I've quickly learned that I am truly a tactile learner. My first few weeks of learning have consisted of learning pieces of HTML and jScript but not having any practical application for them. The problem with having a paper based job 8 hours a day is that it is difficult to go home and brainstorm some kind of project you can work on. My last week has consisted of trying to set small goals for myself and learning the necessary stuff I need to achieve them. My current project list includes:
1. Album art design for Jurrasic Heat's Floor Animal album. As with any budding new local band in the Columbia, SC area, money is tight and they know that I'll do the work for free. Best part about this project is that it is all design work, so I get to work close with the band and attempt to consolidate all of their various ideas into one bit of album art. So far, the main barrier has been finding time in everyone's schedule to meet and discuss ideas, but the time spent with Amy, the lead singer, has been productive. Really looking forward to being able to take all of the crazy creative ideas in my head and actually being able to create a concrete product from it.
2. PHP. Besides HTML/CSS and jScript, I think this will be the first programming language I attempt to tackle. I have a great reference guide on it that helps walk you through the ins and outs of the language by giving you real programming tasks while explaining the syntax and what you're actually executing.
3. Logo for Spiryt Music. My old high school friend Posa has seemed to have the same revelation as I had in follow his passions. He's located down in Atlanta right now looking for a job and spends his off-time creating electronic music mixes and posting them to Soundcloud. He hopes to use some of his job money to do a few DJing sets and build up a portfolio. For this project, I'm trying to create him a unique logo to stamp on his stuff. Again, pure design work so I'm going to have to get buddy buddy with Adobe Illustrator.
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