The First Assignment:

When I was registering for classes, yearbook was not the first one that came to mind. But then I realized what a great opportunity it would be. The yearbook is something I look forward to every year, but have never worked on before. The yearbook at my last school was really hard to be a part of and I was not able to participate even though I wanted to. I hope to be able to bring some new ideas to the book. I really enjoy taking pictures and design and think I can contribute to that section. I hope to be able to take pictures for the group and design the pages. I also hope to learn more about layout and graphic design. I think that the key aspects to something like this is the photos and layout but also the quality. The photos can be great but if they are put on a boring or distracting background they lose that quality. Disagreements and people who do not live up to their responsibilities can also stand in the way of a good product. In the end the success of the group will be determined by the product that is put out. If everyone looks at it and feels good about it then it was done well. Personally, I will measure how I did based on how the yearbook looks at the end and how well I feel I contributed. As long as I do the best I can I will consider it a success. I want to learn more about publication and design from this class. I think that these are things I will learn just from being in class and doing the book. Both of the things I want to learn about are more experienced based so I think just working on my assignments will help me accomplish that. I hope to develop my abilities in taking better composed photos and understand graphic design better. 

The article author argues that the creative process is handled the same way a scientific experiment is. It says that originality is actually just combinations of things the that the person has seen and experienced. Those who are more creative have more flexibility of mind and trust their own intuition better than those who are less creative. Overall I agree with these statements. Those who are creative see things differently and create things from the things they have seen and re-imagined. Creative people usually also trust themselves more. It is not so much a point of confidence but the ability to see how they could benefit from anything, even if things go wrong. 

One example I have is a project I had to do last year. I had to make a visual representation of an ethnic group in an area. I first did research about the topic. I then listed all the important things I found. At first it was hard to decide what to do to represent all the ideas. But after multiple drafts I figured out a way to depict what I found and eventually created something I thought looked really good.