Today, Team Mawan worked hard from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:15 pm to 4:30 pm to finish our final presentation. Mr. Self tasked me to design hangtags and possible alternative logos for Vector Textiles, a cool way to integrate graphic design into our market research. After slaving all morning and dealing with a mildly infuriating program, I finished some logos. I then proceeded to come up with phrases and information to be presented on possible hangtags on clothing that utilizes the Vector Textiles technology.
It was considerate of Mr. Self to task me with a design project since I came into the work experience program looking for another aspect of design: marketing. In order to create an effective, eye-catching product, certain phrases need to stand out more than others. Mr. Self also wanted us to focus on how to build the brand, and with the right design on the tags, it was the perfect attention-grabbing tag. The whole team worked hard on our final presentation, which turned out to be 30 something slides, and awaited Mr. Self’s arrival at HQ Raleigh. We booked a conference room and headed out for lunch at Cookout. Along the way, we rolled down the car window to accept newspapers a guy on the corner was handing out, and it turned out to be a really sketchy read.
We arrived back at HQ and set up the conference room.
Parker Perkins joined our team on Monday, due to an unforeseen conflict in his work experience. He helped a lot with the presentation and integrated well with our market research project.
Mr. Self arrived and we began our presentation. As the resident graphic designer, I was so busy working on the hangtags and alternative logos that I didn’t get a chance to check over the presentation and help with formatting. Mr. Self recognized the lack of coherence in our draft presentation and gave us notes and pointers to help make it stronger. He gave lots of feedback and advice that was really helpful and made sense. Tomorrow, Team Mawan & Parker are looking forward to making the right changes and present our final presentation to Mr. Self!
