Arbitrary Thank You Letter

From: Wei Jian Zhen
To: Ms. Kemper
Subject: CTESS Interview

Salutations Ms. Kemper,

Thank you for taking the time to interview me for the application of an intern at your company. It was nice to meet you by the way. The way we engaged with our conversations with each other was very concise and streamlined. There was a lot to talk about relating to the subject of Visual Design. For example, how we talked about Photoshop features and the capabilities that I bring to the table. We both like technology which could be better in the future.  You know, it was very funny when the topic turned into robotic puppies. Haha. So anyway, I really hope you hire me because I offer utilities to your company that other employees do not. I am Adobe certified in Adobe Photoshop which I can finish tasks effectively. I have the basics of Illustrator which can create marvelous artwork. I am also capable of designing brochures and other projects in Adobe InDesign. I also have good hand-eye coordination which can help in the process of building projects. I am taking a visual design class which trains my performance on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This will help me improve myself until the time comes for the internship where my skills will be tested to a degree. I am also able to solve problems to a extent until I need supervising because I need to a good diligent worker that follows the directions just like we talked in the interview. Now I know or think i know that you said something like keep your emails short with about 3-5 sentences if you ever send any or something like that, right? Well, sorry about that although there were a few things I wanted to say before time deficited and the next interviewee was to be interviewed. So I had to put just a tad bit more in this email to relieve myself from this whole interview debacle. I just want to ask one more thing that I didn't get a chance to during the interview for clarity concerns. What are we going to do if the equipment necessary for the intern is absent and will I need to wear business attire for the rest of the internship? So that is pretty much it. ._.' Finally I got an opportunity to meet with you for like a whole year of life I waited. I am very thankful for the interview and hope to hear from you again in the coming weeks! :D Take care! ;)

Signature:Wei Jian Zhen 

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Project 5 Respect For All Brochure Reflection Journal

In this lab, we used the Adobe Programs of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to make a brochure. First off, I opened up Adobe InDesign to start my project. I clicked on New to create a new document. I managed the settings to be in inches of measurement, 2 pages, and 3 columns. I named my project "Project 5 Respect For All Brochure" and clicked OK to create the document. Secondly, I clicked the Type tool from the toolbox. I clicked and dragged from the top left hand corner diagonally downwards to the bottom right hand corner of each column of the brochure. I clicked within the text box of the first column and typed in my title and name. I clicked in the second text box and inserted some sentences and questions about the subject of peace and violence. With the third text box, I placed text encouraging people to unite under peace. I clicked within the fourth text box and typed in the possibilities of what peace can initiate on the viewer or others. For the fifth text box, I transcribed examples of peace for my brochure. For the first part of the brochure, I clicked the Rectangular Tool. I filled the entire column by clicking from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the column. I clicked the color panel and selected light blue for the rectangle. I right clicked on the light blue rectangle and clicked Arrange. From Arrange, I clicked on send to the back to send the light blue rectangle to the background behind the text box. I saved the InDesign document by clicking File from the InDesign bar. Now from File, I clicked on Save to save the InDesign Document. I next clicked Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 to open the program. I clicked on New to make a new document with default settings and clicked on Place Embedded. I clicked on the image of earth with people of varying degrees cultures/nationalities holding hands. I clicked OK to place the image onto the Photoshop document. I held shift, clicked, held the mouse button, dragged the image diagonally downwards with the mouse button, and pressed enter. The image was now officially placed. I clicked on the Magic Wand tool. I clicked within the ring of people to make a selection. I clicked on the Paint Bucket tool, color picker, and chose blue which I clicked on the selection that turned the selection to blue. I repeated the same steps again with the outside of the ring of people. I saved the document as a Photoshop document and a PNG image. I went back to Adobe InDesign to place the newly edited image of the earth with a ring of people in the first column by clicking File from the Photoshop bar and clicking Place from the File tab. For the second column of the brochure, I placed an image of fire in one half of the column. I arranged it to be in the back to be the background. For the second half of the second column, I first went into Photoshop and created a new document again. I clicked on File from the Photoshop bar and clicked Place Embedded to place an image of question marks. A window appeared for me to select the image and once I clicked on the image, I pressed OK to place the question mark image into Photoshop. I clicked on the magic wand to select it. I clicked and dragged within the question marks to make a selection overlaying them. I right clicked on the question marks and clicked Layer via Copy to create separate layers for each question mark. I arranged them using the Move tool placing the question marks in various locations on the Photoshop document. I clicked on the Gradient tool to select it. I clicked on the color picker to have purple and red as the foreground and background colors. I clicked and dragged the mouse from one side of the document to the next to have a shade of purple to red for the background of the question marks. I merged the layers into one single layer and saved the document as a PNG. I placed the PNG image onto the second column just like the first half. For the third column, the color of the background is a gradient of yellow which was edited in Photoshop that I used the Gradient tool for. I placed an image of a peace sign on the third column too. Next, I opened Photoshop and created a new document again. I clicked on the brush tool, chose the color blue from the color picker, clicked and dragged the mouse across the document in an irregular pattern, clicked on the magic wand tool, selected the blue area, selected inverse, chose orange from the color picker, painted in the same irregular pattern as the blue, and repeated the steps until the whole document was filed with wavy lines of blue and orange. I saved the file as a PNG and placed it in the Indesign document in the back of column 4. I clicked on the color picker from the InDesign toolbox and selected green as the color. I clicked on the Rectangular tool from the InDesign toolbox to select it. I clicked, held the mouse button, and dragged the mouse from the top left corner of the fifth column to the bottom right hand corner of the fifth column to create a green rectangle. I right clicked on the green rectangle. I clicked Arrange and Send to the Back to have the green rectangle as the background for the fifth column.  For the last column, I placed a beige background. I linked websites that talked about peace or related the the discussions from my brochure. I saved the InDesign document. Finally I saved the brochure as a Adobe InDesign PDF. Knowing how to create a brochure is essential for web developers and designers as it leads into opportunities to expand your mental knowledge, experience, and economic growth.

