booklet

Charlotte van der Sommen

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Booklet DG000 Introducing Competency-Centered Learning


S109229

Industrial Design B1.1


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Table of content:

Blz. Competency areas

3 Introduction

4 Self Directed & Continuous learning

10 Ideas & Concepts

13 Integrating Technology

15 Business Process Design

18 User Focus & Perspective

21 Social Cultural Awareness

24 Form & Senses

26 Descriptive Mathematical Modeling

28 Design & Research Processes

30 Teamwork & Communication

32 Final reflection


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Introduction

Each Tuesday and Wednesday we had the DG000 assignment, and every week

we treat one or two new competency areas in this assignment. The days

started with a reading about the competency area we would treat that day.

Competency areas are the subjects we are going to improve at Industrial

Design. After the reading we started with doing a project that had to do

something with the competency area of that day. We did in teams. And at the

end of the day we had presentations of the things we made that day.

In this booklet I show and explain what we have done and make during all the

competency areas and what I’ve learned from it. And last but not least what

I’m going to improve for next time.


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Self-directed & continuous learning

Take responsibility for and give direction to your own personal development, based on a

continuous process of self-reflection and out of curiosity for future developments in

technology and society.

Learning styles

Leaning style of Kolb It is (theoretically) possible that a score which you both da ae_wo axis as the axis ab_c value scores 0. In this case, no red line is shown. You have no strong learning style.

Your learning style: Doer

The Kolb learning styles that distinguish its

quadrants in this learning circle. The circle is

both the different phases in a learning process,

as the different types a person can be.

1. The bezinner watching how others deal with a problem and thinks first before he does anything. He sees many solutions, because he has a problem from many different positions to view. Thus he takes decisions sometimes slow. 2. The thinker is good at logical thinking and reasoning. He attempts to discover general rules and prefer to learn from books. It is important that ideas make sense, and then they are practicable. 3. The decision maker plans and executes a task. He is not interested in theories. He is doing well in conventional intelligence tests. Will be more


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concerned with technical issues than with people. 4. The doer likes to experiment and solve problems by trying something out. It adapts well to new situations. Sometimes a doer pushy happened in his thirst for action

http://www.carrieretijger.nl/functioneren/ontwikkelen/leerstijlen

I was very surprised to see that I was a doer, in the test I have never chosen the answers that were saying: ‘I learn the best from doing thinks’; in my opinion I’m more a Bezinner. I’m not the kind of person that has to do things to learn, in that way I’m probably more a thinker because I think a lot about a problem and then I come to a solution. The reason I think I’m more a bezinner is that because I have the idea that when I’m working in a project, I exactly act like a bezinner. I’m more the one that looks from a little distance and watch the problem from many different positions and that show my ideas to others.

Leaning style of Felder

Results for:

ACT X REF

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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SEN X INT

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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VIS X VRB

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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SEQ X GLO

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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If your score on a scale is 1-3, you are fairly well balanced on the two dimensions of that scale.

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If your score on a scale is 5-7, you have a moderate preference for one dimension of the scale and will learn more easily in a teaching environment which favors that dimension.

If your score on a scale is 9-11, you have a very strong preference for one dimension of the scale. You may have real difficulty learning in an environment which does not support that preference.

Active and Reflective Learners

Active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active with it--discussing or applying it or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first.

Active learners tend to like group work more than reflective learners, who prefer working alone.

Sitting through lectures without getting to do anything physical but take notes is hard for both learning types, but

particularly hard for active learners.

I think this one is very right I have the working in a group thing but also the thinking for myself first. In my opinion the X is at exactly the right place because I think the Reflective site is a little bit more my style than the Active side.

Sensing and Intuitive learners

Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.

Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors are more likely than intuitors to resent being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class.

Sensors tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on (laboratory) work; intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations.

Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and to be more innovative than sensors.

Sensors don't like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world; intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.


