recycled water bottles or somehow made from dirt. I don’t know but it’s cool to think about.

The Seattle area non-profit I chose for my donation is a little place called the “Bikery” located in the Central District.

The Bikery is a place for the community to bring their bikes in to be repaired with the help of a volunteer: get as much or as little help as you need with any bike issues. You can use any of their tools but they do as for a donation of 5 – 15 dollars per hour to use the space and repair your bike but no one will be turned away for not having the funds to donate.

I think a place like this is important because a safe bicycle can be a lifeline for so many, especially for those who can’t afford a car or even bike repairs. I think it’s important to keep people moving on two wheels and have a place for people to mingle and chat about everything bike. The Bikery has been around since 2005!

You can become a volunteer of the Bikery or a member or both

Here are some of their supporters:

Adventure Cycling Association
AssSavers
Babeland
Bike Works
Broadcast Coffee Roasters
Cascade Bicycle Club
Central Co-Op
Chrome Industries
Flying Lion Brewing
Gigantic Bicycle Festival
Hothouse Spa & Sauna
Locust Cider
Machines for Freedom
Métier Racing & Coffee
Peddler Brewing Company
REI
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Bouldering Project
Standard Brewing
Swift Industries
Swrve
The Sock Monster

Admittedly I didn’t do the best job on the whole concept but nonetheless here is my Stanley Dog Bowl. My campaign’s slogan is, “feel like a winner with your cup” … Everyone thinks their dog is special, you’re probably not the only one at the dog park with a “good boy” … You need to show the world that you’re the best dog owner there is with this huge 200 oz cup to feed and hydrate your dog in any occasion! Unlock so much potential!

My mood board below:

Guess Speaker: Seneca

So the 3 websites I chose are:

https://www.phixclothing.com/en-us/collections/clothing

https://www.aarp.org

https://rollingstones.com/

1. Phix Clothing’s website immediately show you products available when you enter the site.

I suppose this company is based out of England but being in the US it has a little American Flag on the top of the nav bar

The top nav bar never changes no matter what page you’re on

2. AARP‘s site is a little messy, as soon as you click “What We Do” on the top nav bar it directs you to another page so the navigation isn’t seamless.

The signature red is easy to read, they have an enormous “Join” and “Renew” button on the site which directs you to similar looking pages. To someone who doesn’t use the internet often it might be a bit confusing.

I like that the site chose to do a bold font on all the articles to someone with impaired vision could see it better.

3. My final site is The Rolling Stones website. Oh did you know they’re touring and they’ll be in Seattle in May? First thing I noticed is that the tour is sponsored by AARP when you enter the site that’s what you’ll see along with a cool logo.

Not seamless experience when you push on the button to shop for Stones merch on the top nav bar you get a whole other tab with a different looking website.

Same when you press on the “Access All Areas” button the website layout completely changes. Almost doesn’t seem like it’s part of the site.

I chose to do my mood reel music video assignment as my voice over here’s the process. It needs a lot more work, it’s not perfected yet.

UPDATE: I cannot upload my video the file size if too large even when compressed. Looking into solutions right now