My Brochure in PDF form:https://s5.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/1224669588/Project_5_Respect_For_All_Brochure.pdf
My Previous Blog about the CTE EXPO: https://qwfepfp.blogspot.com/2018/03/cte-expo-reflection-journal.html
A link or source for my brochure cited in column 6:https://peacesciencedigest.org/
Logo website of brochure:https://www.colourbox.com/vector/earth-day-vector-12062541
InDesign Tutorial:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHDy_nEvgd4

Credit for the original image for this logo goes to Kharlamova_lv 

From this point of time all currently available or shown Adobe programs are now being used in conjunction with one another for my projects and showcasing of blogs. Stay tuned or subscribe to catch up on the next installment of blog post!  See you then! 😄 

  

CTE EXPO Reflection Journal

The objective of the CTE EXPO was to create business cards, post them on a poster board with details on how it came to fruition, and present the project to others at the CTE EXPO. Now to prepare for the CTE EXPO, I first designed my business cards on Adobe programs primarily on Illustrator and InDesign. I designed my logos on Adobe Illustrator which were the logos created in Project 3 Logo. (↓↓↓ Link down below ↓↓↓). I designed my layouts, placed my logos, and typed in fake information about my business cards on Adobe InDesign. I designed 3 different layouts with 3 different logos to create 9 different types of business cards. I printed the business cards by paper and pasted them on my poster board. I colored my poster board with crayons to decorate the poster board. I pasted additional information relating to the project like fun facts and conclusion. Lastly, I got dressed in the most professional attire I could wear for the CTE EXPO. During the actual event of the CTE EXPO I stood around next to my project, talk to the guests that walked in, presented my project to the guest, advertised about the CTE academy, and directed guests to the next presentation. I think the energy during the CTE Expo was positive because there were guests interested in the CTE EXPO, presenters smiling and talking about their projects, people walking around, and was very lively. There should be varying types of projects that sophomores present to the guests. Now instead of having posterboard after posterboard to have variety, more eye appealing, less boring, and have better attention spans from the guest next year since the guest didn't appear to be interested in the project boards one after another with similar information. My overall feeling of the CTE Expo was very serious, slightly stressed, agitated, nervous, and energetic. Also, experiencing this CTE EXPO gave me a glimpse of what it is like to sell a product in front of an innattentive audience.

My Pictures of My Poster Board Project

Link to Project 3 Logos: https://qwfepfp.blogspot.com/2018/01/project-3-logos-reflection-journal.html

Link to My Previous Blog: https://qwfepfp.blogspot.com/2018/01/wbl-seminar-2-reflection-journal.html

Link to the additional information on my poster board that the pictures represented: https://qwfepfp.blogspot.com/2018/03/business-card-project-4-additional.html

Business Card Project 4 Additional Information

For viewers from the CTE EXPO Reflection Journal curious for more more although convoluted information* 

Business Cards of Distinguished Figure

2/12/2018

Visual Design

Task

Planning Phase

Fun Facts

Explain Process

Conclusion and Materials

References

Procedure

I used Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 to design the logos. I used Adobe InDesign to develop my business cards. I got my poster board from a local retailer. I got the business card final copies from the CTE printer. All creative processes were designed by me, Wei Jian.

