It Has Come To an End

So my post comes to an end in here. I would have to say that having a blog for school is a very brilliant idea. It made me think about things that I would have never thought about before. This semester have been amazing even though with all the pressures and stress I believe that it had made me grow and gave me more experience that would prepare me for my future job.

Though my posts comes to an end here, I believe that I will continue to think about things that we have learned in this class and things that I have talked about in this blog. This blog has thought me to be more aware of things that surround me and to learn from it. But as for now I am ready for summer and what it has in store for me. But for now I would like to say have a good summer friends and also Mrs. Heather.

P.S California Here I Come!!!!!!

My Creativity, My Education

It was a few weeks ago since we talked about the obstacles that people had to go through to be able to do what we want. In this case, for it is to be a designer. I believe that I have always been born with the talent to be creative. Just like the few post I have read, I believe that I am blessed to have supportive parents, and understanding, supporting me through out the way on my way to being a designer.

I believe that my creativity started when I was 7 years old when I have discovered the technology of carbon copy, where I would copy ninja turtles photos and would sell them to friends at school. It was good business I would say. Those were the start of my creativity where even at school I am involved with every aspect of art from preschool to grade 5 just before moving to Canada. Back in elementary, I would be involved with poster contest, leader for room decorations for christmas and a drawer that would draw a picture just for my crush when I was 9.

When I migrated to Canada back in 2001, Not much has changed. My involvement in art has toned down going into grade 7 and then has yet been highlighted in art class in grade 8. This was a turning point for me, because this is when I started thinking what I wanted to be. Back then I wanted to be a cartoonist or a illustrator. Back in grade 8 I would be the main competition by many friends and many of them also supported me till the end. People knew me for my artistic abilities that when it was my graduation and missed the award for Most artistic, people were mad and curios because people were expecting me to get this award. But I would have to say that having my title page used at our yearbook is my main highlight in elementary

After this happened, I was not discouraged nor put down, I continued my passion with art and took art classes from 9 to grade 12. Yes, I was still one of the top student in my high-school years. During these years I was not sure what I wanted to be till it I was grade 12, I was encouraged by my teachers at Applewood Heights to do something creative because they have seen me excelled with artistic work . Not till my art teacher introduced us to Graphic Design and the opportunities that a Graphic Designers could do. This was a start of a new passion for me. I love being creative and loved technology and thought that it was appropriate for me to take such artistic work. My teacher then led to promoting Humber College to me, and I would have to say that I was not mistaken to making this decision.

NO TTC STRIKE?

Well, this was not really what I was expecting about the TTC strike. It might seem selfish but I actually wanted a TTC strike. I wanted reason to not go to school on a certain day this week but I guess I have to. I just find it a bit weird about this whole strike issue. Because I have recently found out that these workers earn 26 dollars an hour, I find it kind childish and selfish to ask for more when the ones getting affected are commuters by the raise of fair.

I find that here in North America, were are really spoiled. We always want more more and more though we know we have enough. Sure these TTC workers work their butt off but back in the Philippines, we would be millionaires if we earned 26 bucks an hour. Also I have heard from a friend that he found out that there was a TTC worker who earned 1 million a year. I was shocked because that would be more than I would be earning when I am working in the friend of Graphic design. So it makes me wonder why people always want more.

Source from www.citytv.com

Facebook Ruins Lives

I would have to say, that facebook can get really addicting and sometimes I find it sort of disturbing how many people have to go through facebook everytime they have an access over the internet. I am not saying that facebook is bad, I actually love it because of the easy access with friends and easy organization of photos and coming events. I jsut wonder if the facebook fad would ever end or woult it never stop. But I would like to give a big compliment to the developers of facebook for creating such a successful website.

Facebook has become the new email, photo gallery and fore most a resume. I have been recently informed by my best friend that employers now check a employee applicants facebook page to find out more about a applicants personality or true attitude. I find this kinda freaky, so I suggest to all facebook users to be aware of all the information we set for everyone to see because we cant be sure who would be reading it.

Source from facebook.com

Jolibee VS. McDonalds

I have been wanting to talk about this for a long time and now I am going to. I have always wanted to talk about a comparison of Mcdonalds and Jolibee. Jolibee is a Philippines based fastfood restaurant equal to McDonalds. When I was still living in the philippines I would have to say that Jolibee could beat Mcdonalds anyday. Because of the service and the food served in Jolibee.
I believe that looking at a Jolibee mascott is alot more kid friendly than a clown that sometimes scares me a bit because a face of a Ronald mascott cannot be hidden. Unlike a Jolibee mascot, the mascot is very friendly, lovable and cuddly, almost like a Barney mascot. Not only that Jolibee beats McDonald by the mascot but also by the food. For those who have not try it, I suggest you give it a try, if you happen to be t california were there are a couple of franchises are built.

A Given Oppurtunity

So few weeks ago, I got an email from my cousin who is a wedding photographer. In the email he had offered to me a opportunity to shoot a wedding in july. As a lot of people know. Other than music I also love to explore my creativity through photography. I am amazed how lighting works and how much emotion a photo could express and how much techniques you could do to achieve amazing photos.

For me, I am honoured to be asked by my cousin to shoot photos with him. Because I do not think that I am that good in photography and am an amateur compared to his photos as shown on top. My cousins name is Billy Mallari, and he started of as designers such as me, which is quite interesting, in my opinion.

