Independent Component 2

LITERAL
A. I, Stephany Huynh, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
B. Paul Huang
C. 30 hour log
D. During the process of completing the 30 hours of my independent component, Paul Huang helped me review different advertisements and break down the thought process of it. He basically taught me skills that helped me improve the way I look at designs.

INTERPRETIVE
Paul and I spent an hour every Friday discussing about what worked and what didn't in different advertisements that we find online. Below are some of the websites where we fount the advertisements that we discussed about throughout the 30 hours.
Website 1
Website 2

APPLIED
Paul helped me get to all my answers for my EQ. He was the one that sparked the ideas for the answers during our sessions. An example would be during my interview with him, he helped me figure out my first answer. I asked him how a designer could create a design that appeals to everyone and he explained that they can't. He continued and said that designers focus on specific groups to make sure that advertisement satisfies their needs as opposed to making an advertisement that is trying to satisfy everyone but has conflicting ideas. And that is how I got my first answer.

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

3 Column Chart

For Future Students Who Choose Graphic Design as Their Topic

Found a website that has a ton of articles about graphic design the pertains to my EQ. I felt that I should reference this site because it also provides connections that future student could use to contact any mentors that they would need if they were to also do graphic design.

AIGA

Senior Project and ESLRs

1. I believe that the ESLR that I have excelled most throughout my senior project is being an effective learner.
2. I believe that this is where I've improved the most because throughout my 3 years of iPoly, I've never really assumed responsibility for my own learning and that is reflected on my past grades. However, this year, I've taken the responsibility and control over my grades. I believe the reason that I've been doing so is because I've been able to correlate my work to art because of my senior project. I've been able to express myself more through art this year more than any other in my past 3 years here and I believe that this made an impact on my ability to be an effective learner.
3. This could be supported by my independent component blog post where I posted pictures of my artwork. I believe that this reflects on my ability of assuming responsibility for my own learning because I took the initiative to try and apply myself to try to get into a good school and at the same time, expressing my creativity.

• See Independent Component Blog Post

2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is most important in creating a graphic design for an advertisement to persuade teens to make a purchase?
2. In order persuade teens to make a purchase, a graphic designer must know what relevant to the design.
3. A. While working on my independent component with Paul, he showed an example of a room and pointing out irrelevant things that were in a graphic design and he scaled them "eye sores." He covered each of  with strips of paper and basically cropped them out and it made such an improvement on the design.
    B. In the article What Designers Need to Know by Sharon Helmer, she said "Designers think about visual forms and how they are put together to convey meaning." So everything that a designer adds into a design has a meaning and is relevant to the advertisement.
    C. In the article 13 Signs You're a Bad Graphic Designer by Jacob Cass, he had examples of using irrelevant thing such as drop shadows, helvetica in everything you write, boxes behind text and other unnecessary things. He says that adding only things that are relevant to a design will make it much stronger and more aesthetically appealing. 
4. "15 Signs You’re A Bad Graphic Designer." JUST Creative. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. <http://justcreative.com/2007/12/06/bad-graphic-design/>.

"What Designers Need to Know." AIGA. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. <http://www.aiga.org/guide-designersneedknow/>.

Independent component meeting with Paul 

5. Next, I'm planning on researching more on understanding what is relevant and what isn't in a design and trying to apply it to my own design.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is most important in creating a graphic design for an advertisement to persuade teens to make a purchase?
2. What is the importance of graphic design and advertisements?
3. How do you think graphic design relate to advertisements?
4. How can a graphic design persuade teens to buy a certain product?
5. What do you think teens look for most in an advertisement?
6. What types of advertisements do you think teens would rather watch more?
7. How can a graphic designer relate to his/her audience?
8. What type of emotion would you want your audience to feel when they're shown your design?
9. What characteristics of a graphic design or an advertisement makes it memorable?
10. Do you think it is possible to design an advertisement that could persuade ALL teens to want to purchase a single product?
11. How would you approach designing an ad to persuade a good amount of teens to buy a product?
12. Why or why don't you think that it is harder to design ads for teens compared to adults?
13. What would you say is the best technique to use in an advertisement aimed towards teens and why? (Celebrity, Are you cool enough, or Bandwagon)
14. Are there any other techniques that would work well with teens?
15. What attracts teens to an advertisement?
16. Why do advertisers like to aim towards teens?
17. Why do you or don't you think that using advertisements that put teens down will persuade them to make a purchase?
18. Why do you think teens purchase products, regardless of it's purpose or usefulness to them?
19. How is a graphic design considered "successful"?
20. What is the best example of a "successful" graphic design in an advertisement?

Blog 16: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is your essential question?

• What is most important in creating a graphic design for an advertisement to persuade teens to make a purchase?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question?

• The most important thing in creating a graphic design for an advertisement to persuade teens to make a purchase is understanding the group of teens that the product is being sold to.

3. What are the details to support or justify your second answer?

• According to "How to Market to Teens: Keep It Real and Simple.", understanding the audience that you are advertising to is an important part in persuading a teen to make a purchase.
• Karmaloop aim towards teens because everyone who works there is relatively young so they understand what teens like
• Gaia is another online site that uses the same strategy

4.What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• "How to Market to Teens: Keep It Real and Simple." How to Market to Teens: Keep It Real and Simple. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2013. <http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/trends/article.php/3699986/How-to-Market-to-Teens-Keep-It-Real-and-Simple.htm>.

5.What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

• I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing more research and finding articles focused on this answer.