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Reflection for Name Design
1. Describe the process when creating your name design project. How was the process helpful or not so helpful for you?
When I was working on the four initial drafts, ideas keep on coming into my mind, but those are not exactly what I had in mind. I wanted a design that integrate both parts of my name, the Qing and Ling parts. The circle design came close to what I wanted with the my name fitting into one circle to show unity. As I worked on the two full page drafts, I tried a different way of expressing my name within the circle, which was writing the Qing part right-side up and the Ling part upside down. This design didn't turn out to be very good because many people had trouble understanding the design. It was around this time that I came up with the design that I used for my final work. I came up with the design during a college seminar. I was bored at the meeting, and so I started doodling on the notebook, playing with different fonts and sizes for the letters of my name. When I enlarged the design onto a full page paper, the design looks simply and plain. I tried many out different types of flower design to fill up the negative space, but those floral design just looked so random. Then Carmen suggested me to put a flower vine around the Q to make it stood out. I thought it was a great idea and added on because flower vine is one of the many things that I like. I also added a simple flower vine border around the final draft to frame my name. I did try out different colors but I chose green at the end because my favorite color was green. The process was helpful for me because it allowed me to visually look at the different ideas that I had for the project and chose the best one that fitted the concept that I wanted to show.
2. How does your name design represent you? What components did you use to visually tell the viewer about yourself? (composition, font style, images symbols, colors, etc.)
The name design shows that I am one whole person even if I have two similar words in my name. I combine the two words together because they are very similar due to the fact that they are different by one letter. By using the different size and font style, I highlight the two letters (Q & L) that differentiate the words of my name. Since both words end in "ing," I only write "ing" one time especially since I have combined the Q & L together. The floral design shows that I like flowers and that my favorite color is green. I actually like garden with archway that has flower vines growing on it, and the flower vine on the Q expresses my fondness for the type of garden with flower-vine archways. (I want to draw roses instead of simple flowers, but the roses that I draw don't look as elegant and pretty as roses should be and so I stick to the simple flower drawing that I know how to draw.)
3. How did you create a focal point or emphasis your design?
I created the focal point of my design by writing the letters Q and L bigger than the other letters of my name. Instead of showing the Q and L as two separate letters, I combined them together to represent me as one person who had a name with two words that ended the same letters ("ing"). I put flower vine on the Q to differentiate the Q from the L. In a way, the initials of my first name was the emphasis of my design.
4. What was the most difficult part of this project for you? Why?
The most difficult part of this project for me was to pick a design that best represented myself because I had different ideas for the name design project and each of design showed a different side of myself. It was hard to choose which side of myself that I wanted others to know about. At the end, I wanted to show how that my name was consisted of two words and that I was not Qing or Ling, but Qing Ling together.
5. Are you satisfied with your project? Explain your answer.
I am satisfied with my project because the design unites both words of my name and integrate them in the way that the two words become one entity. The floral parts make the whole design looks prettier and not so simple. As a whole, the design show my favorite color and the idea I want to express about my name.
6. If you can change anything about your design, what would you change or do differently?
If I can change anything about my design, I would probably want to get rid of the "ing" part and centralize the QL to emphasize my initials more. I also want to make the L stands out more than the Q because that is the only part of my name that is different from my sibling's name.
When I was working on the four initial drafts, ideas keep on coming into my mind, but those are not exactly what I had in mind. I wanted a design that integrate both parts of my name, the Qing and Ling parts. The circle design came close to what I wanted with the my name fitting into one circle to show unity. As I worked on the two full page drafts, I tried a different way of expressing my name within the circle, which was writing the Qing part right-side up and the Ling part upside down. This design didn't turn out to be very good because many people had trouble understanding the design. It was around this time that I came up with the design that I used for my final work. I came up with the design during a college seminar. I was bored at the meeting, and so I started doodling on the notebook, playing with different fonts and sizes for the letters of my name. When I enlarged the design onto a full page paper, the design looks simply and plain. I tried many out different types of flower design to fill up the negative space, but those floral design just looked so random. Then Carmen suggested me to put a flower vine around the Q to make it stood out. I thought it was a great idea and added on because flower vine is one of the many things that I like. I also added a simple flower vine border around the final draft to frame my name. I did try out different colors but I chose green at the end because my favorite color was green. The process was helpful for me because it allowed me to visually look at the different ideas that I had for the project and chose the best one that fitted the concept that I wanted to show.
2. How does your name design represent you? What components did you use to visually tell the viewer about yourself? (composition, font style, images symbols, colors, etc.)
The name design shows that I am one whole person even if I have two similar words in my name. I combine the two words together because they are very similar due to the fact that they are different by one letter. By using the different size and font style, I highlight the two letters (Q & L) that differentiate the words of my name. Since both words end in "ing," I only write "ing" one time especially since I have combined the Q & L together. The floral design shows that I like flowers and that my favorite color is green. I actually like garden with archway that has flower vines growing on it, and the flower vine on the Q expresses my fondness for the type of garden with flower-vine archways. (I want to draw roses instead of simple flowers, but the roses that I draw don't look as elegant and pretty as roses should be and so I stick to the simple flower drawing that I know how to draw.)
3. How did you create a focal point or emphasis your design?
I created the focal point of my design by writing the letters Q and L bigger than the other letters of my name. Instead of showing the Q and L as two separate letters, I combined them together to represent me as one person who had a name with two words that ended the same letters ("ing"). I put flower vine on the Q to differentiate the Q from the L. In a way, the initials of my first name was the emphasis of my design.
4. What was the most difficult part of this project for you? Why?
The most difficult part of this project for me was to pick a design that best represented myself because I had different ideas for the name design project and each of design showed a different side of myself. It was hard to choose which side of myself that I wanted others to know about. At the end, I wanted to show how that my name was consisted of two words and that I was not Qing or Ling, but Qing Ling together.
5. Are you satisfied with your project? Explain your answer.
I am satisfied with my project because the design unites both words of my name and integrate them in the way that the two words become one entity. The floral parts make the whole design looks prettier and not so simple. As a whole, the design show my favorite color and the idea I want to express about my name.
6. If you can change anything about your design, what would you change or do differently?
If I can change anything about my design, I would probably want to get rid of the "ing" part and centralize the QL to emphasize my initials more. I also want to make the L stands out more than the Q because that is the only part of my name that is different from my sibling's name.
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