Over the summer, I look forward to do the shoot with him to earn some experience and learn how to work as a photographer in the field and a wedding. Though, I am curios to see how people would look or treat me because I have never been to a shoot where the event is not by someone I know.

Sources from billymphotography.com

My Compliments to: Mae San Juan

A hard question in my opinion, If I were asked who I really would want to pay my compliments to. It is obvious that it would probably be God. But to make it different for this post. I would like to pay compliments to my wonderful best-friend whose been here for me whole through out the way from the time I met here once upon a time 4 years ago.

For all this time, for the last 4 years, I have come across a number of new friends and lost old friends. But it never really cease to amaze me how far me and her have been such good friends. Through all the pain and sufferng I have put her through I would have to say that my best-friend beats everyone I have met. She is kind, patient, tolerant and most of all loving in every possible way. She is probably the person I always vent to, when pressured with work and stressed with design work, I get mad for no reason at her and release my frustrations at her and yet in the end she never cease to put up with all the crap I have put her in. She encourages me when I am about to give up and supports me when I am about to just break down from all the responsibilities I am under in.

Overall, I would like to say that Mae, you are an amazing friend. No matter what happens I want you to know that I have always appreciated everything you have done for me even though I don't say it often. I wanna say I love you and thank you so much. I am blessed to have a friend like you!

Design Power

So I was reading Andrew Clanahan's blog post about design power and It was instilled in my mind what he mentioned. He said that as designers we are lucky to have the privileges that we have as designers. As designers I think that there are many ways that we can use are power. Many cliches such as, bring world piece, make a difference in the environment and etc. But for me I believe the best I can do is use my power to promote what I believe in. Truth that I know can help and benefit a world that is full of suffering and hurt.

As many of my friends know, I am serious about my faith and ever so proud of it. So this response might now really come as a surprise to many of you reading this post. I want to promote my faith in God and believe in Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour for who I truly am thankful for and would not have any second doubts about using the my power as a designer to promote. Because I believe that everyone could definitely use the love and compassion that he freely gives to many people, though many do not see it.

Living Hope Baptist Church Anniversary = Exausting

So about two weeks ago, My church had our 10 years anniversary celebration. A celebration that took months of planning on the event. As a member of the church I was involved with many areas of the event such as, Playing music (guitar), Making a Video history of the church, and in charge of setting of the projector. This responsibilities took a lot of my time and effort plus balancing and organizing my time in order to also do my school work.

During this planning time, over the weekends for two weeks, I would spend 10 hours at church on Saturdays for two weeks, from 10am to 8pm and sometimes longer. During this time pressure and stress built up, having in mind the countless projects that I had due every week. But thankfully, God was good and gave me the time and energy needed to do all my work and hand-in projects just in time.

During the actual Anniversary, It was the day that the whole church and my friends were waiting for, because it was a big event that hosted about 600 people. Setting for the event took hours upon hours, requiring me to get up at 5 am in the morning on a Sunday after spending 10 hours of practice the night before. From 7 to 9, I had to set up my guitar, projectors and the video and graphics needed in the event and made sure everything was working smoothly before the main event at 5pm.

Overall, I believe that the anniversary went very well and through Gods grace I was able to handle both pressures from school and the preparations for the event. Actually, the next day Typography assignment was due and I ended up finishing it an hour before class. I would have to say that I was lucky to get it in on time but I wouldn't say that I am at all pleased about the design. Could have been a lot better conceptually and design wise.

Creativity in Food Bento Style

While browsing around on the web today, I saw this creative arrangement of bento lunches decorated as album covers. At first I thought that the lunches were printer won edible paper but as I looked closely, I realized that it was actually the entrée arranged creatively to create an image.

What an creative way of serving lunches to people. Taking an ordinary lunch and having fun with it gives more interest to consumers and will attract more people to come to the restaurant. Not basing taking the serving time in consideration, I wouldn’t mind going into a restaurant such as this to experience something different.


Sources: Pink Tentacle.com

My Manifesto

Last week in class we have talked about Manifestos. We looked at Bruce Mau’s manifesto and I have found it inspiring to see some of his beliefs because some of it I also strongly believe in. Listed below is my own set of manifesto.

Surround your self with great designs - being surrounded by great designs helps you to become a better designer.

Be Proud – being proud of your design helps your design to look a lot better, even if you don’t feel all that confident about your work

Ask for opinions – what you feel as great design but may not work for others. Ask your mom, dad, brother and colleagues what works and what doesn’t.

Be aware of your surroundings – research trends, and popular designs that people are in to at the moment. But be careful not to follow them all the time. Breaking trends might work in different situations.

Less is more - some designers (including me sometimes) feel as if doing more means better design.I find that simple designs are a lot more interesting that complicated once and simple designs easier to remember that complicated once.

Have fun – I find it hard to design when I am struggling with problems. Ideas come faster when you are in a good mood. If your not having fun, then you’ll probably have to rethink being in the field of study.

Mistakes are great – mistakes lead to better design, we eliminate what doesn’t work and what does work. That is why we need to value the time for critiques.

Appreciate Process – I find that many of my ideas come from rough work that I would have never though I could use. So keep drawing/writing those ideas, you never know when it might come to use.

Don’t be a default designer – don’t use default font, default colour and stay in same design style. Learn to challenge and seek for a collective of different styles. You do not want to be labeled as the guy who can only do a specific style.

Stay true to your self – we all have moral beliefs, learn how to take a stand and say no to things you don’t believe in. Do not be a conformist, if you don’t agree on something say NO even if gives big bucks.