Jake Yenney
DTech Dynasty 2
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Blog Post #1 This week I worked on the financials spreadsheet, I caught up on all the invoices and sales estimates that had not been entered into our master financials spreadsheet. We got all of the requisition forms in order, and remade the templates for the invoices and sales estimates. I also realized that the master spreadsheet was broken, and doing calculations wrong. I fixed it and added some new information to be displayed. I had some difficulty as I did not have much experience with doing spreadsheet calculations, but I got some help from Josiah Jorden and learned how to do it.
Blog Post #2 This week Eugene and I began to work on the house joust for the Cross Country teams Disneyland trip poster. We had some cool ideas for it, most of which center around image tracing an outline of the coaches. This week we also finished up gluing the soldier project, "Best Picture Award's". Me and Eugene also printed out posters for the soldier project, which went pretty well. I hadn't worked with the actual printer itself before, like loading paper and adjusting the settings, so doing this helped me to more fully learn how to use the canon printer, which will come in handy with the Disneyland house joust.
Blog Post #3 This week Eugene and I continued to work on the Disneyland House Joust, on Monday we cropped out the coaches on the ride and brought them into illustrator and played around with different image trace settings to find what we thought looked best. On Tuesday we started designing the actual poster, adding the text and date, finishing up the design elements. At the beginning of class time on Thursday we printed the actual poster and delivered it to Mr. Li. I think our poster was pretty well-made and liked the design we came up with, however most other groups did something similar so it did not stand out that much.
We used actual scosche packaging for inspiration
Blog Post #4 With the house joust over, we started looking into finding some new jobs. We also started researching packaging creation for the Scosche house joust, and messed around with creating designs for the house joust on illustrator, however given that we do not yet know what the product is that we will be designing for we were more just learning how to create a foldable box shape on illustrator. We were thinking about using magnets and folding cardboard in order to create tabs, and plastic to create a window to the product however we are not sure how this would be done beyond just gluing the plastic on from the inside.
Blog Post #5 This week I started looking for new jobs as most of my in class time has been spent working on the house jousts, so I'm a bit behind on projects. I spoke with my uncle who makes custom guitars for his company, KnE Guitars. At first, we were planning on making T-shirts for him, but he has other plans for that, so we are now discussing other merchandising we can help with. This week Eugene and I also made some kind of goofy designs on Inkscape to practice heat pressing a thin vinyl design onto shirts to see how thin text and other designs might work.
Blog Post #6 This week I continued working on getting new jobs. I spoke with KnE Guitars again and discussed possibly printing their logo onto guitar picks that they could give out with their sales as a form of merchandising but as of now we are still working on how to do this printing. We tried laser engraving the logo directly onto the picks but the outcome was not visible no matter the settings we tried. We are thinking about make a stencil and painting the logo onto the picks. This week we also heat pressed the shirt we designed last week and found some interest in people wanting to buy a shirt with the design.
Blog Post #7 We started this week working on a design for Chromebook stickers. I have some more experience than some of the other team members on illustrator, so I was jumping between helping Eugene work on the Chromebook sticker design, helping Gavin work on the design he was making, and Roy with his work. While I was helping them I was texting my mom about a new potential job for her bible study group. They were thinking about buying some lanyards, so I gave her a quote and got information about what they might want on the lanyards, however I'm a little worried that school might get cancelled because of the coronavirus scare, and we won't be able to finish this or any of the other jobs we've been looking into, and won't be able to deliver the shirts me and Eugene got orders for last week.
(Sept - 12) - This week I've spent most of my time in DTech working on our teams website. I'm self coding it using the bootstrap api. I've worked on web development in the past, but mostly for personal projects in which usability was not my main priority, thus I've been having a lot of trouble with relative display (making it look good on mobile and different sized monitors). At the moment I'm just looking to get a sort of template worked out as we don't have any products or services to be advertising at the moment. This week we also took temporary photos for use on our lanyards and website. In the future we plan to print team shirts, and take professional looking photos using those shirts.
(Sept - 19) - This week as a team we looked into laser engraving our logo for our house's plaque, as well as worked on designing our teams lanyard. On Tuesday I took a couple safety tests, after which I helped Cole and Josiah use Inkscape to create a stroke around our houses logo for use in laser cutting. While we worked on the laser cutter, Gavin and Eugene worked on the designing the lanyards. On Thursday, once they had finished creating a template design for the lanyards, I took it into photoshop to add our photos. We created a qr code online which links to our teams website, which we placed on the back of the lanyards. Finally, I created a file containing all the individual lanyards side by side for printing, which we would do next week.
