Monday November 22nd, 2010

Today in class we partnered up and were told by Jimmy to find a few objects we had and create an interesting story out of the ideas we chose. My partner and I came up with a story rather quickly but didn't really put much though into our story we just came up with something fast and realistic. We never really considered making our story more interesting and when going back and thinking of another story we couldn't come up with anything better. It was easy to create a b.s story but it was very challenging trying to make it interesting. Or objects we made a story out of was a Starbucks double shot espresso, a girlie art supplies case, sunglasses, and cold medicine. Our story wasn't well thought out but after hearing what the rest of the class came up with it was obvious that we all had a hard time creating interesting stories. There were a couple of interesting stories but overall Jimmy was not impressed. After this exercise Jimmy assigned us a pretty challenging homework assignment. He instructed us to go home and come up with three really good ways to get potential graphic design students at Cal State LA and students not interested in design to choose Graphic Design/ Visual Communication for their majors. He wanted us to come up with realistic ideas and think hard about how we would approach this homework. At the end of class he gave us time to begin coming up with some ideas.