As a senior at Freestyle Academy, there is a final project called the Zenith Project. Through this project assignment, we have given the freedom to create any project that exemplifies the skills that we have acquired in our media classes, as well as challenges us to further our skillset. The definition of zenith is “the time at which something is most powerful or successful”. Being our final opportunity to create something with the tools and equipment provided at Freestyle, it is our most powerful moment to create something successful.
In my future, I hope to have a profession as a graphic designer. Whether I am self-employed or work in a graphic design firm, I hope to work with clients and create visually appealing designs that the public can enjoy and that my clients can be proud of displaying. Given this opportunity to create a project that allows me to challenge my design abilities, I decided to base my project on creating artwork for a client. For my project, I worked as a graphic designer for a local musician, creating album artwork as well as potential merchandise. I took this challenge as an opportunity to test my ability of collaboration and working under someone else’s vision, using my skill set to bring their vision to life.
All graphic designing that I have done up until this point has only been for myself and for assignments. I have never worked with someone else’s ideas or visions. This risk factor challenges me to open my mind and see other’s ideas and create them for their enjoyment. In a graphic design profession, I would be able to have my style preference, but I would have to put myself in my client’s position and create artwork specifically to their likings as well as the likings of their intended audience. This is going to be putting strict time limits on my process, forcing me to come up to sketches in a short time period, allowing time for my client to give me feedback.
This project has been an opportunity for me to try out a potential career of mine. I was not going to let this opportunity go untaken. This is the greatest artistic challenge I’ve faced so far, and I am very excited to see where this project takes me. Enjoy!