(Sept - 26) - This week we continued our work from last week on the lanyards, printing them out on Tuesday. No one in our group had much previous experience with the printer so we asked Andrew from Atto for help. We first printed on cheap paper, which resulted in a complete failure. Our design was completely off scale and much bigger than intended. Andrew helped me to figure out the issue, and we did another test print, and finally the real print. The final product works as designed, except that the QR code we printed on it is both a little too small to reasonably scan, and, on top of that, it is no longer working in the first place. However, this isn't the most major setback as we plan to redo the lanyards with new photos once we print out Sail T-shirts, and at we can fix these issues at that time.
(Oct - 3) - This week our team learned how to heat transfer vinyl onto a shirt. We printed our logo onto a blank white T-Shirt, and while the transfer was successful, we made a pretty major oversight, forgetting to mirror our logo design and thus resulting in our logo being backwards on the shirt. Josiah sent the shirt through the wash to see if it would come out and it did not.
(Oct - 10) This week Josiah and I met with Bradley, the leader of the political science club at VC to discuss the lanyards he was ordering from Sail. We showed him a sample print, and got the sales order acknowledgment form signed. Our house also finished cutting out the first part of our house plaque on clear green acrylic. The next day, we went on to prepare the lanyards for printing next week. I took the template Josiah had created and created the personalized lanyards including each members name and position from a list that Bradley had given us. I then formatted them into a Photoshop document properly sized for printing.
(Oct - 17) This week I printed the lanyards for the political science club order that Josiah had designed. When setting up lanyards on photoshop I made the mistake of arranging them in a way that would fully fill the sheet we were printing on leaving no margin, which would be problematic as it led to the bottom row of lanyards getting slightly cut off. This wasn't a huge ordeal though, as we only had to reprint the back side of around 4 lanyards. I was sick for the second half of this week so that was all I did this week.
(Oct - 24) After printing the lanyards last week, we made plans to deliver them this week. I filled out the an invoice and met with Bradley at VC just before his Political Science Club's meeting, however he informed me that he had made a mistake on the information that we needed to put on the invoice. VC requested that the invoice be made with the instructors name on it instead of Bradley's and be submitted electronically, thus we set up to meet again next week with an updated invoice as well as sent a copy to him in an email. This experience has showed that in the future we should finalize things like an invoice over email like we had been before delivering it in person.
(Nov 7) The lanyard project is officially paid for and delivered, feels good to finally have a sale completed. We spent the rest of this week working on our second project which was the Schmitt Stickers. We quickly ran into an issue with weaving due to the font we chose. The letters were a challenge to cut quickly and consistently, which has so far made the process begin to take substantially longer which is something we will have to account for in the future. We also played around with heat pressing vinyl for shirt designs, which was something I had not learned how to do until now.
(Nov 14) This week we finished up the Schmitt stickers and are ready for delivery. After that, our house began to work on learning how to screen print. Our initial prints were uneven and quickly cracked upon pulling on the material, but with some help from Atto we got a hold of the process, finding that 3 passes and 15 seconds drying worked well for our design. We plan to screen print house shirts, and in the future hope to secure a screen printing job, once we are sure that we are comfortable with the skill enough to deliver quality work.
(Nov 21) This week we continued to practice with screen printing, however we did not realize our goal of screen printing house shirts as we are yet to master the skill, and instead opted to use a vinyl heat pressed design. The shirts did turn out very good however, and in the near future we plan to retake house photos and individual portraits for more professionalism on our website and media presence. At the end of the week we began to brainstorm about potential jobs and our plan for the soldier project awards.
(Nov 26) Today we finished applying the Schmitt stickers to the chrome books which was a lot more of a struggle than we had anticipated. The stickers would not easily peel from the transfer paper. We hypothesize that this is either because we left them on the transfer paper for too long or because they couldn't stick to the surface of the chrome book. Finally we finished the labor portion and are now ready to deliver the project. After we finished, I helped Gavin learn illustrator and worked on the design for the soldier project awards.
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