Reflection Post

Graphics has been one of my most challenging, most fulfilling, most fun courses of my college career. When I first registered for GRA 217, I was terrified. I spoke to all the mag majors I knew. Graphics is going to be the death of me, I would say. I'm a horrible artist, I would say. I'm never going to have the time to complete all of the projects, I would complain. But by the first week in Professor Hedges' class, I knew my experience would be different than I anticipated.

I loved the class discussions. I never knew how typeface itself had its own "language" its own personality. It was amazing to see just how we are apart of this graphic design culture whether we realize it or not and how it has become the 21st century art movement in a way.

As far as our own projects go, I suprised myself. I discovered my hidden passion for graphic design! Even though at times I was making time out of no time to finish my projects, I didn't mind because I genuinely enjoyed being creative and expressing myself in a new way other than writing. This summer, I'll be interning at 6ABC in Philadelphia again. There is no doubt taht the skills that have learned this semester will definitely help me this summer.

This class has been a chance for me to discover a side of media that I knew very little about and to finally be able to happily join in the conversation about graphic design.