Assignment Ideas

Drats! This is my first blog post, and it is late, need to get back into the routine of checking my school email. But here we go! Allonsy!!!

Hello there new acquaintances! My name is Felipe Oliveros, and I am you new classmate. I am majoring in Technical Communication, and minoring in Spanish. 

In our first class we discussed many possible ideas for the assignments this semester. Some of the ideas are general assignments that would be very productive for anyone; these are the Resume and Business Cards. I feel these should be done first, just so that everyone can start off on the same foot, without any advanced design techniques being introduced until everyone has built their foundation. The resume and business card are good assignments for anyone and everyone, because they will help in the forthcoming job market search.

The second tier of assignments would be the flyers, brochures, and logo design. In this set of assignments we would move into more creative aspects of information design. These however, are still very relevant to many of the fields of study or work related to the students in the class. Anyone hoping to work with companies, of many kinds, would greatly benefit from learning how to design these things. I feel these would help me, as I will likely be doing this myself.

The third tier would be more design specific assignments. Although these will not apply for everyone’s futures, they would be greatly beneficial for everyone. These assignments would be advertisements, menus, packaging, and book covers. These would come later in the semester, once everyone has gotten the hang of the basics, and would let everyone let their creativity flourish. While these will not be related to everyone’s career after college, they will be good things to have in the creative arsenal.

I am very excited to see what this semester has to offer, and look forward to working with all of you.