DESIGN STUDENT. FIRST YEAR.
Hello.
I've just passed my first year of uni life as a design student at Multimedia Nusantara University, Tangerang, Banten. Was it tiring? Well of course. Are rumours about the sleepiness of a design student true? Well.. That thing depends on the person.
My first days of uni went quite confusing. Actually I was really filled up with worries in my mind, about how the curriculum goes, which is different from school's of course; about what kind of people would I meet; about how the lecturer teaches; about how to live by my own; and so on.
But as days passed, I learned that all of those worries really depend on yourself. Depend on how you face it. How smart you manage your time, and how good you are in adapting with people.
You would find dozen of projects to do in just one week. Maybe people would suggest you to work on it days before the deadline, but honestly, I'm not that kind of person, but I still survive though.
I usually do it 1 or 2 days before the deadline, and what you'll need is focus. Because for me, sometimes inspiration comes at the last time, and that's the most important thing you'll need to design. Yes, inspiration. It would be useless working all day long without any inspiration, you would end up producing nothing.
Well, I enjoy being a design student but what really bothers me in being a design student is.. that Design is a subjective thing. That's a really big deal that every future-designer should deal with. A good design is subjective. It may look good for me, but not good for you. It may look fantastic for the lecturer, but not for me, and so on. So the grades for design projects are subjective too.
In my first semester, I faced mostly hand-work subjects which I actually don't really like. (I like digital designs more). But believe me, you'll find less subjectivity in hand-work projects then in graphic designs. And here are some of my works:
FIRST SEMESTER
The first line is COMPUTER GRAPHIC INTRODUCTORY projects: you make stuffs using softwares (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign), making posters, magazines, etc.
The second and third line is SHAPE AND FORM ANALYSIS projects: you will need to open up your mind and think freely about what you're going to make. The first 2 months you'll make shape and forms on 2D surface, and the next 2 months you'll make it using 3D stuffs like chopsticks, paper, polyfoam, and mix materials.
The first line is FONTOGRAPHY projects, (maybe most of people know it as TYPOGRAPHY), you'll make stuffs using fonts, and as the final exam you'll make a magazine layout using Indesign.
The second line is COLOUR THEORY projects, you'll play with colours using poster colours paint.
The third line is DRAWING PRINCIPLES projects, you'll learn the basic about drawings, draw straight lines without ruler, draw geometrical shapes, and start to learn colouring in the end of semester. And I'm just not that good on this subject.
The first picture is my WEST ART HISTORY comic about Camile Claudel, and the rest of the pictures are my TRADITIONAL PAINTING projects! Each of the project is based on 1 style, picture number 3 is Typography, number 4 is Folk, number 5 is Still Life, and number 6 is Naivism.
And this is my favourite project of the semester :-') A surrealism traditional painting which I named "A Sheep Coated Fox Man"; aimed to the people who is kind in the outside but evil in the inside.
SECOND SEMESTER
I'm using computer more to do the projects in this semester, except one subject which I hate the most.. TRADITIONAL SCULPTING (photos on the first line). Well this subject teaches us to make sculptures using modelling clay, and I guess I'm just not into it. I don't have the feeling where to put the eyes correctly, or how to make ears and mouth perfectly and others, I just don't like it. Each of the project needs a very long time to spend, it can be like 10-12 hours if you make it day-1. And I'm glad this semester is over, so say bye to sculpting :')
The second line is my DIGITAL PUBLISHING-1 projects, my favourite subject even in the beginning I got unsatisfying scores, because the subjectivity I've mentioned before. But I really like my last project (the last picture), making a brochure of my own event, and gratefully I got a great score! And this is also my favourite one,
My digital publishing-1 final exam: making a illustration storybook for children, and I just lovelove the result (and the score:p) and this is also my favourite project of the semester!
The first line is ANATOMICAL DRAWING projects, at first I was really scared of this subject because I thought I would have to draw the human body and its content, but it's not like that. The first picture is my midterm exam, I have to draw my silliest expression face. The second and third picture I started to learn colouring using pencil colours. The fourth picture is my final exam, building construction theme and coloured by watercolours. The last 2 pictures is my DIGITAL PAINTING projects, you'll have to draw using pen tablets, using the software Adobe Photoshop.
So that were my subjects during this one year. And actually I also got general subjects like english, religion, and art history too. AND OH! I learned PHOTOGRAPHY-1 too! But am too lazy to upload the pics 'cause i forgot to add the watermarks on it. And what's with the annoying watermarks on my photos? I'm sorry guys, but my lecturer said if you upload your original project on the internet, make sure you add watermarks on it, so other people can't use it for any purpose without your permission. WELL THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING for future-designers :) Because my senior already had a bad experience about it, his photo had been taken by a company and being used for their commercial. For me, that's cruel. So be careful guys!
Well I guess this is my longest post in my entire life. Haha!
But hopefully it can be useful for anyone or even just someone.
