Professional Practices (2023)

It's submission day! Everything's done and I've finally submitted every assignment except this one. I am still considering if I should do a final post on my lemon Instagram account though, like a final goodbye. On the other hand, I'm so tired and relieved from finishing everything that I just want a break before working on my dissertation.  On another note, I was also working on my dad's birthday e-card which I was very happy with. I used to make a birthday card for my family every year with different popups or effects but since I'm now abroad, they've been changed to an e-card instead. Still cute either way. I guess it's also a destressing hobby of mine, no need to overthink anything as long as it comes from the heart.

I'll be honest since I knew I would be travelling during Christmas break, I tried to finish a majority of the project before leaving.  I created a lot of the 12 Christmas days posts before leaving the UK. I don't really have much experience with photoshop so I don't know what I was thinking, but with each day I got inventive with it and I felt as though my photoshopping skills were improving so I guess its not all bad. Creating the change in lyrics was also a slight struggle as there are only so many words in the dictionary that you can use in relation to lemon, such as citrus, rind, juice, fruit, slices or sour. @lem0nflora being a total sweetheart had commented for nearly every day of the 12 days and even gave helpful advice, bless her heart.  Next we have the RA project which is its own can of worms. Again my school never really taught us these Adobe applications so everything is self taught. I had to ask Yuin Yi and Selina a lot of questions so thank you to them. The cr...

They said this post was a violation of  their spam policyy, whyyyyy???? There were a lot of mockups used in my presentation so here are the links to mockups used, just in case I need it for emergency. Links: Greeting Card Insta Post Framed Poster Brochure Laptop Calendar Mug T-shirt The rest is using the images provided to us in the Pitching to Clients RA Summer Exhibition 2024 Assignment.

I actually had some issues when creating the presentation slides, since the design was so bright and had so many colors I needed the background to be plain in order for the design to stand out. But plain white was too horrid think about it, and I was struggling to make it work which led to the current presentation slides. Thinking about it now maybe a gray color would have been better but in the moment of presentation slide creation, I was honestly questioning my design capabilities or the lack thereof. #Prayforme Dean didn't mention anything about the slide design so either it was fine or it was so bad that he was speechless. Aside from that, mockups were also a struggle, if the background of the mockups weren't clashing with the product, then they were clashing with the slides. I just can not even.

As mentioned before I had a 12 days of Christmas posting idea, post 1 image for each day of the 12 days of Christmas. This was over the Christmas break which I was not in the country for, honestly ruined the vacation mood when i would randomly tell parents that i had to go home to prepare my next Insta post, but I think it turned out well and I'm pretty proud of myself. I tried to post around the same 2 hours everyday but it wasn't always on time. But I'm glad I tried. I also achieved the target I set for myself which was to get over 100 followers. I'm not really a social media person I like looking at memes and not making them so this was a first, not what you'd expect from a GenZ but I would this was a successful first try. Hilariously enough, this was the account with the highest follower count out of all my social media accounts so go me I guess😂!

Time for what did I eat and how was it during the Baltic Trip? I think this one is a Russian restaurant, one of the first places with ate at in Lithuania. The food was decent but interesting, the dumplings and noodle were like European version of the Chinese dumplings and noodles I was used to, I rate it a 7/10. This was a local restaurant also in Lithuania, expensive and fancy, apparently it was on a Michelin list and was recommended to us by a bar maid. But it was okay I guess, didn't really match the price. Service was a10/10 but food was 6.5/10.   This restaurant also served local food, we were trying to try all the local food in the Baltics. The rye garlic bread was so good but the rest is fine, about a 6/10 excluding the bread, the bread is a 10. This was a restaurant on an island, also a local restaurant with about an average price. It was decent, 6/10. The fish was horrible thou...