It’s the end of the school year and it’s that time students to show off their best work. Fortunately I found out about them before it was too late and even submitted some work I did for community classes I took in Fall ’08. Overall, it was such a fun, exciting, and inspiring two day event. (I went to both Sac City College and CSU Sacramento shows.)

I’ll start off with the first show.  This was an all day event with design-offs, CPK for dinner, awards, animation reel, and a surprisingly impressive gallery considering this was only a community college. This was my first time going to a design show since I’m not a graphic design student yet. I loved the environment because everybody shared a passion for design. Also being a smaller college, it was very easy to just approach people. I met some cool people there and caught up with some old instructors. One person I met in particular, Slavic, had a really unique portfolio because all his stuff looked like professional projects that a designer would do, not a student.

The website I submitted  took home a silver award. It was my final project in Beginning Dreamweaver for a Sacramento Driving School. Also much to my surprise a 3D model of a mountain bike I did for Intro to 3D modeling took home a gold! I will have to post some pics of that model, but after reformatting my computer, I lost the renders of that. Anyways I got this awesome prize package for the gold award. The wrapping paper from Sol Design Group is going to be my new posters because they look way too nice to be ripped up by some unappreciative person.

The second show at CSU Sacramento was even more impressive and just what you’d expect from an impacted program. Sacramento doesn’t seem like the most exciting place for design, but this huge room certainly contradicted that. It was much larger in terms of scale so meeting people was much harder, but there was so much cool stuff to look at. There were maybe 2 or 3 people that really stood out in my opinion. I enjoyed the dedication, sweat and countless sleepless nights students poured into these final projects.

This really re-energized my motivation to keep working at it. If these people are my competition, then I have so much to work on still. For the people reading this, you get to experience the next 2-3 years with me as I go through the same rigorous program. It’d be very interesting to see how my work will improve in the next few years when looking back on these posts.