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New Media Blog #5 – Found Letters
My dream place/country to work would be: Japan
Specific location: Tokyo, or adjacent
Why do I want to live/work here? In many ways I feel a bit limited in my design practice only ever learning mostly Western styles of design which rely heavily on Swedish influence nowadays. I want to learn as much that will challenge my mindset as I can, and I think that trying an Eastern approach might do me well.
AVG Cost of Living: Single person, standard amenities – ~$1004.50 USD/mo (142,352.80 Yen) // Cheaper than Seattle (technically)
Quality of Life Rating: Very High
AVG Income for Graphic Designer: about $40,000/yr USD, which shouldn’t be bad compared to the cost of living
Jobs I found:
Here is a detailed breakdown of my activities and “life time lock” for the week from 10.20.23 through 10.27.23:
10.20.23:
- 7:30am – Wake up
- 7:45am – Stretch
- 8:00am – Shower
- 8:15am – Get dressed and ready for the day
- 8:30am – Leave for school
- 9:00am – Arrive at school/begin the school day – New Media
- 9:00am-10:00am – Guest Speaker
- 10:15am – Water break
- 10:30am-11:30am – AR Module: Presentations
- 11:30am-12:30pm – Lunch break
- 12:30pm-2:00pm – AR Module: Lecture
- 2:15pm – Leave school for home
- 2:30pm – Arrive home
- 3:00pm – Start dinner
- 4:00pm-5:00pm – Eat/unwind
- 5:15pm – Begin homework
- Illustrator – Project 1, Sketches
- Listened to/watched videos for
- Intro
- History
- 8:00pm – Brain-off time: video games
- 8:00pm-11:00pm – Starfield
- 11:00pm – Nightly hygiene
- Brush teeth
- Wash face
- clean ears
- 11:30pm – time to sleep
10.21.23
- 6:30am – wake up
- 7:00am – leave for work at the Reef
- 7:30am – open staff entrance to job
- Build/set aside till bags for crew
- Unlock window shades
- 8:00am – open the store
- 8:15am-12:00pm – store accounting/count all the money
- 12:00pm-1:00pm – cover lunches
- 1:00pm-4:00pm – continue work at the reef
- 4:30pm – unwind
- 5:00pm – start making dinner
- 6:00pm – dinner/unwind
- 7:30pm-11:00pm – homework
- Illustrator project 1
- assorted readings from history, intro
- Interactive design project 1
- 11:00pm – Nightly hygiene
- Brush teeth
- Wash face
- clean ears
- 11:30pm – bed
10.22.23
- 6:30am – wake up
- 7:00am – leave for work at the Reef
- 7:30am – open staff entrance to job
- Build/set aside till bags for crew
- Unlock window shades
- 8:00am – open the store
- 8:15am-12:00pm – store accounting/count all the money
- 12:00pm-1:00pm – cover lunches
- 1:00pm-4:00pm – continue work at the reef
- 4:30pm – unwind
- 5:00pm – start making dinner
- 6:00pm – dinner/unwind
- 7:30pm-10:00pm – homework
- Illustrator project 1
- Assorted readings
- 10:00pm-11:30pm – lolligag
- 11:30pm – Nightly hygiene
- Brush teeth
- Wash face
- clean ears
- 11:45pm – bed
10.23.23
- 7:30am – Wake up
- 7:45am – Stretch
- 8:00am – Shower
- 8:15am – Get dressed and ready for the day
- 8:30am – Leave for school
- 9:00am – Arrive at school/begin the school day – History
- 9:00am-11:20am – lecture
- 11:20am-12:00pm – lunch break
- 12:00pm-2:00pm – lecture
- 2:15pm – Leave school for home
- 2:30pm – Arrive home
- 3:00pm – smoke/relax/order food
- 4:00pm-5:00pm – Eat/unwind
- 5:15pm – Begin homework
- Illustrator – Project 1 final attempts
- 7:45pm – zoom call with Jason to try and get advice
- 8:00pm-12:00am – illustrator project 1
- 12:00am – succumb to defeat/sleep
10.24.23
- 7:30am – Wake up
- 7:45am – Stretch
- 8:00am – Shower
- 8:15am – Get dressed and ready for the day
- 8:30am – Leave for school
- 9:00am – Arrive at school/begin the school day – History
- 9:00am-11:20am – lecture
- 11:20am-12:00pm – lunch break
- 12:00pm-2:00pm – lecture
- 2:15pm – Leave school for home
- 2:30pm – Arrive home
- 3:00pm – smoke/relax/order food
- 4:00pm-5:00pm – Eat/unwind
- 5:15pm – Begin homework
- Illustrator – Project 1 final attempts
- 7:45pm – zoom call with Jason to try and get advice
- 8:00pm-12:00am – illustrator project 1
- 12:00am – succumb to defeat/sleep
10.25.23
- 6:00am – Wake up
- 6:15am – Shower
- 6:30am – Prepare for school, cram last of project 1 for illustrator
- 7:45am – get ready/leave
- 8:00am – cram cram cram!
- 8:58am – finalized project 1 for Jason
- 9:00am – First crit – it hurt so good
- 10:00am – break
- 10:15am-11:30am – lecture: Illustrator
- 11:30am-12:00pm – Lunch break
- 12:00-2:00pm – Lecture pt. 2
- 2:15pm – Leave school for home
- 2:30pm – Arrive home
- 3:00pm – release brain pressure
- 4:00pm-5:00pm – Eat/unwind
- 5:00pm-8:00pm – Video games
- 8:00pm-11:00pm – sketches for Project 1 in intro
- 11:30pm – sleep
10.26.23
- 7:30am – Wake up
- 7:45am – Stretch
- 8:00am – Shower
- 8:15am – Get dressed and ready for the day
- 8:30am – Leave for school
- 9:00am – Arrive at school/begin the school day – Intro
- 9:00am-11:15am – lecture
- 11:15am-12:15pm – lunch break
- 12:15pm-2:00pm – lecture/sprint
- 2:15pm – Leave school for home
- 2:30pm – Arrive home
- 3:00pm – smoke/relax/order food
- 4:00pm-5:00pm – Eat/unwind
- 5:15pm – Begin homework
- sketches on sketches
- 10:00pm – sleep
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AR Module – Assignment #2: AERO
This week in our AR/VR Module, we were to design a greeting card for an ambiguous event/occasion. I am very fond of memes and prefer the style of “SomeEcards” being that they are greeting cards with silly little statements.
For interactive elements, the heart symbol is the starter, and ffrom there, I used a ‘touch’ trigger, which hides the symbol, and causes the phrase “pssst” appear with an arrow, leading you to get closer to it. Upon coming within 50cm of the phrase, it swithes out for the actual card.
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Guest Speaker Blog Assignment #1
This week, we were tasked with the objective to build out a poster for a given band to accompany their appearances at the Capitol Hill Block party this year. The band I was assigned was Wavedash, an EDM group out of Austin, Texas. I didn’t know much about them before this assignment, so I tried to build something that I thought matched the ideas I was getting just by looking them up.
The biggest recurring idea I saw was that this group uses a log of ‘grungy’ aesthetics while still looking clean cut. I sought to emulate this through several methods.
Here is my ACTUAL final project:
