Blog11: My Favorite Design Video

"Design is like a tool, it is a medium used to construct things, It constantly shapes society."

During our class this week, we were able to watch all the different two minute video clips that the students put together over the past few weeks. Although they were all done very well, a few of the videos stood out as surprisingly more creative and effective.
Jenn Bobbett's video was one of the more interesting ones that we were able to watch this week. Her video had both a good amount of useful information, and a well filmed and edited video to back it up. The use of blueprint paper in a red tool chest was a great way to get across the idea of design being a process that is thought through and planned out carefully. Jenn clearly identified the base of her design theory by also  using the specific environments she was in to get across how people such as interior designers view a project. One of the focuses of her design theory video was the use of examples to get her idea across. This works well, as we are all visual thinkers and more quickly understand images and real objects.
Overall, the class videos have been quite interesting and thought provoking. There will be more to come next week as it is our final week and we get to watch the second half the classes two minute videos.

Blog10: Design Theory Process Video

Blog9: My Mentor

Throughout watching the TED Talk "All kinds of minds", One person kept standing out in my mind as a person who has been a great mentor to myself in the past. This person was Mr. Melnick, my graphic design teacher in grades eleven, twelve and thirteen. 

During my grade eleven year at high school, I was beginning to realize that some form of design was what I wanted to get into as a career one day. This was because I thought differently than many of the other students in my classes and always received high marks in art classes. When I began to take graphic design classes in high school with my teacher Mr. Melnick, he was one of the only teachers in my school that I actually enjoyed talking to, because of our interests being similar. Although teaching is just nine-to-five job for many people, you could tell that it was a lot more for Mr. Melnick.

As I continued to go through high school, I always kept in touch with him and regularly stopped by his class to help other students, or just see what type of design work he was up to that day. The influence Mr. Melnick had on my school years was possibly the largest factor in my decision to continue onto college in this line of work. I can only hope that one day I will be able to have the same impact on someone going into the design field as he had with me.