Three month plan, part 1

The first quarter of my Junior year in Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati started Monday and as you can imagine the assignments are already flying. Starting this blog is actually one of those assignments. Historically I'm not much of a writer so without academic prodding I probably wouldn't be here. The good news is that I'm usually pretty funny so it might end up being somewhat entertaining. The goal of this exercise is to get us, the students, used to writing about our design thoughts , experiences , gripes, musings, ideas, etc. I will be blogging about an assortment of topics during the next 3 months and if all goes well may continue on after the class has ended. Topics of my professors choice will be elaborated upon by me twice a week.

OK, so, second to starting this blog I'm to write about my goals for this coming quarter and describe how I will attain them. Lets call it the 3 month plan. During the next 3 months I plan to;

Update my portfolio so I can get a new co-op for the Spring. I'm excited to get working on this and tighten up some of my projects so they're easier to understand. Portfolio reworking always a struggle but well worth doing. -Specifics will be griding out a template to work within and having other people outside of design review my portfolio. I always take it for granted that designers will be the only ones looking at it but this is not the case.

Improve my sketching skills. -Specifics will be backsketching my current projects and consistently taking time each day to sketch. I'm studying other designers sketching styles and narrowing what could work best for me.

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Get ready all, it's only just begun........

J