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I think this X is also on the right place, it also could have been on the 5 next to the 7 it’s now but it is right that the X is more on the Intuitor side than on the Sensing side. For the most parts I am an intuitor, but for the fourth point I’m more a sensor one and I can also work very theoretical. So that makes that the X is not on the 11.

Visual and Verbal leaner’s

Visual learners remember best what they see--pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and demonstrations. Verbal learners get more out of words--written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.

In most college classes very little visual information is presented: students mainly listen to lectures and read material written on chalkboards and in textbooks and handouts. Unfortunately, most people are visual learners, which mean that most students do not get nearly as much as they would if more visual presentation were used in class. Good learners are capable of processing information presented either visually or verbally.

I think this X is again exactly at the right place. I’m not good at learning when I just hear thinks, most of the time I can’t concentrate enough to really learn something. The reason that The X is not at 11 is that when I’ve slept very well or when the subject interest me very much than I will learn from only verbal presentation.

Sequential and Global leaner’s

Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following logically from the previous one. Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."

Sequential learners tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions; global learners may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.

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I think this is a little bit a vague one, I think I’m a little bit of both. When the X could have been exactly in the middle it would stand there. Because for me my learning stile can be different for all kinds of subjects.

What I’ve done

That day we first got a presentation about

learning styles. We all had to make two learning

style testes, my results are seen above. Later we

needed to work together in a group and make

something or think of a solution for presentation

fear. We started making a word web with words

that come in our minds when we thought about

presentation fear. Then we thought about a

necklace that gives some sense that makes you calm. We searched for some senses and we

found: vanilla, lavender, finger, lemon, sandalwood and some others. We thought to let it

react on the heartbeat of the person that is wearing it, because when you nerve you

heartbeat is getting higher, than there will be a relaxing sense and your heartbeat is getting

lower.

What I’ve learned

We worked as a team together, we all didn’t know each other’s and were very different

types, but we worked together and in my opinion it worked very well, so I can say I learned


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by working with different kind of persons how to react to each other and how you can use

each other’s strong points to come to a great solution.

What am I going to change and improve?

We worked very long on the brainstorming part, I think it could have been shorter, so next

time I think it will be smart to make immediately one group leader so he or she can let the

brainstorm part going fluently so it won’t take so long.

Maybe we can improve the presentation the next time because we didn’t practice it and it

wasn’t that good, but that just that we need to chose someone who is going to talk, make a

PowerPoint presentation and maybe practice one time.


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Ideas and concepts

Develop visions, innovative ideas and concepts through creativity techniques,

experimentations and the translation of research.

What I’ve done

We had to work in the yellow space, so I went there and met my group. We got the

assignment to make a concept that can wake some kind of people. We got the sneaky

sleeper to focus on. We all brought some stuff with us to make our concept, so we firstly

looked at all the stuff we got. Than we started to make a word-spin about a sneaky sleeper,

with all ways to see a sneaky sleeper. Than we looked in magazines and took all kind of

pictures out the remind us of a sneaky sleeper, and we made a moodboard together.

Than we start to

think about some

ways to awake

someone, and with

all that information

we went to think

about concepts. Pictures made by: Dorothe Smit

We came to the conclusion that we were making something for someone that sneaky sleeps

at his desk at his office, and he is at bottom of the corporate ladder. So everyone is the

enemy.


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Eventually we came to the concept of a back pillow you can hang on your chair with at the

back little cameras that detect movement. When there’s movement detected the pillow

start to vibrate like a massage, so no one else will notice what happens. Than the boss

comes in and ask the employer something, but the employer doesn’t know what he asked

because he just woke up. He can press a button on under his chair so the phone will ring and

the last 10 seconds about what happened will be repeated through the telephone. So the

employer will excuse to his boss and take the phone, he hears what has said the last 10

seconds and he can answer his boss without being got for sneaky sleeping.

What I’ve learned

We made a word-spin and a moodboard. I’m not used to do that but it worked very well for

me, this way I was very creative in thinking about concepts. And because we made it with

the whole group everyone thought in the same direction so we came to the same kind of

concepts and that together worked very well.

