Friday, October 18, 2013

McGilberry Mark Project 1 Reflection

Project one was base around what was our worst job ever. The project consisted of three main points to connect in each individual piece. One was to have a geometric design, the next was to have a integrative design, and the last was to have a deconstructive design.  Each design although different still had to focus around the main topic which was your worst job ever.  My worst job ever was working as a day care supervisor.  Each piece of work showed different aspects of the job and how it was hard and one of the worst jobs I have had

All my work was done in photo shop and illustrator. Before that step though, I did a lot of brain storming oh how each design was going to be formed and the explanation of each design so it can tie back together.  It took a long while to gather these thought together and finally come up with a solid piece of work to start with. I think I changed my designs more than once because there were always new thoughts on how to make it better and get a better understanding of the job within itself and why it was my worst job.

 Each piece demonstrates how I rank the kids I dealt with while I was working at the day care. My geometric piece shows how each kid is a symbol in my mind they is either a triangle a pentagon or a star. The triangle represents the dad kids; the kid who makes trouble and gives me a hardest their color is red. The kids who is represented by the pentagon is the in-between kids who have off days and good days; they are the ones who just stay in-between my good and bad sides they have the color yellow. The last group of kids Is represented by the star which is green. These are the kids who are good and rarely give me any problems and are on their best behavior.  In the design each section had a group of kids. Then it goes from the good kids (the stars) at the top, the ok kids (the pentagons) in the middle, and the bad kids (the triangles) at the bottom.  Alongside the design is the word amelioration which means progression and or moving forward. I put it there because although each kid has there symbol in my mind it doesn’t mean it can’t change. I always saw the kid’s progress from where they were when I first started working there. The good kids were not always good and the bad kids were not always considered bad. So that’s why in the middle I have a star with all the different shapes coming together to create the star. I did this because each one is needed in order to make a star so u have to have that triangle and pentagon and the star to hold it all together to make that well rounded kid.

My integrative piece is straighter forward. It compared what I say to the naughty kids and the good kids. At the bottom I put the bad kid’s hands reaching towards me and at the top I have the good kids reaching towards me and in the middle the in-between kids. I have words spiraling out my mouth towards the good kids and also words spiraling out my out for the bad kids. Good kids is represented by the color green, bad by the color red, and in-between by the color yellow. The yellow dose not has a spiral because they have a mixer of what I say to the bad and good kids said to them. Very stressful each day telling kids over and over the same thing.

My deconstructive piece was represent the child’s brain process over time. I drew brains and each one had a color going from red to yellow to green. It showed how over time the drain loses the bad thoughts and desires and transforms into a good kid who is not about being bad and trying to do good.

My whole purpose for each design was for the viewer to see them and get a better understanding of the job within itself and a better understanding of its struggles and show the type of stress and extreme amount of patience and work I had to put into the job. I wanted each design to show the job from a different stand point a different mindset of how to think about it. Also this project put my skills as a designer to the test I really had to reach down within me to come up with the designs and execute it to where it looks good and also makes sense at the same time. I truly feel I gave off how I felt about the job in many aspects  for my peers to understand where I was coming from.

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