It's hard to even fathom the amount of new portfolio pieces and published design work that has come out of just the past semester alone while in the advanced design capstone. Placing all of those pieces in addition to past work into my mini portfolio has been such a rewarding experience. This capstone is one unlike any other. Who else gets the opportunity to design for a city magazine, judge a design contest, conceptualize and design a magazine for a commission for a huge publishing corporation, learn to design for the iPad, learn to conceptualize and produce studio shoots, critique other students' work and receive feedback on a regular basis from 20 other expert designers all in one semester? Pretty great, huh? And that's not even half of it, I'm sure I've missed some things. I know for most of us the amount of designing and published work just seems like standard procedure at this point, but to outsiders, that amount of work and amount of professional experience done in just one course is quite impressive.
Danielle is absolutely right, separation anxiety is absolutely inevitable. Never again will we have the opportunity to work alongside each other in the design lab, critiquing and helping each other as we go, or be able to follow 18 other designers' and their work over the span of a semester.
To my fellow capstone designers, you all have done some pretty incredible things this semester – be proud of what you've done – I can't wait to sift through everyone's finished mini portfolios and websites next week and look back at a semester's worth of designing! Good luck to everyone in the upcoming months getting out there in the real world – and please keep blogging!
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