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this mind map shows all the different sections/ booths that the sprint center event could have. Now the project is moving in the direction of helping people find jobs and be able to prepare for those jobs.

focusing on helping the unemployed find job that that is right for them.
Many things about a persons personality can help to direct a person toward a specific career.

this shows six different types of people. Once a person had discovered their personality type, they can learn more about what jobs would suit them using this cards

these cards display a range of jobs that would fit the selected personality from above

this form will help the mentor to determine a persons need

9 being the highest and 45 being the lowest need 

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Experience Documentation

PRACTICAL

The glossy color samples, on the left and right sides of the diagram, show the viewer what colors are available. By having the color sample extend off the wall into a convex shape, the viewer can see how light will reflect off of a rounded painted surface, just as it would on an actual car. 

PERSUASIVE

This wall of color choices persuades the viewer to walk up and personally interact with the display. The high gloss texture of the smooth round buttons and the unclear messages, which can be revealed by sliding the panels, encourages spectators to slide the panels themselves.  

POETIC

This is one of the most beautiful sites in the whole place; as it should be. The lighting illuminates every square inch of the fresh painted body and adds definition to its subtle crisp curves. Centered on its platform and blocked of from all the other average normal cars, this adventures mass of muscle takes all the glory. As you look in the open door at the comfortable low seats and the spacious interior you can't help but picture yourself sitting in it. They wont let you sit in this one. They keep it reserved for the elite. Just like you when you own yours.

ProPractice_Pricing&EthicalGuidelinesHandbook

These are three things that I learned while reading the "Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines".

Copyright laws

In 1989 a law was passed that protects artists work automatically, from the moment of creation, without inscribing a copyright law. I thought that designers and artists always had to pay to have something copyrighted in order of it to protected.

5 Phases of environmental design

Programming- establish design criteria

Schematic Design- solving problems with concept development submit designs

Design Development- refine accepted designs

Contract Documentation- fully documented for implementation and is started

At this stage, any changes by the client can increase the bill as they are not in the original accepted concept

Contract Administration- quality checking to make sure production deployment and shipping go smoothly - payday

Billing

I didn’t realize that a designer could be payed on an hourly basis. I thought that all designers requested a lump sum at the beginning of a project. Requesting an hourly rate can be good and bad. It will insure that the time put in will represent your wages, but it will not insure that you make a certain amount. Being an hourly paid designer will not give you the benefit of knowing how much money the project will provide.

Explanation of project and design solution

How can a community-centered environmental experience be used to raise donations and rally participation, towards providing necessities to people in need? This project will be used to facilitate charitable interactions between the poor and the working people of Kansas City.

            I will communicate to the people of Kansas City through experiential printed and environmental media. I will promote the building of relationships between these two groups of people. My Design solution will include the ability for the people in need to authentically express their needs to the givers. I will educate the community on the true situation of Kansas City’s poor individuals and ways we all can help. Everyone has something they can do, and know gift is too small or unwanted. We will not only be saving and improving lives, but we will bringing everyone together; Uniting the great community of Kansas City.

Research has led me to the understanding that, more than anything, donors are motivated by their own experiences and values. A review of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs reveals many of the reasons that people donate fall into the higher categories of love/belonging/social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization. The top five reasons that people generally donate to charitable causes are personal experience, make a difference,  fix a social problem, recognition, and personal beliefs. People often say they donate or volunteer in order to “make a difference.” This phrase means many different things to many different people. Some people want to make an impact in the lives of an individual person. They would like to see a lasting and tangible change as the result of their contribution. They may not even be concerned with how long this change takes. Other people want to see an immediate impact, for example food distributed to those who are hungry and other types of emergency aid. Still others have a long term vision for a societal change they want to see take place. Another element of “making a difference” is simply a grateful spirit that wishes to give back to society.

I will communicate to the people of Kansas City through experiential printed and environmental media. I will promote the building of relationships between these two groups of people. My Design solution will include the ability for the people in need to authentically express their needs to the givers. I will educate the community on the true situation of Kansas City’s poor individuals and ways we all can help. Everyone has something they can do, and know gift is too small or unwanted. We will not only be saving and improving lives, but we will bringing everyone together; Uniting the great community of Kansas City.

the st. louis arch

St. Louis Gateway Arch
The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park was established on the banks of the Mississippi River, on December 21, 1935, to commemorate the westward growth of the United States between 1803 and 1890. Cost for the $30 million national monument was shared by the federal government and the City of St. Louis.

The park features the Gateway Arch, designed by architect Eero Saarinen who won the design competition in 1947. The stainless steel structure rises 630 feet high from a 60-foot foundation and spans 630 feet at ground level. Its classic weighted catenary curve sways 1/2" - 1" in 20 mph wind. Construction on the nation's tallest memorial began in 1961 with the "topping out" in 1965 and dedication in 1966.



st. louis arch museum of western expansion

Gateway Arch Pictures: Saint Louis, Missouri Stock Photos & Fine Art Images

These two photos were taken by Richard Wong. http://www.rwongphoto.com/Missouri.html


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Special Thanks to Richard Wong

An incredible Photographer 

with an amazing selection of 

Fine Art Prints

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Career Goals

Justin Blake Barnett

After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute I will be able to make my next career step of working at a design firm. There I will strive to become the art director, which will give me the experience needed to maintain my own design firm. I plan to grow my design company from the ground up, while instilling ethical and moral values at its core.

Before I graduate I will send my resume and portfolio to as many design firms as needed to insure that I will have a job after graduation. Working at an actual design company will allow me to improve my skills as a professional designer and my ability to communicate with clients. I will continue to do design work for people, outside of work, whenever I can. My goal at this new job is to become art director, continue to learn as I work, and do side jobs whenever possible.

Acquiring the position of art director will not be the end of my clime up the corporate ladder. I plan to be an excellent team leader and a respected mentor and teacher as art director, which could get me noticed and offered a job as senior partner. As I work toward that goal, I will continue to develop and expand my own design company volunteering after hours whenever possible.

            As I near the end of my senior year, I realize how close I am to accomplishing one of my life’s goals of graduating from college. Now the term “goals” has a new meaning to me. I no longer see them as distant hopes or dreams, but rather as the road to my apparent future.  

degree project question

Degree Project Question:

How can an environmental experience be used to solicit contributions and encourage people to participate in charities that facilitate interaction between willing donors and people in need?

DP_My Dream Job!

Today I was asked what my dream career was?

To be the art director of my own graphic design firm (JustB’), would be my dream job. JustB’ would be globally recognized as an ethical design firm with a mission to put an end to erroneous false advertising by exposing its purpose of deception and exploitation.

DP_Degree Project Feedback

Veronica H talked with me about her and my degree project today. see comments \/

1. What is the design problem you will solve? Designing an interface for the research scientist database and refining the process for reviewing research papers.
2. What will you communicate? Persuade and educate
3. Audience and context? Research Scientists – context: Interactive database.
4. Content? Reviews from authenticated research scientists  

 Final Question for Veronica:

How can an interactive database encourage an open peer review among research scientists while making research papers more accessible to researchers and reviewers?

Business Card Designs

web page for free credit card machine

vectored logo for the St. Charles paramedic association

decal for the bass drum