Author: megangeyersmith
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Fin
As I look back at this semester, I am very happy that I took this course. Though there were a few things that were more challenging, most of it was play, at least for me. I love the chance to be creative, no matter what form. I feel so lucky that I had the opportunity…
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Brother, Can you spare a Pathfinder?
I chose to create a pathfinder on 1930s America. I modeled my pathfinder after the one in class that was about a particular country. I thought that if you could make a pathfinder for a country, then surely, you could make a pathfinder for a decade. Space and time are the same after all, right?…
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Looking For Books in all the wrong Places?
This week, we needed to create a short database video tutorial. I decided to create a video explaining how to use the catalog to find an item in a specific part of the collection by narrowing search results. I was actually just asked how to do this by a patron, so I thought it would…
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Nobel, Here I come!
This week in class we worked on a gamification project to teach people how to use the Rebecca Crown Library. At first I had the idea to do a scavenger hunt with Jumanji clues using QR codes. But I went in a different direction and I decided to make a code about how to At…
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Paper Girls Book Trailer
This was an incredible project to work on. This is the second time that I’ve used VSDC movie editor. I learned a lot from watching different tutorials. The good things about working on a project like this when you don’t know everything you need to know in order to make it happen, you only need…
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Banned Books Week Instagram Post and Flyers
This week, we created mock-up advertisements for library events. I designed the Instagram post first. In The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Robin Williams said that warm colors attract attention. I chose orange for Banned Books Week because orange is usually used to indicate danger or warning. Traffic cones are an example of this. Orange is also…
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Comics Plus: A Brochure-Making Adventure
I love design! Art was my favorite class growing up. Reading Robin Williams’ The Non-Designer’s Design Book was fascinating because I operate in art on a very intuitive level. Williams made explicit exactly what I had been doing on autopilot without knowing why I was doing it. I try to stay away from developing art…
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The Toils of Inventories
Jonathan, Jenny, and I removed ourselves from the class Zoom and entered our own, separate Zoom room. I was the only one whose name didn’t start with the letter “J,” but I tried not to let my nerves show. “Make me a makerspace for under $3,000,” our professor had said just moments before. The prompt…
