Your responses to these two questions need to be detailed and reflective.
1. How was your work significant or meaningful to your workplace?
2. How did your project(s) go from an idea or inspiration to a final product? Explain the processes from the initial idea to the final product and the skills that you used and developed.
I would say my work is very significant to my workplace. The projects they gave me were to help promote things for their events. Since they promote Chinese culture I focused a lot on the Zodiac, Chinese New Year, and Cultural activities. But for the company, I've made flyers, a trifold board, a school presentation, and posters that they can use long after I leave which is beneficial for them.
Most of the time, my mentor would say "We want you to do this project... First brainstorm ideas and then try some things out." So in the beginning, that is what I would do. I wrote down my idea or sketched it out. Afterwards, I would start doing whatever I needed to do to get it done. For the trifold board, I started off with researching each of them, then making a small design for what I thought they should look like. It took me a long time! I just wanted them all to be perfect. The first draft were oval-shaped but technology didn't want to work with me so they didn't look right. Then I changed it to rectangles but that took me about 3-4 different versions and edits to make them look nice. Even after they were done I was told they could have looked better. But, that went for all my products. It started off as an idea, then it needed edits and peer reviews, but after time and determination, it pays off to see the finished product. That is a skill that I have developed; patience. It takes time to make something perfect, but when it's finalized, you feel good that it came out better than you thought. I also learned that even though something might look good to you, others might point out a good flaw or give you some advice and if you take it, it is for your own good because it helps out in the end.
1. How was your work significant or meaningful to your workplace?
2. How did your project(s) go from an idea or inspiration to a final product? Explain the processes from the initial idea to the final product and the skills that you used and developed.
I would say my work is very significant to my workplace. The projects they gave me were to help promote things for their events. Since they promote Chinese culture I focused a lot on the Zodiac, Chinese New Year, and Cultural activities. But for the company, I've made flyers, a trifold board, a school presentation, and posters that they can use long after I leave which is beneficial for them.
Most of the time, my mentor would say "We want you to do this project... First brainstorm ideas and then try some things out." So in the beginning, that is what I would do. I wrote down my idea or sketched it out. Afterwards, I would start doing whatever I needed to do to get it done. For the trifold board, I started off with researching each of them, then making a small design for what I thought they should look like. It took me a long time! I just wanted them all to be perfect. The first draft were oval-shaped but technology didn't want to work with me so they didn't look right. Then I changed it to rectangles but that took me about 3-4 different versions and edits to make them look nice. Even after they were done I was told they could have looked better. But, that went for all my products. It started off as an idea, then it needed edits and peer reviews, but after time and determination, it pays off to see the finished product. That is a skill that I have developed; patience. It takes time to make something perfect, but when it's finalized, you feel good that it came out better than you thought. I also learned that even though something might look good to you, others might point out a good flaw or give you some advice and if you take it, it is for your own good because it helps out in the end.