Day 12

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose?” (Shakespear)

A part of Monday’s class was spent discussing the GAUGE speaker event. We were giving our thoughts on what we felt about Ismeal Obregon’s presentation and the name of his company. I didn’t realize that Oishii Creative, the name of his company, could have parts of his name in the in it. He mentioned that his friends called him Ish, oISHii. And then there is the big O, which reminds me of Obregon. Jimmy brought up the point that he is not shown or seen anywhere in his website. And in doing an image search on him not a lot of images of him pop up. Why is that? Most of the class was a little disappointed in his presentation, I guess they didn’t get the five star presentation they were looking for. I couldn’t compare it to anything else seeing as though I have never been to a GAUGE speaker event before, but his presentation wasn’t what I expected. The part of Obregon’s presentation that caught me of guard was that he didn’t speak a lot. He only talked for 5 minutes and the rest of the rest of the time was spent on questions and answers. Each person has there own idea on what a good speech/presentation/talk should go.

We then changed the topic of conversation to discuss our creative briefs. I didn't not have the easiest time working on it. Especially since we had to do it on the movie Powers of Ten, something that I had yet to get a grasp of in my mind. Jimmy was going over some of them in class, I began to loose some of my nerves as I was hearing some of the things my other classmates had written on there briefs. He then showed us some from Graphic Designers. It was interesting to see what other designers do.

The next part of class we spent going over our ten images one headline assignment that was assigned a couple days ago. Going over it know did refresh my mind on what it was that we had worked on. My headline is “what dreams are made of” using images of what people think dreams are made of. I made a list of various things, it was a very broad selection; I used the city skyline and a joint. At the end Jimmy had asked me about what my process on working on this assignment was like. It’s a little difficult to explain to some one else what goes on in my mind, it’s definitely not a lot, but it is complex. When I keep thinking about something, in this case the assignment, my mind just takes me places. Then I get that moment of eureka and I begin to put that plan in motion and see where that takes me. I hate to say it, but I do judge my ideas before going through with them, I guess I still need to work on that.