Response to RFP Project

    Last week, my response to RFP project was due in my Professional Practices in Design class. This was a very large project that including a title cover, resume, 3-4 portfolio pages, a design brief, timesheet, invoice, and 8 pages worth of our design contract. This whole package must be designed in our personal professional design identity branding, I referred to this in a blog post from a few weeks ago. 

    When the project was first introduced I was under the impression that we only needed to design a design brief. So instead of having 2 weeks to prepare this 17 paged package, I found out 3 days before it was due. Which is 100% my fault for not understanding in the beginning but after I organized everything I needed to design I got to work. Having my personal identity branding already established made this project go much faster than if I also had to determine the design elements as well. 

    The response to RFP packet is directed to our overall semester-long project with our client, Melissa Eddings-Mancuso. Melissa is the director of the School of Visual and Performing Arts and she is requested a newsletter about this school that is solely student driven. Meaning the graphic design students are designing the templet of the newsletter, the creative writing students are writing the content and the photography/videography students are providing the pictures/visuals. The key objective of the project is to engage the targeted audience (alumni, donors and expecting students, as well as the student body) with the School of Visual and Performing Arts and how the departments (art and design, theatre, music, etc.) within the school interact with one another. 

    I am very exciting to start designing the layout of the spreads for this project. Working for the C&M department at ONU gives me an advantage of having easy access to the schools branding for this newsletter. In this blog post, I attached my design brief, newly updated resume, invoice and the first page to the start of the design contract.