By making a moodboard and a word-spin we used a lot of post-its it was really effective in

the process I see now that post-its are very handy to use in moodboards. We came to a lot

of concepts, and this way we could search as a group for the best concept. It worked very

well and I think we had a great concept eventually.

We brought all kinds of materials with us and we made little concepts we had in mind, so it

was clear for everyone what the idea was. It worked very well for imaging to the other

group members.


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I have noticed that making a moodboard and a word-spin worked

very well with developing a process or concept. In the future I’m

going to use more plastic ways to put down my ideas, so I and my

group members will understand everything much better, and it is

much easier to come on new ideas. I’m also going to use more post-

its because it worked very well in making the process. And it’s

handy to take a lot of materials with me to make little prototypes

for the understanding.

Pictures made by: Dorothe Smit


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Integrating Technology

Being competent in integrating technology means being able to explore, visualize, create

and demonstrate innovative concepts and experiences using technology, as well as

analyzing the technical and economic feasibility of complex designs in which technology is

integrated. Moreover, one needs to understand scientific writings and be able to

communicate with engineers and researchers of another discipline.

What I’ve done

We had to make a delay out of cardboard, elastics, rope and little stuff we took with us. I

worked together with Jim Steenbakkers, we went to Vertigo to start making our delay.

When we got the explanation I immediately got an idea to use gears, and I explained to Jim

what we could do with it, and how it works in making a delay. We start to sketch and figure

out in which proportions we needed to make out desirable delay. And when we finished the

sketching we started to make the delay itself. When we finished it we tested our delay en

we came to the conclusion that it worked.

Picture made by me

Picture made my: Jim Steenbakkers


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What I’ve learned

Over all I learned how to make a delay with gears, and also with elastic. Like how you can

manage the proportions the way you get the right delay. When we got our idea we just start

to make it, but we clashed into a few problems. At first the whole delay was not stable

enough, so we got some tips and we decided to cross rope at the sides of the product, and

we figured out that is worked very well in making the delay stable. Also the gears weren’t

going fluently so we saw that the cardboard and the wooden sticks gave to much resistance

together so we put plastic tape around the sticks and they went a lot more fluent. These are

the things that we have learned of making the delay. The working together went in my eyes

very well, I think I didn’t learn anything new from it.


Next time I think I’m going to sketch more and think more about what we need en how we

can make the delay, so I don’t stand for a lot of surprises when I make the concept. There

are always failing that you can only discover by making a prototype, but in my way of

addressing in the delay project I could have prevent a lot of problems.


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Business Process Design

Bringing new products to users in a global market of a dynamic international industrial

context requires knowledge of industrial business processes.

What I’ve done

We started with a presentation about the how the computer has been evaluate in the last

years, and about how you can design a computer for a certain target. Later we could choose

out of 3 assignments:

Add a sensor to the iPhone and define new applications including new

business/markets

Investigate US patent database

Marriage with another brand & define the “children”

We choose to do the third one, at first we came to the idea of integrating options in the

iPhone that would be nice in the nightlife. We had the idea to integrate a Polaroid camera in

an iPhone. But eventually we came to the conclusion to integrate the iPhone in a car, so let

BMW and Apple marry. Eventually you needed to do almost everything in the car with the

iPhone like starting the car, but also arranging the air-conditioning. Finally we made a label

and a PowerPoint presentation and we gave our presentation.


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Pictures out my dummy made by: me

What I’ve learned

The working in the group went very well. We did a lot in a very short time so the

cooperation was very well. Now I know how it can work good so I’m able to use it in my new

projects. I have searched for a lot of information about Polaroid so I know a lot more about

that kind of cameras. About the business part I’m afraid I learned not much already.


I wrote and draw every little part down, it was very handy in the brainstorming and also

when you have to look back, so I’m going write and especially draw everything down. I also

like to improve my business side, I haven’t leaned much about it in this competency area

but I really like to know a lot more about it.


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Logo made by me


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User Focus & perspective

Understand human characteristics, goals and needs, the context of use, and create empathy

with users throughout the design process. Design user-system interaction for user

experiences.

