Alex's Wonders

The Start The origin of my story lies with my birthplace, on the eastern part of Puerto Rico, Juncos. For me, my culture is a valuable asset to my life, and how I live, and is why my life has grown to be quite monumental. From growing up in what we like to call Barrios all I was taught is that what keeps you alive is all you need.    Rough mornings, rough nights, I've always found a way to keep myself happy and active and especially at a very young age. Which makes a lot of connections to how I act today, and how I like to conduct my life. From being a little kid growing up, you don't tend to notice a lot, except for the cartoons you get to watch, from warm mornings you get woken up to, and to the cold nights you get tucked into bed. But for me, I've always seemed to recall tons of memories from my childhood, and how amazing and joyful my days were. From the family constantly visiting, to the crazy parties for my birthday, and all the cool stuff that I wanted to be as a kid...

  Hey y’all! Welcome back to another weekly blog. This week I wanted to shit some to things around so I decided to do some digging. I found some creativity exercise from "Caffeine for the creative mind" and I took a creativity exercise from it and wanted to share it with you guys. What better way to introduce a crazy exercise that’s all about taking what we think we know and flipping it upside down. The prompt goes like this: pick a topic, list three assumptions about it, reverse those assumptions, and then figure out how you’d actually make those reversals happen. It’s a way of shaking the dust off your usual thinking and seeing what new ideas fall out. For this one, I picked “coffee shops.” Here’s where I landed: Assumption 1: Coffee shops are places you go to wake up and get caffeine. Reversal: A coffee shop that puts you to sleep instead . Idea: A “wind-down café” that serves warm herbal blends, has dim lighting, hammocks, and calming music for nap sessions. Yo...

 Instructions Design Your Own Story Arc:  Choose a medium (e.g. a short comic strip or a 1-minute animation) and sketch out a complete story arc. Begin by defining the exposition (who, where), then identify a conflict or inciting incident that kicks off the rising action. Plan a clear climax – the high point of tension or emotion – and a resolution that gives closure. Pay attention to your  emotional arc : under each segment of your outline, note how you want the audience to feel (curious, excited, anxious, relieved, etc.).  Create a simple storyboard or outline illustrating each phase of the arc.  Afterward, review it to see if the character undergoes any change (a mini character arc) and if a theme is suggested by the end. This exercise will help you practice constructing a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end that work together to impact the audience.  Content  In this Exercise I create short comic strips of my stick man characters. ...

 Instructions Do and Discuss one of the following: Design a Brand Identity Storytelling Kit:  Select a local business or create a fictional brand with a strong mission (for example, an eco-friendly café or a neighborhood bookstore). Develop a mini visual identity and storytelling plan for this brand. Start by defining the brand’s core values and story in a few sentences. Then, design (sketch or describe) the key visual elements: the logo, a color scheme, and one example of imagery that fits the story (like a mock advertisement or social media post). Ensure each element reflects the narrative – e.g. if the story is “bringing the community together,” perhaps the logo incorporates a circle of people or a homey symbol, and the photos feature real community gatherings. Write a short rationale (200 words) explaining how your design choices (logo icon, colors, style) convey the brand’s story and emotional tone. This exercise will help you practice uniting visuals with narrative meani...

Welcome back yall! To another weekly creativity exercise blog! this week is going to be a ripper of a week so I cannot wait to show you all what I will create, but without any more distractions. This week’s design stretch is simple: take the blandest item in the room and turn it into something weirdly cool, oddly charming, or straight-up ridiculous whatever feels right. The goal? Give personality to the products that usually don’t get one. Here’s a few goofy makeovers to spark the vibe: Paper Clips → “Clippy Dips” Bright neon clips shaped like funky squiggles, spirals, and little hands doing finger guns. Comes in a matchbox-style case labeled. Tissues → “Sniff Snax” Packaged like snack bags. Each “flavor” has different scents (lavender, eucalyptus, pizza??).  Canned Beans → “Beanie Babyz” Retro ‘90s vibes with holographic labels and collectible mascots for each bean type (Chickpea Chad, Pinto Paula).  Rubber Bands → “Stretchy Bois” Comes in a paint bucket wit...

 Instructions 1 - Either A - Create a poster for an event, cause, or product that shows your understanding and application of Color, Structure, Typography, and Metaphor. Or B - Recreate a poster or Design that you have previously done, showing your understanding and application of Color, Structure, Typography, and Metaphor. 2- Create a detailed blog post that describes your visual choices and how you applied what you learned in Chapters 5-8 to make this poster tell a story. Content Reflection For this Project I wanted to kind of stray away a little bit from what I created last week, and go for a bit of a fun and playful work based around a product. So for this mock ad, I wanted to play with the idea of perspective not just in the product, but in how the image makes you feel at first glance. I placed a simple pair of glasses against a rocky shoreline with the ocean blurred in the background. There’s a calmness to it, but also something reflective, like a pause in motion. The phra...