Journal 10

Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

Team Members:
Mary Polanski
Aaron Gegas
Michael Bickley
Amberly McGee
Sarah Jerels
Kerry Moore

-- Our team's final product was the Coleman Water Filter. I feel that we all worked together as a whole to come up with some great ideas for the packaging, logo, kiosk, and final design of the product. Though we could have communicated more throughout the process to maybe think of some more ideas, the way we collaborated worked fine and was definitely a learning experience for all of us to know what to do and what not to do when working on projects like this.
-- In the end, my contribution to the team consisted of thinking of logo and packaging ideas and I feel as if some of my ideas were incorporated into the final product. However, I do wish that I made an effort to contribute more to what everything looked like in the end because a part of me really likes to polish up some things and make them look very good and presentable. This is something I will take into consideration for other projects in the future.

Class Reflection 10

Overall, I think that this design course was very interesting and beneficial to my future. I am still stuck between being an architecture major or a design major or even a minor. But after this class I definitely have a much clearer vision of what type of work I will be doing as a designer and how I will need to think and what type of fun I will have. Hopefully next quarter I will have those questions answered about architecture after completing studio. Though I may have not enjoyed coming to class every lecture, I still recognized its importance and vitality to learning more about the majors and design as a whole and in the end i did learn a few things I didn't know before. The final project was very fun and entertaining, however, I do wish we has a little more time to work on it (maybe another week...so possibly cut out the movie we watched about the legal stuff and the short videos about the designer). Again, overall I really did enjoy and learn some things from this class.

Journal 09

Coleman Project - Personal Documentation

Team Members:
Mary Polanski
Aaron Gegas
Michael Bickley
Amberly McGee
Sarah Jerels
Kerry Moore

-- The team as been moving along very well. After thinking more about what the product would be and look like, we split into different groups to discuss more about the logo and packaging, kiosk, and product design. We all equally contributed ideas to the design and I feel like we could really have a great tangible item to produce.
-- My contribution to the team has gotten better. I have been more involved with the thought process of developing new ideas and designs the group.
-- The way we have been documenting ideas is by sketching and putting together our different ideas on paper and then presenting them to each other.