First up on designing my business cards, I opened up Adobe InDesign. From the program, I clicked on the “New” button to create a new document. Secondly, a new window appeared that allowed me to adjust the settings of the document. I had zero margins for all business card documents and named them appropriately according to the selected business card which I clicked OK to confirm it. For the first business card, I first clicked on the Lines tool to create a horizontal V shape that splits the middle of the document.  I clicked and dragged the mouse from one point across to another to make the two lines that create the horizontal V. Next, I clicked on the shapes tool. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse across the document while holding shift. I clicked on the Direct Selection tool to form the shape created by the Shapes tool. I clicked on the points of the shape created and dragged the points until it matched the left side of the horizontal V. I clicked on the color panel to have the shape green. After that, I clicked on the shapes tool again to create a new shape that mirrors the right side of the horizontal V.  I clicked on the Direct Selection tool again to drag the points of the shape to fit with the right side of the horizontal V. I clicked on the Adobe InDesign bar to click on File and click on Place to have the Adobe Illustrator logo on the InDesign document. I clicked and dragged the mouse over diagonally downwards and released to confirm the placing of the logo on the left side of the business card, the iconic logo. I did the same step again with a different logo, the text logo and placed it on the right side of the business card.  I clicked on the type logo and made textboxes on the business card. I typed in fake address, telephone number, and name. I saved the first draft and layout. I clicked on “New” again to create a new document. I clicked on the Lines tool. I clicked and dragged a line separating the logo and the information. Next, I clicked on the Rectangular tool from the Shapes tool. I clicked and dragged the mouse from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner to create three rectangles separating the information and logos. I made the rectangles blue, orange, and green. I placed my iconic and text logos in the same place as before. I placed my information like the previous business card. For the third layout, I opened up a new InDesign document. I clicked on the Lines tool. I clicked and dragged a lot to make the zig-zag pattern that divides the middle of the business card.  I clicked on the shapes tool to create a shape that stretches past the zig-zag line. I turned the shape to violet. I arranged the shape behind the zig-zag line by right clicking on the shape and clicking arrange to send to back. I created four new shapes again which I turned into blue, green, light green, and yellow. I clicked on the Direct Selection tool. I clicked and dragged the points of the shapes to match the left side of the business card. I placed down the logos and information just like the last two layouts. I saved my work. I did all three layouts until I had 3 different logos on those three sets of layouts. Finally I printed them for the project.

The assignment was about designing business cards to put on a poster board. There had to be 9 business cards that had to be displayed on the poster board. Same three layouts but different logos. On the poster board, there needed to be the details about the business card. The project board was required to be decorated too.

Now when I started thinking about creating my business cards, I fancied for something that I personally would like to see and create. So I started off with my logos which I wanted the viewer to see at first glance. Since I designed my logos in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017, all I had to do was copy and paste them on to Adobe InDesign to get started on the other parts of the business card. The logos themselves were a pacmanesque-monster with game controllers attached to it and text saying the word “Welegames” for the logo.  I wanted the business card to be about games because I have a strong connection with games. I was thinking of having some information in the business card like address and telephone number to make the business card have more depth. I thought about the layout of my business card and thought about all the possible ways I could design it that came to mind. Complex, simple, colorful, black and white, bland, peculiar, or wacky. I ended up choosing a simplistic design with only a few colors. In the end, complexity is not always better.

1.    You can import designs or projects from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator into Adobe InDesign so that your work can be more efficient.

2.    This project took more than 3 days to complete

3.    Business cards are lightweight and hand-sized!

4.    The colors you see are a wavelength being reflected off the board and into your eyes.

5.    Not everything you see on this board is exactly to the atomic level symmetrical and/or straight.

First off, I opened up Adobe InDesign from the computer. Adobe InDesign was the program used for designing the business cards. I placed in my iconic logos, textual, and combination logos for my business cards. I placed the same fake address and telephone number on the business card for the information to my fabricated company that I created. Below the fake information, I included my name so that people will know who the designer of the business cards is. I designed the layout of the business cards using Adobe InDesign tools which I copied and pasted the three layouts across my business cards. Finally, I printed the business cards for pasting on the poster board. The typography and type style that I used was Times New Roman because it was the font that I like the most. There were little adjustments to the texts except centering the words and changing the size to size 20 or so. I used the Shapes Tool, the Direct Selection Tool, the Selection Tool, the color panel, and the Line tool to create my business card. The first draft of my layout of my business card was a green and orange background that curved between the middle of the two colors. This showed the varying contrasting themes of the business card. The second draft of my layout of my business card was a blue, orange, and green background that was divided into three sections. This was meant to show the contrasting elements and create harmony in the business card. The third layout of my business card was a violet, blue, green, light green, and yellow layout that looks slightly wavy pressed against each other. This was meant to be stylized in a fun way so that viewers stay looking at the business card longer and enjoy it.

I do not think I did the best that I could during this project. I think that I could have done better in a multitude of aspects. Well for one, I think that I could have structured the layouts better so that the business card layouts are more symmetrical and straight. Another reason is that I could have used better colors for the business card that attracted the eye better.  The current colors are slightly stale and bland to look at. Furthermore, I could have fixed my logos so that the logos harmonized with the layout instead of having white spots where there should not have been. I used scissors, copy paper, printer, computer, glue/tape, InDesign, and Illustrator. I think that draft three layout 2 is the best because the colors contrast well with the logo and each other and has all the necessary elements of a business card.