When I was first asked to come in, and meet with the directors, I just assumed it was a preliminary meeting. Well, as soon as I sat down, they said, “What you got?” After getting over the initial shock of what I was being asked (and glad that I actually had an idea) I walked over to the white board, with marker in hand, and explained in a couple of brief sentences what my idea was.
They loved it.
Now that the project was officially mine, I started getting really excited (which I normally do at the beginning of every project). I was most excited because it wasn’t going to be a typical Photoshop collage; It was going to be something ‘in real life’, that would later be incorporated into the computer. It reminded me of being in the 4th grade, in Art class, when we would get a new assignment: my mind would race in a thousand different directions, and with each thought, my heart would either give its approval or disapproval, to the proposed creative solution.
The point of the project was to give high school students a quick reference guide to all the Tech Prep AAS Degrees that Lone Star College offered. It was to be a poster that would hang in the high school counselor’s office. The student could simply scan the poster to find their area of interest, and then see which LSC Tech Prep AAS Degree they could get for that field.
Some of the items in the collage that I am dying to elaborate on are:
- For the Hospitality & Tourism category, I used real photographs and a postcard of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from when I visited there back in circa of 1999.
- For Information Technology, I am so proud of my CAT5 and RJ-45 dude. I have RJ-45s as his head, hands, and feet, and I have his head plugged into a NIC (Network Interface Card).
- For Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security, I used a Schedule Of Acceptable Fines paper, which I received along with my speeding ticket, a couple of months prior.
To my dismay, the project was eventually killed, but I leave with you today the remnant below:
… and just for kicks, here is the original photo of the collage.
