Week 15

This week, Raechel and I tied up loose ends with finishing our part of the project. Every one else in the class was busy printing their materials out and finishing up their last few details as well. For the most part we have the collateral for the event on December 10th done. All we have to do is hope for a good turnout with the donations in the classrooms and during our event in which we will speak to people about Good'Ville and accept donations. Everyone did a great job collaborating, and I feel that this project will be a success. I am excited to sell those items at a cheaper price next semester with the Graphic and Interactive Design Club.

The article that I wrote has been published in the Snapper, and our class made the front page!

I also started on my Case study, and rendered it as a PDF, but after deliberation I decided to do it as a website by creating mockups and creating the interactions in a prototyping program that I prefer called InVision. I am not very print-oriented with design, and work better when designing for web or other interactive interfaces, especially in the User Experience side of it. I will post the finished product next week.

Week 14

This week, I printed out the infographic, and completed a list of all of the 100 and 200-level studio art courses, their room #, meeting times, and final times so that the installation group can know when they need to put the donation boxes in to the rooms during finals week. So far the project is going pretty good, and progress is being made across all groups. I have signed up to help run the event from 3-4 on December 10th.

Week 13

This week, we continued working hard to make this event a success. Every group is working hard on their part of the project, such as wayfinding, advertising, social media, and web. Raechel and I have been busy taking photos to capture the process. So far things are running pretty smoothly in order to get this event up and running. The web group has announced that they need each group's toolkit by Tuesday, November 25, so that they can put them into the website. We are also working on the infographic to put into the toolkit as well. The Exchange online newspaper here on campus has agreed to write an article about our class and event in order to get the word out better, and I am working on writing an article for the student-run newspaper called the Snapper, which is supposed to be published in the December 2nd article. I am confident that the word will definitely be successfully spread throughout campus to encourage them to donate, and look forward to a larger-scale event in the near future.

Week 12

Our finalized logo and event name!

This week in class, we established what groups we would each be in for the remainder of the project, and I was chosen to be on the PR team with Raechel. We are in charge of writing an article for the Snapper, creating an infographic to convince other organizations to partner with us by giving reasons why they should. We are also going to create a tool kit to explain the process of how to go about implementing this event from the Public Relations perspective.  In addition, we are taking photos of everyone working hard in order to show the process of the project.

The entire class decided that an event covering the entire campus would require more alotted time than what we have left in the semester. Therefore, we agreed to host an event in the art building, where people could donate their leftover, unwanted art supplies on December 10. Then during the Spring 2015 semester the Graphic and Interactive Design Club that I am a part of could host an event so that we can sell the donated art supplies for a cheaper price to other art students.

The goal is that one day, after we have worked out the "bugs" during our mini-event, we can implement a campus-wide version of Good'Ville.

Off Campus Event: Coffee and Critique

Today Jamie, Raechel, and I went to the AIGA Coffee and Critique at the Midtown Scholar library in Harrisburg. There was a good group of working professionals and other students like us, who showed their work and received comments suggestions on their work. It was overall a great experience and the president of Central PA AIGA, Tim McKenna made us feel very welcome. We might go back to the next one in December to actually show our work.

Week 11

This week in class we began ideation for our next project, which is supposed to reach outside of the campus community. We went through several ideas, such as a Campus Goodwill, reaching out to spread awareness about childhood obesity, more animals in a designated area on campus where students could visit every day, and spread awareness that design majors do more than what other majors may think. We all eventually decided upon the idea of a Campus Goodwill, where students can drop off their unwanted items at the end of the semester so that other students can buy them for a reduced price. I feel that this would be very beneficial to the campus community, because personally I find it difficult to afford all of the things that I need for living in a college dorm.

We then broke into groups and researched different aspects of the project, such as potential partners, physical space, budget, and general research on other places doing something similar to our idea. My group researched potential partners, which includes the Goodwill, a few different churches, and the Costume Shop on Campus. None of the churches got back to us, and the costume shop has limited space already, so we are stuck on that.

Next we came up with a more established plan which would be to have a one time event, and to donate the rest that isn't sold to potentially the Goodwill because we unfortunately decided that storage is not a good idea. We got separated into different groups, and this time my group is figuring out the space for the event.

Week 10

This week, we worked on finishing up our case study, and food container for the Campus Cupboard, which I will post photos of soon. We also finished the powerpoint presentation and got the Project Plan laminated. Everything looks great, and we are all looking forward to presenting our results, even though we didn't get the chance to donate any food.