Summary of Green Team

The Green Team (a.k.a the Environmental Club) is a club that promotes the school to go green (by recycling paper, bottles, and lunch trays) with handmade posters that are put up near trash bins. However, the Green Team does not only focus on the school. There are many other fun things that the team also does. During the cold weather season, the team would come up with different projects to work on indoor to promote the school to go green or fund-raise money to help the school or raise awareness of certain environmental issues (happening globally or domestically). During the warmer season, the team would get ready to start farming and planting on the small plot of land that the team had at the Battery Urban Farm; the team members get to grow and harvest their own vegetables.

Finding Typefaces...

Decorative: the typeface is used on a pencil holder

The typeface is not really appropriate for the object because pencil holder and reading don't relate to each other and also the design of the word "cool" has nothing to do with the feeling of being cool. 

Modern: the typeface is used for the title of a chapter in a book

The typeface is appropriate in this case because the typeface give the title a sense of fanciness and elegance which in some way matches the beautiful design above the title.  

Oldstyle: the typeface is used for the text of a book

The typeface is appropriate here because most books, since very long ago, have used oldstyle for the text, and so that means that many people are used to reading book with such typeface. Plus this typeface is easier to read when it comes to books.

Slab Serif: the typeface is used for the men restroom sign in this sign

The typeface is appropriate for its purpose because the typeface allows the restroom sign to stand out in a somewhat fancy way among the signs that mostly use sans serif typefaces.

Sans Serif: the typeface is used for the sign on the subway platform

The typeface is appropriate for its purpose because sans serif seems to be the most commonly-used category of  typefaces for signs in this contemporary world and so using this kind of typeface in a public area allows people to easily be able to read/recognize the words (especially due to the bold-looking letter in the typeface). 

Script: the typeface is used for the name of a beauty salon

The typeface is appropriate for its purpose because people go to a beauty salon to become pretty and script gives people a sense of elegance which is normally associated with beauty.

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Letter to Symbol Reflection

While using Gimp, what was most frustrating aspect of the program and/or project? 
While using Gimp, the most frustrating aspect of the program was that I had to constantly remember to click on the layer that I wanted to make edits on. Usually, I remembered to click off all the eyes on the other layers except for the layer that I wanted to view, but I kept on forgetting to click on the layer I wanted to work on. I would get so angry and confused, not knowing why I couldn't make the changes. Then I would try out different things . At some point, I just realized that I selected another layer and became mad at myself for being so dumb. This had happened quite a few times, but now I learned my lesson and hopefully would not make the same mistake again as the year went on. 

After completing the project, which Gimp tools do you feel most confident in using? Explain why.
After completing the project, the Gimp tools that I feel the most confident in using are the pencil tool, eraser tool and the path tool. These three tools are the main tools that I have used to create the images in each layer. Throughout the project, I use the pencil tool and eraser tool to draw and change each layer. I actually play with some of the features of the pencil/eraser tool such as the angle and size of the tool to fix up the edges of the lines a bit. After you introduce the path tool, I start using the path tool whenever I have to make a curve. The path tool makes each line more smoother than the result one will get if lines are drawn by hands. After using these tools so much, I become confident in using them.

Which Gimp Tool do you wish you were better at using? Explain why.
 I wish I were better at using the other tools that I haven't use in this project. I don't have a single tool that I wish I were better at using because I have been mostly using the three tools that are mentioned about and so I didn't have a chance to explore the other tools. So I wish I could be able to be familiarized with the other tools first and understand which tool(s) is/are my weakness(es). 

What would you like to create with Gimp next?
I want to create a collage of pictures and photos because I want to learn how to edit pictures on this photo-editing software. I also want to create an animation that tells a story, not a GIF.