It’s no shocking or new commitment but as the start of a new term and new year begins, I find I am tapping into good habits to organize myself, schoolwork and daily routine. I hadn’t really made any resolutions dealing with organization but our Personal Development Plan and Project Log is influencing my academic lifestyle. […]
Then and Now
The first term of my postgraduate degree in London has concluded. While I’m embracing the slow days of the holiday break, social media reminds me of posts from a cruise vacation I took to Mexico “on this day last year.” It was then that I had told my friend of my unconditional offer to Kingston […]
Brand You
We’ve just about wrapped up the module (with lectures at least) on the topic of Branding. These last few weeks including marketing and advertising have always been areas of the creative sectors that I found the most intriguing. It reminds me of why I selected this course because I knew I would get to experience […]
Ad Appeal
On our learning path this week we got to dive into the world of Advertising. We started the class off by viewing “Ads that Changed the World“. The video includes commentators in the advertising industry describing various adverts. It analyzes how advertising influences the psyche of consumers and influences the market globally. Most of the […]
Team Revisions
Last week was quite the wake up call for us in the Design Thinking module, but we definitely kicked things into gear a little over a week out for the Dragons Den. Just this past week, our idea completely evolved from scratch and we mapped out an entirely brand new product idea within the last […]
Marketing: An Introduction
In my previous work experience I had the job title of “Marketing Coordinator” and through that I was able to market and promote our office and educate students about our services through ads, events and presentations. During our session on marketing in Managing a Creative Business, our guest lecturer mentioned how marketing often gets lumped […]
Hopeful Progress and Starting Lean
Our startup team has some serious work to do and the pressure to deliver is on. I think our session in Design Thinking yesterday got to everyones core. As each team took turns discussing with the class where they all were with their start ups, I found some consistencies among one another. Most teams had […]
