The History of Beer

It is insane that a week has gone by already since my last post!
I have been so incredibly busy (with a new job: scoree!!) that the time has just flown by!
I did manage to make time for EMERGE though as I helped Sam work on an infographic for a story based on the history of beer. Here is what I came up with:

This will act as part of the timeline feature of the story providing a relevant series of dates pertaining to the article! I was able to use parts of the article that were provided, including the text, as well as a previous graphic that Sam had made for another section of the article to create a similar colour scheme and a similar technique.

Since last week, our team has really focused on getting organized and figuring out who will be doing what graphics. A lot of the group members feel as if we are lacking delegation and they feel that the work has been distributed unfairly. Personally, I feel like there are some graphics that everyone wants to do, and others that no one seems to volunteer for so I usually try to focus on the ones no one seems to want. There are tons of graphics that need to be done and lots of work to go around so we are working on resolving this issue. We have decided to split the graphics up evenly so that we arent stepping on each others toes and so that some of the people who haven't spoken up will still have the chance to design. For me this means that I likely won't be making graphics this coming week so that other people can take on a job. That is of course, unless people still aren't volunteering for specific ones. I guess we shall see by  next week!

I will say one thing though: Throughout my time in University I can say that I have been a part of some useful classes, and some pretty meaningless  ones as well. As I am starting this "real life" job I can guarantee that this class is one of the most important classes that I have taken and will ever take. It is teaching me time management, design, marketing, best practises, etc. and I have already used a lot of the skills learned in this class in my new job. I feel like this class actually helps the students teach each other skills and tools that have been picked up along the way. I know that in my group it has definitely been a collaboration of ideas.

Until next time...