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Final Week, Birthday and Illustrations

In the final week of Semester 1 - KXT301 Software Engineering Project A has left me mentally and physically depleted. Working in diverse team environments with asynchronous life schedules is extremely taxing. Ultimately I’m just tired and have spent more energy on the workload than was originally intended.

Also, today is my birthday. Yep four score and four years old today. Which means in birthday time I’m about 26 with a lion’s heart and a buffed physique. Tomorrow I’m back to being the unsightly mess that I was at 43.

All I have left this week for uni is a practise session for our Release 1 presentation. Our Team Cardio website probably explains enough to get the gist of it all. Unfortunately due to a lack of supplied content the actual project - a website for our major hospital to educate and offer online dietetics assessment - is mostly full of plagiarised content. It’ll never go live and die on the intranet late this week after marking.

I wonder if the level of appreciation for the effort and quality of our project will even fully go noticed in a world where they define software as the real thing and web as an easy second cousin. We’ll never know. But the hospital has really missed a gem of ideas and some excellent templates and design.

One thing I really enjoyed in project was working on the illustrations. The apple logo was created in Corel Painter Essentials 3 and the illustrations in what we describe as an Adventure Pathway (really a comedic parody of Star Wars providing lifestyle advice along the way) were created in Illustrator as very quick solutions on the fly. I hope you enjoy these illustrations for their humour. Very simple but fun to do.

icons and illustrations used in the What’s Good to Eat Adventure Pathway for my uni project

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4 Responses to “Final Week, Birthday and Illustrations”

  1. Matt Robin

    May 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Hey, Happy Birthday mate, have a good one! :)

    Also, good luck with the Uni work and well done for doing stuff on the the Team Cardio site (funky images included!)

  2. Sue

    May 26th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!

  3. steven

    May 26th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Ahhh the joy of uni… one more unit to go and they have to give me a degree… at the end of the year :)

    birthday… ahhhh the cake was yummy. Thanks.

    BTW Matt, Sue is my big sister in Brisbane. She’s just happy cos for this next three months she’s only 2 years older. :)

    Thanks sis.

  4. steven

    May 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    And no illustration really took longer than a couple of quick minutes with a most basic tool. What’s the saying? All care and no responsibility?

    By this stage of the project we were aware it would not go live so less effort went into graphic design. Which was kind of fun…

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