This past week, I’ve been sick which made it difficult to find the motivation and energy to work on my projects. I just finished my Featured Article assignment in my Layout II class that included images I took of my subject, Morgan Magdanz of Fox Print, and written content from my interview with her.…
In my social media class this week, I have learned what organic reach is and how it effects businesses that use social media marketing as a way to get their products/services out to viewers. I learned that organic reach has been declining due to how much content is being produced to real-time and that…
This week I have been working on designing two full page ads for Design Development. I chose to do Red Bull and Adobe Creative Cloud and have received constructive criticism on how I can do better. I learned that I needed to apply hierarchy, rearrange my composition to be less decorative and more meaningful,…
This past week I have been learning how to use my brother’s Fujifilm camera for photography class and it’s been a struggle but slowly learning.
In New Media Development, we started working on an assignment that focused on creating a UX design project, creating a concept for an app that targets a specific theme. Coming up with an idea, I think about how I tend to be a part of a debate with my friends when we want to…
It hasn’t been easy to get settled back into the grind of time management, organizing, and routine of going to class but it’ll be something that I’ll get used to again. This year, my goal is to not procrastinate on assignments, to work more on creative projects outside of what I’m assigned, and to…
We started the new semester this week and it was definitely a challenge for me to get back into the mindset of going to classes again. I began to gather all the textbooks I needed this year and started to work on the first set of assignments.
I wanted to write this post about what my summer goals are as we are finishing up our classes this semester. I want to be able to start working on my online shop of selling stickers again but this time, I’m going to start making my own stickers directly instead of using a third-party…
Welcome to my blog! My name is Jess Chau and welcome to Icarus Projects. The origin of the name is from my favorite myth, the story of Icarus. It also comes from one of my favorite albums by Zayn, “Icarus Falls”. Icarus will be my online alias and Icarus Projects will be showcasing any…