#itmm102

I’ll make this blog short since I am not in a good mood today. You see, in today’s class with Sir Bob, we had three activities. All of them require us to replicate a logo. 

The recent activities in ITMM102 were quite interesting. We have been replicating the logo designs of well-known companies and brands. There were new tools that were used to make these logos. One of those tools was the Mesh Tool in illustrator.

Before the activity started today, Sir Bob taught us how to use the Mesh Tool. It was quite a tricky tool and it needed creativity to manipulate its effect. The Mesh Tool is slightly the same as the Gradient Tool. Although, the difference is that the Mesh Tool effect can be marked on a spot were it begins to change color unlike the Gradient Tool which limits only in mixing colors. After Sir Bob taught us the Mesh tool, we began our activity. He gave us a task to replicate the logo of Google Chrome. Here is my replica:

Recently, Sir Bob has been emphasizing the importance of pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. He wants us to train ourselves in making designs using the pen tool.

Yesterday, he gave us an activity. We were to replicate the olympics logo. Sir Bob aided us during the activity. He taught us some few tricks in order to do the breaking circles and overlapping. We kept doing it until we were able to do the activity ourselves without his help. Because of the lack of time, Sir Bob made the activity as an assignment. Here is the logo that I made:

Today, as expected, was another group activity in ITMM102. This time it’s working by pairs.

Right after the opening prayer, Sir Bob told us to team-up with a partner. He allowed us to choose our own partners. I teamed-up with a girl named Charity. The goal was to duplicate designs by taking turns on each one. Sir Bob then explained to us the rules. The paired designers are numbered from 1 to 2. The first member will face away from the whiteboard while the second member will memorize the design presented on the white screen. The second member will then dictate the details of the design while the first member will do the design itself within a 5 minute interval. After the time is up, the members will then switch roles for the next design. Here are the duplicates that we made:

This day was one of the unique days that I experienced in ITMM102. Usually, me and my classmates worked independently and created our own designs through our own skills and techniques in Photoshop and Illustrator. But this time, we created our own designs by group.

Sir Bob gave us the chance to group ourselves with each team consisting of five members. I teamed up with two of my seatmates, and later on two extra members came to complete our group. The first activity was good for 15 minutes. We ranked ourselves from 1 to 5. The rule was to create our own logo design with each member giving a share on the logo. Sir Bob called us by our numbers and each member was given 3 minutes. It was quite fun but at the same time hard since we were not given the chance to plan out our design.

On the second activity, still, we were tasked to create our own logo design with a few rules changed. This time, Sir Bob gave us the chance to plan out own logo design for five minutes. After planning out, Sir Bob, again, called us by our numbers but this time each member was given 1 minute with 3 rounds. It was messed up, mainly because our design did not really go well as planned and that the time interval for each round was too small to even make a good shape or figure on the workspace. But in the end, we all learned our lessons. Sir Bob told us that when we are working in groups, whatever design our teammate gave us to edit or improve, we deal with it even though the design may be better than what you can do or worse.

Today, we had a quiz regarding the topic yesterday. It was simple. For 5 points, we were asked to compare and contrast raster and vector. The bonus item however was to give an example of a domain name in which I was not able to answer, sadly. After the quiz, we were onto the next activity.

As I stated in my previous blog, the first logo design that I have done in Adobe Illustrator was only made today. I did not worry too much since the deadline was 8:00 am of this day. Right after I submitted the first design, I then proceeded in making my second logo design. Here is my second logo design:

As always, we ended our class with a midterm exam. There were two parts. The first part was the class midterm exam and the second part was the online midterm exam. I got a good score in the second part while the first part was still unannounced. 

Last Monday, we made our fresh start for the second quarter. On our fresh start, Sir Bob asked us to create two logo designs of our own on a 1 whole sheet of paper as our first long quiz. The first part was simply our own logo design while the second part was a “referenced” logo design. After the long quiz, Sir Bob introduced us to our new lesson. The lesson was about raster and vector. Sir Bob pointed out that raster images are made of a cellular-like structure called pixels while the vector images are made of points, lines, and algebraic shapes. Upon dismissal, Sir Bob gave as an assignment. We were tasked to digitize our first logo design using adobe illustrator.

Right now everything goes smoothly. I was able to create a good layout design for today’s activity in ITMM102. Although something disturbed me during that time, I was able to finish it early. 

I was early today in my school. There were few of us waiting for the bell to ring. As we checked our computers, we found out that there was no internet connection. Sir Bob used this as an opportunity to train us in creating our own graphics for the layout design using pen tool.

I immediately took this opportunity to test my skills in creating my own graphics. I had complete confidence that time since I was used to activities like this. Here’s my work: