Reflective Journal Part 3 by Sofia Pereira Farré https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu en-us 2018-09-11 13:42:28 UTC 2018-11-21 11:45:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Week 1 (Sept 10-14) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/279853659 Day 1:
Ebac, we had a talk about our goals and how everything would work throughout part 3. We also did a an exercise of assestment for two graduate students over their sketchbook. And afterwards we researched a bit on interesting books on the Library.
My first idea for part 3 is creating a cosmetic brand which I could mix with topics that people would find interesting. Such as the "Hangover Face Treatment Line" or the "Political Douches" line. I want something to make people giggle but also make a serious statement

Day 2:
Ebac, I just had a talk with Leopoldo. He told me that my idea was interesting, but maybe i should choose only "topic" and make more lines about it. From what I noticied he really enjoyed the "Political Douches" idea, but I'm still unsure on what I'll be doing. I suposse I will do research today.
I just had an Idea during my research of political scumbags. What if I did each one of the politicals their own line of cosmetics? In each product of the line I could explain more about the person and show why they are so shitty. Well, if I still want to make more than one type of line, like the hangover one, maybe i could only explain about the politician in their own product from the same line as the others.


Day 4:
Today I wasn't so sure on what to do, I confess I found myself a bit lost. Monique started the day talking about some places we may find interessing things during the research week, right after this one, I took some notes and considered going some of the places she suggested in case I needed to buy something of the sort. Anyway, Afterwards I went to the PC lab and researched on some exhbitions I could go see. Thrre were some on Pinacoteca, and I am already going to Bienal with Ebac, but I did found out that Casa Brasileira is going to have an exhbition of Atelier Oi, which focus on product design, that may become one of my most strong influences. Afetr that, I researched a bit more about my project. One of my friends suggested me to search artists that use art a way of protest, since my project is about creating a critique out of something funny. I did some research on Cildo Meireles and Ai Weiwei.
After Lunch, I again became lost, and couldn't have the talk with monique beacuse the waiting line was too big. Having no idea on what to do, I decided to make a mood board for one of the lines i've been planning called "On The Hunt",  I wanted to make this have a Femme Fatalle vibe, with strong colors and scents. Finishing that, I collected a few more images to use as references for the packaging. 
Tomorrow I plan to start drawing and imagining some names for the products and have a one to one tutorial with whoever is the teacher.

Day 5:
I started the day by gathering ideas for creating my brief. Everything was going fine until i started writing it down on my sketchbook, now i'm facing an internal question: For where i'm standing I can see that my project has a strong political protest matter all over it, and although I like it, that was not my starting idea. I wanted this project to be funny and relatable to the people who see it, and I can still have the fun factor on the "Political Douches" line, but I'm starting to think that I am restricting myself only for the political part, not being able to fully express my abilities in graphic design. I am really confused, I hope to talk to Ana soon so she can clear my mind.]]> 2018-09-11 13:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/279853659 Week 2 (Research Week- Sept 17-21) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/286483900 Visits from the week:

-Museu da Casa Brasileira
-Mercado das Madalenas
-Bienal
-Galeria Bergamin e Gomide
-Galeria Berenice Arvani
-Loja Aesolp
-Galpão VB
- Museu da Imagem e Som
-Pinacoteca
-Memorial da Resistência
Domingo:
       Mercado das Madalenas its  a monthly fair where many people come to sell their products, ussualy crafted by themselfs, with a range that goes from clothes and jewelry to sex toys. While over there I found this brand called "Bergamia", which sells homemade products for the skin. The owner and producer has a chemistry certificate, and while I talked toher fiancéé he suggested me on making an interview with her to clarify my doubts, whch is something I will do in the near future.
Segunda:
     Monday I went to pinacoteca to visit the exhbitions held there with some friends, we mostly stayed at the one about feminism: "Mulheres Radicais". Everything was so strong and beautiful in visual language and also had a very strong political attitude. It's topics also embranced topics such as racism,  abortion, homosexuality and the place of woman in the world. It was an amazing showcase, and it will definitly appear on my final product.
  Then we went to "Memorial da Resistência", a place where we could learn and pay our respects to all the people who fell during our dictatorship. The air was heavy, there was a room with the street names of all the places of revelence in São Paulo during that time, places of resistence, of torture, where people were buried, etc. I remember that for me the two most impacting rooms were the one with the timeline of events that showed all the political, social and results from certain events during the years, and the other room whoch replicated a jail, which there were people talking about life during and after the didactorship with a single red rose in the middle of the room. The design of it was simply stunning, and touched me on ways is hard to describe. I wish to use the brazilian dictatorship somehow on my project.
Terça:
By tuesday I went to visit the Galerias Mergamin e Gomide and also Berenice Arvani, as well as the face-products shop Aesolp. Bergamin e Gomide had some very strong art pieces about politics. All of them were from South American countries, and most demonstrate critiques for each dictatorship they endured. It was overall very Inspiring, and it gave me a few ideas on what to work on for my project.
    Right afterwards, I went to Berenice Arvani, it was a really small galery, and there wans't much that I could acttualy use for my project there. Most of the art pieces, although they were from the graphic design area, were too geometric and did not bring me any ideas. To not be a wasted visit, I decidid to take vantage and photograph some of the colors schemes from the artworks which I found most interresting, so it can be used as reference in the future
  When leaving, I just happened to come across a cosmetic shop called Aesolp, I go in by curiosity and instatly noticed the architetual design that is was made around the sinks, located in the center of the shop, and looked more like a waterfall than anything else. Is a design really hard to understand, therefore I will upload thepictures on my padlet if your curios about it. The service was incredible, and this girl that was attending me had all the pantiance in the world to show me how evrything work, why the design was like that, the choice of colors, materials, names, etc. She also showed me the packaging which I though had this really nice idea of that the interior is not like anyother, since they all had different pictures from a video an artist made for the brand at different moments. It was a rather interesting and helpful visit, and probably the best  of the day.
Quarta:
  Wendsday we went to Bienal with Ebac. I must say that I was quite dissapointed with Bienal this year, mostly beacuse that it didn't go for the political side of things, which is something that is what makes bienal so especial. It was fine arts related that I didn't reallt feel any conection to it. But at least, when going to the upper floor I found some interesting things, all which will be linked on my research padlet. There was a video specifically that grabed my attetion called "Red Film" by Sara Cwynar, which talks about the beauty and makeup industry trouoght the years.
Quinta:
  I visit Galpão VB today, many artist used video as a media and mean of communication to spread awareness of something, right as I walked in there I decided to use that media on my project too. My favorite videos over thee were protest. One protested against Mc Donalds and how the food industry hides the truth from us, there was another one that showed the whitening of the coral reifs all over the world by making the video in black and white, and the final one that I most liked represented how the mexicans protested on the streets over the years, and how their voiced echoes in artistic ways on the city. It shows how the politics are involved in so many more things than just their people, but as well as our food, sea, and life.
Sexta:
  At last on friday, I first visited The Museu da Casa Brasileira which had the most impressive exbhition of Atelier OI, they design products mostly, but do have some architetual work. Their works are simply mesmerizing and trully amzing for the individuality and renovating aspects. I particullary liked the way they allowed us to see how they work by showing pieces of what appears to be a mixture of their moodboard and sketchbook together. I think that will be a tatic I'll try to use for my organization.
  Then I went to the exbhition of "Nossa Casa" where a bunch of artist worked on product design for the tradional brazilian house, I found rather curious the fact that all of them were made with a 3d printer. In my opinion, to make something that is related to culture by using a machine seems almost like an insult, but I did save some of their designs so I can use them for reference if I need it
Ok, I also went to MIS, but there was absolutly nothing I could use in my project on the Alfred Hitchcock exbhition, so I at least took some pictures of the posters so I can look at the color palletes used.


]]> 2018-09-27 13:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/286483900 Week 3 ( Sept 24-28) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/286569058 According to my action plan, this week I should focus on studying and researching. It is for a fact that I still have many ideas in mind and I am still unsure on what I am planning to do for my final outcome. For that, I shall use this week to look trough some books, sites, and re-evalueted whatever I searched this last few weeks.
As the days continue on, I find that I'm each time more driven to do something political. I discovered that trough experience really. Whenever I speak about the idea of my project, everything I say to myself seems null, like, it's alright but nothing so great. But whenever I think about protsting, and most commonly, about politicians, I just get really excited, as if I can't wait to get to work. 
Aftert that, my whole week is basically staying tuned on the news report and reading some deisgn and typography books I grabbed from the Library.]]> 2018-09-27 15:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/286569058 Week 4 (Oct 1-7) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/289156217 Monday:
 I spent the day finishing my research about politicians so I could start thinking on which could be related to what product, at the same time I try to relate the names of the merchandise to the worst things they had done so far, in a way to criticise how many things they say go unoticed or simply forgotten.

Tuesday: I started to sketch some products and think on their finl names, but I was suddently striked with the panic of not having the packaging yet so I could start photoshop tomorrow. So I left Ebac during the afternoon to go look for shops, and had no results, which only inflated my panic, at the end, I had a really unproductive day.

Thursday:
   Ok, after that incident from tuesday, I decided to focus only on deciding which packaging to use, with that i mean the products; then design how i want them to look like, and finish their names.
Michael said something important today, If bolsonaro is not elected, will my project have the same strengh as before? I believe that probably not, but we neber know. On the worst cases i just need to take him away from it

]]> 2018-10-04 14:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/289156217 Week 5 (Oct 8-14) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/291829994
Monday: I sketched out my action plan today and promised myself to follow it. I also finished drawing some of the prodcuts I wish to use as well the association it has with each politician.

Tuesday: I was supposed to start experimenting in photoshop. I didn't . Mostly beacuse I thought I needed to sort my products, and decide better what would be the meaning and names of each, so I kept doing that.

Wendsday:  I still worked on names, and meaning today.

Thursday: Still working on the names. But finally finished them all after I had lunch. I am very sick trouought this week, I think i will need to re-arrange my to-do plan towards next week, I'm afraid that due to my fatigue I couldn't do much]]> 2018-10-11 16:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/291829994 Week 6 ( Oct 16-21) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/297487477
Monday:
I had an assestment with leopoldo today. We talked about how my project was going, and although I didn't have any sprt of phsical evidence, my ideas were clear and research was flawless. But my reflective wasnt that good, and if i didn't made it better I could get a reffarel. Therefore I decided on investing more on the reflective so Leopoldo would be olease, so i am going to start writing more stuff and also following that planning of reflection that Michael always showed us on part1/2. Hopefully that will make things go better. I also took the rest of the day to experiment with the packaging, the forms and planifications so I can see and understand the logic behind it better. Anyway, although it didnt  work out very well, I believed it was important to learn about this, and now I will only involve myself with this when I need it when I finish what I need to do before. For that, I will need to organize myself better, and I believe everything will work out better once we are back to our normal routine

Tuesday:
Today I did a bit of research on packing mostly to print out and insert on my sketchbook. I confess I felt a bit out of tune with the work and couldnt do much. So to not force myself i did a few things, also worked on a bit of folding for the packaging
Overall it wasnt that much of a bad idea , but it wasnt that good either. Maybe it was a waste of time, i dont know, i need to get stuff right. Tomorrow i'll do it better, I cant focus on anything right now.

Thursday:
Ok, i didnt do anything yesterday. I regret that. So i focused myself do make some of the final art for the projext so i can work with it on photoshop and finally be done with it. But i am really not being able to do anything this week, i am far too tired. I will rest during the weekend so i can be more focused next week. Hopefully]]> 2018-10-26 16:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/297487477 Week 7 ( Oct 22-28 ) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/297527461 Monday:
I worked on finishing the products on my sketchbook, that actually went really great. I also had a talk with the substitute teacher, which I forgot the name, that is taking care of homerrom since Michael is sick. He and I talked for sometime, and it was very nice to get to talk to someone who does not know about my project yet. I actually was expecting him to be like " you should have the finished product already" or "What do you mean you haven't started the final piece?", anyway, things that I believe my insecurities got the best of me. But no, Instead of receiving arude feedback, ge actually was very nice and he seemed very interessted in my project. It was at that moment that I notcied I wasn't expecting any good feedback beacuse I thought my project was going very badly, but he helped me see that i was actually just having some difficulties, and that is normal, and he was very excited to see my final product, beacuse he thought it would be great.
The talk I had with him really boosted my confidence a bit and I felt as if the drawings went more smoothly and I actually had some better ideas, such as with names, designs or the messages I wanted it to pass for the public.
Tuesday:
 When I was walking to Ebac this morning, I found this pile of old megazines that were going to be thorwn away, I did a bit of search omong them, and actually found some very interesting megazines especifically for cosmetics. As soon as I saw them I though it would be a great idea to go trough them today and maybe do some collages on my sketchbook, as a way of research and to get inspiration and references for my project. This week for me is still for some experimentation, but i did already start thinking about names, formats, colors, etc for my project, and have most of them already draw on the sketchbook.
I found this collage very important beacuse it gave me ideas of color, propaganda, names, and even the prodcut it self for the project. I was able to finish all the collages and reference-gathering by 2PM, and afterwards I continue drawing the final designs on my sketchbook.
Today I continue working on the Bolsonaro's hair line and Putin's body care. For bolsonaro's I wanted the design to be very antique, very much like Granado, but I also wanted to mix in some sort of watercolors feel, beacuse I think it suits i very well. Basically the designs had a lor of green and yellow, with some barroque features. Maybe it will look a little extra, but I can change that later on. For Putin, I wanted all to be very clean and organizd. Putin is overall a very serious person, so I choose black as a background color and their's flags colors too, to give it an clean and professional look. I really just hope that it goes as well as here on the computers tomorrow.

Wednesday/Thursday:
Both of these days I stayed at ebac until late hours to have a good start on some files. I really wasn't sure on wednesday if what i had been doing was really what I wanted, but after some time, things started to look nice. I basically just worked on 4-5 files, beacuse i needed to get the hang of photoshop, since I didn't know exactly how it worked. After some practice I think I got the hang of it, not completly, but at least I understood it better. By thursday, when I looked once again on what I did the last day, I noticed i didn't iked that much the brushes i've been using, so I decided on downloading some new ones.
The whole day I worked only on one file, which was the "Face Mask" from Trump's face line. I actually really enjoyed the aspect that it had. Very bright vivid colors, mixed with an watercolor/acrylic feel, and very much detailed. I figured this was exactly what I was going for. And decided to go home as soon as class was done, beacuse I was sper tired.
I thought that maybe tomorrow I'd work more on my padlet, just to be sure it doesn't stay too behind.

Friday:
As I said yesterday, I wanted today to be super chill, so I simlply worked on my reflective. I thought about how would I display propaganda, or even make some products by hand, so i watched some youtube videos about korean and russian propaganda, which are two that i really do not know about, and also research a bit more into politics, to be sure I wasnt missing anything out.


]]> 2018-10-26 18:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/297527461 Week 8 (Oct 29- Nov 4) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/305240660 Monday:
This week we will face a public holiday, which mean I will need to give a bit more gas to my work. Last week was quite the productive one as I am heading to the final stage of my product.Once finished with the designs on my sketchbook and having started a bit of the photoshop/design part thursday, I continue working on that, and my plan for today is to be able to at least start most of them. For this part I am concentrated on designing the front of the product, which is the most important part when it comes to marketing and means of communication. I have already figure it out some sort of "style" for each brand, but since I want them all to have some sort of thing in common I decided on downloading a few brushes that have a watercolor/acrylic feel to it. So although they will all have their own characteristics within brand, they will also have some simmilarities as to think they were all created by the same person.
The day went on, and relly there isn't much to say about it. Although today was my first day working on the finished pieces, I must say that I really spent most of my time experimenting with the new brushes and figuring out colors. What I really enjoyed about theses brushes were the fact that, not only did they look similar in the effect of "real life strokes", but they even acted similar to it, and I believe that this created a nice mixture between digital and real. Anyway, the most used colors of today were the colors of the Brazilian flag and the American one. I created some nice designs and other not so nice which I will invest in more in tomorrow. The reason why there were some that didn't looked so goos its due to the fact that I am still learning about these brushes, I'm sure they will look better next time.

Tuesday:
Ever since Michael been hospitalized, everything became a huge mess. Today is the exhibition proposal deadline, and guess what, we still have no idea on how to make it. Honestly, the tearchers shouldn't have left this for the last minute. Michael, even though he has been hospitalized could easily sended the teachers the proposal so we could organize it çast weekend, but for some reason, that is apparently too hard, so they MUST leave this for last minute just we can waste one whole day of production for something that could have been easily done during the weekend. Of course i am exxagerating here, but honestly, this has messed up so much my day of production. I did spent the weekend imagining and designing how my exhbition would look like, but that doesn't soothe the fact that we had little to no time for actually writing everything as much detail as possible.
Today I sacrificed most of my time for my project, which really is more important since we have a holiday on thursday and I wont be able to acess Ebac's computers. And I can't use my own computer at home beacuse it is too old and very very bad. Therefore, I can say that I was kind of desperate to finish what I had started, or at last finish all of the backgrounds that I needed for the 21 files. So really, all i've done today was pressure myself on doing the designs, and I believe that made them have lower quality as a result. Honestly, I can't really blame myself, beacuse ebac's was ver very vey confusing with evrything. So much pressure, and so many things i needed to do + the exhbition proposal made my whole schedule turn upside down. And my action plan for that was basically: I need to finish everything I got to do about my project on photoshop by 4PM, to have time untill 5PM to finish my exhbition proposal and deliver to the teachers. So I did, overall, although some of the designs turned out poor, I was able to at least have them all started on the files, I actually started writing my exhbition proposal at 3:30PM beacuse I got anxious, I also asked for help from Leopoldo to see if evrything was alright and what he thought about the proposal, and he even helped me out with the measurements to make sure everything was perfect and I actually get what I wanted.
My exhibition proposal consisted on enclosing the part of the sink in a way of making some sort of room. The newly formed room would the  be painted white, and the floor would have vinyl adhevise on either wood or tiles, just to cover the ugly floor underneath. Then I would put on some shelves on the fake wall as a way of presenting my work and giving it a pharmacy/shop vibe. My main reference was actually "The Body Shop" physical shops, which I visited quite a lot during my reaserch week and after. I want and need this vibe of pharmacy/shop beacuse it is basically all of what my project is about: choosing rulers or even just accepting them as some sort of product you simply read the label and take it home, without really knowing what any of the things that are in there really are or what they do.
Once finished I wrap everything up send to the email of tutors,teachers and Michael. I just hope I can get the place I wanted.

Wednesday:
Techinacly we don't have school today, but since Ebac's is open and I need to work on the computers I figured, why not? So that is what I did, I planned myself on checking over everything I did yesterday and enhancing, while also finishing whatever I needed to do. It was a rather exhausting day, I spent the whole day locked in there just to have everything almost finished, or at least half way there. It went better than yesterday of course. But maybe I shouldn't work myself down to the bone everyday, it isnt good for me, or my work. Well, at least I got to finish what I needed, and I suppose I will take this holiday as a chance to rest and do some research.


]]> 2018-11-16 13:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/305240660 Week 9 (Nov 5-11) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/305240978 Monday:
Anxiety starts to kick in this week as I need to have everything ready for this week, according to my action plan. Today I will focus on somley finishing the design s for Kim Jong Un's cosmetics. I decided that I wish it to have a very clean look, with lots of red, yellow, blue and white, which are the main colors of both the flag of the country and the workers union flag. I also used the aspect of sillhouetes mostly beacuse after experimenting and drawing on my sketchbook a while back, I came to realize that Kim Jong Un had a very especific figure, one that could not be mistake for anyone else. So I took that to my advantage and made it part of the design.
I haven't met any sort of big challenge today, and thankfully was able to finish within the day. Tomorrow I will go trough all of my designs just to check on them and give them some enhancement.

Tuesday:
 So I started the day already checking out some of the designs I had already made, I really didn't do much aside from experimenting and changing colors to see what suited more to each piece. I decided on going with more brighter tones for the background while adding one sort of old-papyrus tone for where the text boxes are going to be. Fort the others I stood with the same white text box, and did some modifications such as adding more watercolor splatter ou some light detail.
There was 2 files that got corrupted during the creation process, so I had to re-do them, that took quite a bit of my time, but nothing that actually got in my way severely. I asked Alex Afonso why did that happen, and although he wasn't 100% of why that happen, he did reccomend me to first save at the desktop and then save on my folder on the Ebac servers. So I began doing that, and by 5PM I was able to finish them both. Tomorrow I will do some retouch again just so it looks pretty.
Oh yeah, in the afternoon part we finlly met our assistant. My assistant name is Isadora, I'm still not sure on how I feel about working with her. She did seem a bit tense, and I fear that I may overwhelm her somehow if I ask too much. But I'm so anxious that I cant help but to feel gratefull that I actually got some help. As a first job I assign her on searching some places that print on packaging-carton paper, justo to lift some weight off my shoulders. And then I plan with her some days so she can help me on the project, such as helping me spray paint or search stores that sell certain materials. I do believe I did not put too much pressure on her, and I hope we can work together well

Wednesday:
Okay what happen was, after Alex told me to save on the desktop first I did that. But then, I forgot to transfer one of them to my folder at Ebac server, so I had to re make them. That took some time beacuse it was overall very complicated due to the amount of detail, and no detail at the same time. The file was the "Trump's Eye Cream" and for the design I figured I make some minimalist open eyes in red and other closed but in blue, as the background was already white, it would give quite the "american" feel. It actually took more time than I thought, but I was able to finish it and go check out the other files that I couldn't yesterday.
For tomorrow I am planning on taking all the measurements I need for the templates and immediatly generating them on a website, so I can work on them either this week or the next one.
Thursday:
Today I grabbed all of my referenced products and took their measurements. The most difficulty I had was that some products were not the same size on their width and lenght, and other that had their upper part longer than their botton parts, so I had to measure their depth by using the ruler as a guide; I made the ruler touch the widest part and then follow it straight down as to have the perfect size for the product.
Since I didn't have all the products at hand, I will bring the rest tomorrow

Friday:
I did continue on basically what I did yesterday. By the end of the day, I had some free time and decided on making a test print of one of the prodcuts that I had already took the liberty on inserting and making it as one with the template. Of course thsi was my frst print, so I expected to go badly. Luckily it did not go so bad as I thought. The paper was completly wrong of course, since it was thin and woobly. And another problem was that the text was too small. Seeing these flaws were really helpful to me, since now I could adjust what did not went well so it looks good on the finished outcome.
I must confess that I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what woud I do with the text to enlarge it and still not be weird. But luckly I manage to make it re-dable. I plan on working more on it next week.

]]> 2018-11-16 13:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/305240978 Week 10 (Nov 12-18) sofia_pereira_ https://padlet.com/sofia_pereira_/aupdczmlzpu/wish/305241969 Monday:
Last week I had started making my action plan for week 10. Today I will organize at least 2 "brands" of politicians on their designeted template, Putin and Kim Jong Un. I must say that this is overral a very stressful part of the project, for instance, there were templates which was very small, whether there were other that were far too big for the image I finished designing last week. The one I had most issue with were the eyeliner  and lipgloss of the Kim's makeup brand. They were very thin, but extremely long. I honestly couldn't find a solution like a did with the other ones, where I ussualy just adjusted the image for the front part of the template and then painted underneath and added some detail os the front so it would be seamless. No, not at all, in both of this cases what I had to do so the image wouldn't  be so tiny, was that I had to adjust the whole picture within the template. Just so you can imagine; all of the templates have 4 faces beacuse it's a box, so instead of just inserting the image on the one that was the front, I made it in a way where the design would be continue troughout the template, meaning that it will have to be display as if it's being seen on a diagonal point of view on the exbhition. It was honestly not the best of product-design, but at least did the job, and it didn't looked that bad also.
I continue with inserting the designs within the templates and making sure they looked good. There was a moment where I couldn't take it anymore, so I left 2 of them undone, so I could continue wednesday where i'd assemble everything for one more review. Tomorrow I will work on and finish assembling Bolsonaro's and Trump's design on their template, I hope that goes well, and I'm not as overwelmed as I was today.
Michael and I also talked about my exhibition, during the morning. I got the place that I wanted, but he told me that I needed to get whatever else aside the shelves that I needed for the presentation. So I will probably go to Leroy Merlin after the assestment or so, when I'm less overwhelmed.

Tuesday:
There was honestly nothing much different from today then it was with yesterday. I found the process a bit less stressful mostly beacuse that the products were bigger, therefore it was easier to assemble them on the template. I did found some difficulties on the Bolsonaro's hair line due to the typography I decided on using, it was so full of curves and details that if it was too small it bring dificulty to the "costumer" to read. So what I did on those cases was simply lasso them on their orignal photoshop file and enlarge, and then fix it better once it was on the template. I also did found the same problem as yesterday in one of the templates regardig the "hair oil", it's measurements were so small! I am still not sure if I was able to solve it completly, I just hope is read-able, beacuse I tried my best on enlarging the text as much as I could. And if your wondering, I did try to do the same as I did with the eyeliner and lip gloss, but it didn't worked as well as the others. By the end of the day I was able on finishing them all, saved them all on both psd and jpg files on my memory card on Ebac's web.
After class I had my assistant help me spray some products that I have, and which were use to create the boxes of the final outcome, so I could use them on the instalation in case anyone was interesting in "tring them out". The process itself didn't took that long, but it was very difficult. When spray painting them, we had to amek the paint be equl in all parts of the surface, and if it was too much, when we let it to dry it would often make some "drips", which looked awful, so after this first accident we were extra careful. After a certain while we got the hang of it, and were able to finish most of them.
Just as some of them were painted white, there others which had been printed on, but I knew we could take that away with rubbing alchool, unfortunelly we didn't have that at that moment, so I will be working on that alone during the holiday.
Tomorrow is the final day of when I can use the computers, so I will be spenind it somley on working on the finish pieces and making sure it looks good

Wednesday:
After finishing all the designs for the boxes of my project, it is time to assemble them together and remove any sort of marking I do not wish to have printed on them in photoshop. Most of the pieces were already inserted on the template I made using the website: https://www.templatemaker.nl, which I started working on since last week. My process was overall simple;  had to choose the right photoshop image that I created, insert it on photoshop, re-adjust the size, make sure everthing stayed within the template, and after checking that all the layers were alright, deleting the marking of where I should bend when is done, so it wouldn't effect the aesthetic. I arrived at ebac at 10am, just to work with the computers. Even though it wasn't supposed to be that hard, ir really took a lot of my time beacuse I wanted and needed everything to be perfect, I also had to write a little text explaining the product and criticism the politician which it belonged to.
The process of writing and making the critique was a bit difficult beacuse it had to be at the same time funny and entertaining. I believe I achieved the result that I wanted beacuse most of them had a very witty feel to it. The witty part was achieved by using both sarcasm and a strong sense of opinion. Everything that I wrote down is based on acts, prhases or actions which they had done in the past, all of this research has been made during the first part of the project, and further more around the 3-4th week, so everything I wrote down today was based on research that I had been invested in for some time now.
There were times in which I wasn't sure if it was going well, and many times I felt extremelly tired. On those times I ussualy just took some time to breathe and reflect over what I was doing, It helped me calm down and analyse over what could be improved.
At some moment during that day I encountered Carlos, we talked for a while and I asked if he could maybe check out my project. Carlos isn't very involved in what I am doing, so receiving feedback from someone who does not know everything about it, helped me see in a  different perspective. He did said that the design on Putin's product was much more vintage-like and modern-like, which was actually a surprise to me since that was not what I felt towards it and either was my intention. It was a very good feedback, but I couldn't change everything now, I had to little time. That made me think that maybe I should've had talk to him last week, but his agenda is so full, that whenerver I try to schedule something with him he never can. And of course that is not his fault, is just that a lot of people need help too.
I countinue with editing and saving untill 7pm, which was the time I finished. I had only faced one major unsolveble problem that day; There wer some boxes that were so small that the text didn't fit, so I decided to print some little labels that would stay in front of them so the person could read it. After everything, I saved all the work of today and sent to myself via email, beacuse I don't have a pen drive, and I will not be abe to use Ebac's computers for the next few days beacuse of the holiday. I did plan on calling someplaces to print my project, but at the time I finished it was already too late, so I planned on doing that tomorrow

Thursday:
 I spent most of my time today trying to call Newcom1 and other graphic places to see if they were able to print my project, Unfortunely none of them were picking up or anwsering my emails,  probably beacuse of the public holiday. I got really stressed out about it, and therefore wasnt able to do that much today. I will wait until tomorrow so I can figure out where I am going to print my project, and it will probably not me Newcom1 due to the fact that is very far away. There wasn't really much I could since it is the day of the Holiday

Friday:
After a bit of considering in the last 2 days, I decided that maybe Newcom1, the printing store my assistant has found for me, may not be the best choice. The place is very far away and for the looks of it will be very expensive since it is a design company, and since I dont want to spend that much money I'd rather go with somewhere I know it prints well and I trust. Therefore I choose AlphaGraphics Faria Lima, I know it will propably not be cheap, as I have more than 20 products boxes to print, but at least is not as far away and unknown to me as Newcom1, and i feel more relaxed also. Right as I finish writing this down
I will send them the email with all the sizes that i need and which paper to use. By the way, Alpha Graphics does not work with specific carton paper that is used for cosmetics, and at first I got scared about it, but after some thought I figured that maybe I should simply use some paper that has the same feel. Since I don't have time or patience to go to an art store and see all the types of paper I could use, I took liberty on searching on youtube either reviews or howcertain papers feel on hand, and I actually found this extremely interesting channel called "PrintiBr" ( here is the video of the paper I decided to use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6kjt0rfN4). Couché paper is ussuay known for its more sturdy structure, so I will use one that is not glossy, but more matte for the printing process. It will have basically the same effect, as I compared some carton boxes I have at home with the video. I hope everything goes according to plan today so by either monday or tuesday I have evrything ready for me assestment due date at wednesday.