Thank you for reading this long post, bye! :)
DESIGN STUDENT. FIRST YEAR.
Hello.
I've just passed my first year of uni life as a design student at Multimedia Nusantara University, Tangerang, Banten. Was it tiring? Well of course. Are rumours about the sleepiness of a design student true? Well.. That thing depends on the person.
My first days of uni went quite confusing. Actually I was really filled up with worries in my mind, about how the curriculum goes, which is different from school's of course; about what kind of people would I meet; about how the lecturer teaches; about how to live by my own; and so on.
But as days passed, I learned that all of those worries really depend on yourself. Depend on how you face it. How smart you manage your time, and how good you are in adapting with people.
You would find dozen of projects to do in just one week. Maybe people would suggest you to work on it days before the deadline, but honestly, I'm not that kind of person, but I still survive though.
I usually do it 1 or 2 days before the deadline, and what you'll need is focus. Because for me, sometimes inspiration comes at the last time, and that's the most important thing you'll need to design. Yes, inspiration. It would be useless working all day long without any inspiration, you would end up producing nothing.
Well, I enjoy being a design student but what really bothers me in being a design student is.. that Design is a subjective thing. That's a really big deal that every future-designer should deal with. A good design is subjective. It may look good for me, but not good for you. It may look fantastic for the lecturer, but not for me, and so on. So the grades for design projects are subjective too.
In my first semester, I faced mostly hand-work subjects which I actually don't really like. (I like digital designs more). But believe me, you'll find less subjectivity in hand-work projects then in graphic designs. And here are some of my works:
FIRST SEMESTER
The first line is COMPUTER GRAPHIC INTRODUCTORY projects: you make stuffs using softwares (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign), making posters, magazines, etc.
The second and third line is SHAPE AND FORM ANALYSIS projects: you will need to open up your mind and think freely about what you're going to make. The first 2 months you'll make shape and forms on 2D surface, and the next 2 months you'll make it using 3D stuffs like chopsticks, paper, polyfoam, and mix materials.
The first line is FONTOGRAPHY projects, (maybe most of people know it as TYPOGRAPHY), you'll make stuffs using fonts, and as the final exam you'll make a magazine layout using Indesign.
The second line is COLOUR THEORY projects, you'll play with colours using poster colours paint.
The third line is DRAWING PRINCIPLES projects, you'll learn the basic about drawings, draw straight lines without ruler, draw geometrical shapes, and start to learn colouring in the end of semester. And I'm just not that good on this subject.
The first picture is my WEST ART HISTORY comic about Camile Claudel, and the rest of the pictures are my TRADITIONAL PAINTING projects! Each of the project is based on 1 style, picture number 3 is Typography, number 4 is Folk, number 5 is Still Life, and number 6 is Naivism.
And this is my favourite project of the semester :-') A surrealism traditional painting which I named "A Sheep Coated Fox Man"; aimed to the people who is kind in the outside but evil in the inside.
SECOND SEMESTER
I'm using computer more to do the projects in this semester, except one subject which I hate the most.. TRADITIONAL SCULPTING (photos on the first line). Well this subject teaches us to make sculptures using modelling clay, and I guess I'm just not into it. I don't have the feeling where to put the eyes correctly, or how to make ears and mouth perfectly and others, I just don't like it. Each of the project needs a very long time to spend, it can be like 10-12 hours if you make it day-1. And I'm glad this semester is over, so say bye to sculpting :')
The second line is my DIGITAL PUBLISHING-1 projects, my favourite subject even in the beginning I got unsatisfying scores, because the subjectivity I've mentioned before. But I really like my last project (the last picture), making a brochure of my own event, and gratefully I got a great score! And this is also my favourite one,
My digital publishing-1 final exam: making a illustration storybook for children, and I just lovelove the result (and the score:p) and this is also my favourite project of the semester!
The first line is ANATOMICAL DRAWING projects, at first I was really scared of this subject because I thought I would have to draw the human body and its content, but it's not like that. The first picture is my midterm exam, I have to draw my silliest expression face. The second and third picture I started to learn colouring using pencil colours. The fourth picture is my final exam, building construction theme and coloured by watercolours. The last 2 pictures is my DIGITAL PAINTING projects, you'll have to draw using pen tablets, using the software Adobe Photoshop.
So that were my subjects during this one year. And actually I also got general subjects like english, religion, and art history too. AND OH! I learned PHOTOGRAPHY-1 too! But am too lazy to upload the pics 'cause i forgot to add the watermarks on it. And what's with the annoying watermarks on my photos? I'm sorry guys, but my lecturer said if you upload your original project on the internet, make sure you add watermarks on it, so other people can't use it for any purpose without your permission. WELL THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING for future-designers :) Because my senior already had a bad experience about it, his photo had been taken by a company and being used for their commercial. For me, that's cruel. So be careful guys!
Well I guess this is my longest post in my entire life. Haha!
But hopefully it can be useful for anyone or even just someone.
Thank you for reading this long post, bye! :)
