This past week has been a good one for BlendZ. As it was parent teacher conference tuesday and wednesday, we sold smoothies. Proudly we sold out completly out of one flavor and almost selling out on the other flavor. We sold roughly over 150 smoothies. However this all took and lot of preparing and dominating before. Now, instead of splitting up in different groups to work on projects, the crew has all split up as different directors; myself being the director of art and design. We found that this new shift in management would suit us more. Although before out conference sell out, I had 3 pending projects that I tackled during the process. 1) Although the logo was relatively finished I had to make sure everything was in-tact and with no mistakes because are logo is what would represent us in many different ways. Therefore, after finishing it completely I sent it out to my fellow directors. Hence, our logo finally being done and applied into the many different areas. 2) Once the logo was done my next focus was to make signs and posters for the conference. In doing so, I found myself adding onto my fruit character family with a new fruit: a blueberry. While creating it I realized that I was following a similar creation wight the fruits I made. This not only made me feel proud, but also really engaged into finishing it as quickly and as detailed as possible. After finishing the signs and posters for the our full day conference sell, I moved onto my next task. 3) I had been thinking about this project for a while because it is truly an important one for the company: hats. We need hats for two main reasons: sanitation and style. Therefore, I created several designs in order to present and ask for feedback to my fellow innovators; however, this time I presented my information differently than when I present the logo. Why? Because when presenting the logo I not only realized my own faults, but I learned and pivoted from them. In that case, I started by creating a survey which could automatically record all the data that the entire BlendZ crew would fill out. This resulted in and easier base of data to then finalize my choices to my final presentation of the hats. When creating the survey I knew this time that I had to imagine I was the person taking the survey and depict every hat option that I would think of while taking it; in order for the visualization of the hat choices to be heightened. While I waited for my peers to complete the survey I didn’t just sit down and wait, I began researching. Looking for a supplier to make the hats and the aprons that we needed for the BlendZ crew. To start off I found 3 suppliers. Which led me to calling each one to figure out a price range for the customized hats and aprons. After bargaining for about half an hour with them for a good price and a good quantity I was able to get a relatively good price: 4 dollars per hat and we would purchase 20 hats. This led me to create another pending project: email the supplier. Once the bargaining was completed I confirmed that all my survey data was complete. Leading me to finalizing the hat design and presenting three options to my class. Those three options revolved around the helpful data I got from my survey. However, that presentation and group talk really finalized our choice which I can say we are all very enthusiastic for. Not only was the hat design finished, but after coming in one saturday with the BlendZ crew to work on things the apron design was also done. During the process of designing I was able to learn how to literally take every idea out from my head and put it onto adobe illustrator or a doe photoshop. Honesty, those two applications I can proudly say are becoming more and more known to me each day. Although there is always room to improve and learn new things from the applications I have been able to utilize them in a manner that I never saw myself doing so. Check out the finally hat and apron options below :)
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This semester has gone by very quickly and I can’t believe that it is already parent teacher conferences. Although, looking back, I know that I have learned a lot. Whether it was from presenting during I-Week to even starting a business in class. However, instead of listing everything I learned I am going to share the most valuable experiences from my memory. First off, we began with I-Week. Coming back from summer I was determined to challenge myself the year that was coming up. I wanted to go beyond what some might believe is my true potential. Moreover, I wanted to push myself. I wanted to stand out, succeed, and prove to myself that I can go beyond what I thought was my true potential. On that note, I challenged myself to what I am proud to say used to be my weakness, presenting and taking leadership. I was the first to raise my hand up be in charge of presenting Sabes to all the students, teachers, and parents of the Innovation Academy. Now reputation had changed, no more was I looked upon as the nervous caterpillar but now as the confident butterfly of presentations. With this confidence I gained by succeeding, led me to doing well in my next presentation: Pitching my start up idea, The Spot. While pitching The Spot I began to realize that when I planned and organized what I wanted to present I was able to present as if my words were a soft brush and the audience was a rigid canvas, I had to paint them as my convincing result. Therefore, I truly experienced that with great organization and enough practice I can really paint an audience a beautiful art piece. This lead to the start of the business of BlendZ. Starting off BlendZ I was ecstatic excited to work on our logo. Although I failed several times during the making, in the end I learned how to present my work and how to receive feedback. Not only receive feedback but learn, adapt, and edit from it. This experience was truly inspiring for me because it gave me the opportunity to design which might be something I want to pursue in the future. Besides failure, after overcoming it I was able to create my fruit characters. Some innovators might say that these fruit characters are like my children because I am so proud of them and I just want to show them off. To be able to fail throughout the process and be able to create beautiful work that you are proud of at the end is priceless. It is those types of experiences that I was able to truly learn about designing logos, characters, posters, signs, etc. On an ending note, this semester I was able to become more independent because I was able to pursue my art project an dedicate myself to it every thursday from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, even passing school hours to advance on it. In the end I was able to produce the type of result I was looking for. Not only these but I organized my project step by step and even filmed throughout the process to later come out with a video during the process. I believe that this independence I have been given has really helped in strengthen my focus.
As I have learned a lot this semester I want to continue to grow in developing myself as the best student, artist, learner, speaker, leader and innovator that I can be. By doing this I need to continue to have a growth mindset in all the situations I am faced with. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” ~ Pablo Picasso |
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