Currently Listening to…
Artist: rogue wave
Song: postage stamp world
Album: out of the shadow

It’s been a long semester. I worked harder in this one semester than any other quarter or year at UCLA. There’s many things I can go into detail about as far as assignments and other design related topics, but I’ll save that for a later entry. I’m unofficially on my winter break right now because I have one exam + 1 paper left. It’s GPHD 05 which is basically my easiest class this semester. As a pre-graphic design student, the work never really stops. Actually, designers in general never really have time to stop learning and moving forward. It’s a constant fight with competition; with staying relevant.

So this winter break, I’m setting some goals for myself to hopefully keep me ahead of the competition. Whenever I set goals though, I’m always overly ambitious, and as a result fail to reach my goals. Well, this time around, nothing’s really changed, but I’m still optimistic about meeting my goals! Here they are in no order of importance:

• maintain a habit my art 20a teacher tried to instill in our class: 1 drawing a day, either from imagination and/or reality
• complete my huge drawing of a Japanese factory (potential portfolio piece)
• complete my GPHD 25 book, spiral bounded and all
• finish my personal promo pieces to send out to potential employers (ex. business card, portfolio take away material, cd)
• contact all the design studios about possible summer/fall internship
• finish one of those books that have been accumulating faster than I can read them

That’s quite a list on top of work work and play as well. I’ll let you know in a month how I do.

I mounted my last photo of the 12 required for my photo 40 class. Luckily I was able to avoid the madness that is going to ensue in the dark room lab in the final week before portfolio submission. I kind of gave up on the last photo due to lack of time and basically compromised for a mediocre photo, but it’s only so that I can put all my effort into GPHD 25. This class takes up so much time. Two weeks never seemed so far away…How should I celebrate the end of the semester? Oh wait, portfolio’s due finals week of next semester, then summer, which means……yep, 1 month to work on my portfolio and start inquiring about internships.

cleaner’s supply.

(Nikon N65 35mm, 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5)