Saturday:
 I planned myself today to go to AlphaGraphics to figure out the size of the paper, ever since that eerie email they sent me saying that they only printed in couche untill a certain size. I sent all the files they needed yesterday, but at the time I arrived and talked to the attendent she said to me that they needed to know the size of the paper, and not of the image inside the paper. I mean, i did saw that coming, but I prayed that they could work it out beacuse I simply did not know the right size of each file. To worsen the matters she told me they needed to be in PDF files, and not JPG. After hearing all that I felt devasted and extremelly worried; How was I suppose to figure all of this out by wednesday if I don't have any sort of acess of the EBAC computers where all of my file are in??? I got honestly deperate, I couldn't see a way out. After a mini panic attack, I decided on sending a email to Michael explanning my situation to see if I could somehow use Ebac' computers to print my project. Thankfully, Michael was at Ebac on that moment so he awnsered me quickly and I went there as fast as I could. Michael was extremelly helpful to me, I told him about all of the problems I was facing at that moment and he gave me an explanation and even went personally to assist me on the computers. I first had the issue of the format, after changing the photoshop format to PDF, my initial thought was on sending by email, but unfortunell I found out that the format was much too big, then I just saved everything on my One Drive. I talked to Michael once again, he then taught me how to see the exact size of the file i'm using, this information was very helpful and i'm sure I will use it tomorrow when I go to AlphaGraphics. I wrote all of the informations regarding size on a little notebook I carry in centimeters. After doing that, I decided on check out Michael once again, and he recommended me to save on my one drive the photoshop files, just in case something goes wrong and they happen to have photoshop over there.
After all this has been done, I double check to see if all my files are on OneDrive (jpg,pdf and psd), and once everything is alright I head home. I will make sure to wake up early tomorrow so I can go to AlphaGraphcs still during the morning, and then work on my padlet during the afternoon and on my sketchbook at night. I hope all goes well.

Sunday:
Okay, today I finally was able to go to Alpha Graphics and print it. It took some time beacuse although I had the files on my One drive, I had some problems with their internet, and It was quite stressful to download everything so they could download it. After a very ong time I did it. I told them to print in couché 300g, since it's the closest stiffnes I could get next to a cosmetic packaging. Anyway, I did it!
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It is the start of the week, and I'm overall extremeally nervous, The assestment is next week, and I still need to pick up my prints from Alpha Graphics and work further more on my research and reflective. During the morning part i decided to check upon my sketchbook and see what needs to be improved, I reckon I did not insert much process about typography, therefore I should include more of that. Wednesday I will go to Ebac early in the morning to print some pictures as if to give reference.
By the Afternoon, my prints were ready and I went there to pick them up. By the time I got home, I figured I would look trough them. Unfortunelly, one of them came out wrong, "Mascara Capilar", was probably too big for the printer,some edges of it were cut off. Even after I folded it, it still missed the piece that it would close it. Another one that game out weird was Kim Jong Un's "Blush Saúde", it actually wasn't that bad, but I could see that the name of the product was not centralized, and that made me feel very bothered. Therefore, next think I will need to do is adjust size and place on photoshop and then send it to print again, before the last day for exhibition hanging. Another problem that I faced, that I still do not know where it came from, was with the cutting. I used a stiletto and a x-acto to cut out the edges so I would be able to fold it, but on my first try I could see that it did not perfomed so well. I think I will need to have it laser-cuted, and so I will need to find a place that does that, which is what i'll be doing by Wednesday

Tuesday:
Today I was focused on harvard referencing my whole research file, which was something I hadn't done yet. I woke up early to be sure I had enough time, but what happened next was unesexpected. My computer is old and worn down, but now it wasn't even opening websites. I was really lost. I couldn't do anything on my padlet without the computer. I mean, yes there is the cellphone, but my padlet does not run well in it. I was honestly so desperate I started crying. Some time after that I was able to go to my boyfriend's house and use his computer. And then I stayed there for a very long time, untill I had everything referenced. Another problem I faced was the fact that I didn't trust the Harvard Genreators, therefore, I decided to check on the official website to see how to do it, and so I continued on mannualy. Tomorrow, before I give in my work for the assestment, I will do everything I planned myself on these last 2 days; printing images, finding a place to laser cut it, etc.
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