Survey

If you're a student at SF state please contribute to my research by taking my survey:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDR3cnRlTmpfLXRXZG5hN2YwYUI1cHc6MQ

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Things to Come

My schedule for the summer.

My problem and my purpose

At the start of every semester I walked on to campus in the morning before my first class. I was greeted by the cool crisp morning air, the buzzing energy of my fellow students, nervous for the new semester to start, and the hideous sandwich boards ,advertising the Community Involvement Center, lining that path to the Caesar Chavez Student Center. The first time I encounter them I thought they weird but I was a design major at the time so I did really give it much thought. But as the semesters went on, and the signs never changed from what I saw when I frist started at SFSU (and I change to a graphic design major), I became annoyed. Did anyone take the CIC serious? If you don't know what I'm taking about they all have badly design collage and they ask the question "Need units?"  These signs reflect badly on an organization that is trying to do good in the community. Thus I have taken them on a project for this DAI 505.

Problem Statement: The Community Involvement Center’s signage at San Francisco State University is confusing, unprofessional, and not engaging.

Purpose Statement: The Purpose of this study was to identify a clear and concise way of informing students about their organization.

Let the study begin!

An Introduction...

Six words to describe me: Inspired, Easygoing, Creative, Contemporary, Playful, and Witty.

I am a recent graduate from San Francisco State University’s Design and Industry department with an emphasis in Visual Communications. I was born in San Francisco but, my family moved when I was 7 and I moved back 5 years ago for attend school at SF state.  Since moving here I’ve really felt the creative energy of the city fuel my love of design.

Looking back now I can see that Graphic Design was my chosen path in life. When I was young I would always spend hours drawing pictures in Windows Paint and looking at the different typeface the came with Microsoft Works. Though at the time I didn’t know that graphic designers had interests in those sort of things or the it could be apart of any career. It wasn’t until college that I started to take interest in graphic design. My love of graphic design started with magazines. There were a number of art magazines like Clear, Juxtapose, and HOW, which had layouts that caught my attention. Soon I was picking up books at the library about magazine layout and type design which pushed me to change my major from business to Visual Communications.

Though it has been a challenge going through the Design and Industry program at SF State I also have to say it’s been a lot fun and I’ve found out so much more about myself since pursuing this major than any major that I had considers before. I have found a community that was welcoming, a place to channel my creative energy, and better college experience than I could have ever imagined.

In the future I would love to become the art director of a small magazine or design firm that is locally based hear in San Francisco. I enjoy inspiring people around and working with others to create some amazing projects. And if I can get paid to do it even better.