What I’ve done

We first had a presentation about designs and bad design.

After the presentation we went into the city to search for

bad designed thinks. For instance the stairs at Vertigo, the

steps are too long lot put one foot on it, but too short to

walk with two feet each step.

Then we walked further and came to the bicycle parking,

the roads are very long and there are no openings halfway

the road. So you have to go back to the opening of the

parking to go to another road and that can take a lot of

time. Later we went to the BCC, there we watched

washing machines. The problem with the first one is that

the water reservoir is at the bottom of the washing

machine, but mostly it is at the top so it’s very confusing.

The other one had the opening at the top, so you can’t

put a dryer on it, and when you put the washing machine

on the dryer it is too high to get your stuff out.

Than we saw a washing machine that had a plastic lock, it


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can break very fast if you pull too hard or when the plastic is

getting a little bit old. Another washing machine had a

rubber band at the opening so when you get your stuff out

it will get stuck behind the rubber and eventually the rubber

will break.

The last washing machine had bottoms with signs that are

totally not logic. What means 1400/600 Ram? So bad design

Pictures made by: David Verweij

What I’ve learned

We went to the city to watch all kinds of designs and the usable part of it. Normally when I

go to the city I do watch to the way thinks looks, but to look at the functionality of objects I

never did. I learned to watch more to the functional en logical site of objects. Now I know

for myself as a designer what I must and must not do, in my designs.


I plan to make a nice PowerPoint presentation next time because that can really be

improved. Also do I plan to make a lot more pictures and notes about our thinking process

and our final outcome.


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My goal is to develop my vision about designed products and the functionality and quality of

it a bit more than I already have learned. Because in the future I really like to become a

designer that makes high quality products.


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Social Cultural Awareness

The focus of our education at ID is on designing intelligent systems, products and related

services for social and societal transformation. Therefore, you need to learn to drive the

design process from an awareness and understanding of developments in society, envision

your designs in society, place the development of systems in a broader perspective, and

take position in and evaluate the impact and mediating role of a system, product of service

on society.

What I’ve done

We first had a presentation about designing with the consciousness of the society, system

service by taking in account, sustainability, and the environment. Than the presentation was

going about the world expo. After the presentation we had to think about organizing the

world expo ourselves in an African country.

We came to the conclusion that we would organize our world expo in Gaborone the main

city of Botswana. The reasons we had to do it in Botswana where:

It is the second fastest growing economy in the world

Gaborone is close to three other big cities’s so when there are for instance more employees necessary

the can easily can get from the other cities.

Gaborone has an easily accessible international airport.

Pictures of the Dummy of: Bram Smis


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Gaborone is the capital city so they

want to show off.

Botswana has a stable economic

growth for several decades.

Near Gaborone are many natural

resources.

Than we thought about a theme for

the world expo, we came to the

theme: Cultural Merging and

Equality, we wanted to show the

Equality by the stairs of Escher and

make this in our pavilion.

Finally we have made a concept for

the Dutch exhibit. We made a house

that looks very Dutch from the

outside, and at the inside you have

the stairs from Escher, to symbolize the equality. Then in the middle of the house there’s an

empty space with all kinds of screens with all kind of information you like to show.

What I’ve learned

The presentation was very instructive. I learned a lot about the world expo, and I thought it

was very interesting to listen to. The presentation was also about the part that you take in


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account the people you design for and all the other parts you need to take in account wile

you design a product ore concept. It was very instructive for me because I normally don’t

think about that part while I’m designing.


I plan to in the future focus more on the cultural part of the thing I’m designing and of the

people I’m designing for. I’m convinced that to do this I will become a much better and

convincing designer.

Moodboard

about the

Dutch made

by me


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Form and Senses

Experience and develop through doing and abstraction, aesthetical (physical) languages that

connect thought and interactive form, in order to communicate specific properties of the

design concept.

What I’ve done

That day we had to make a lamp that

was inspired by an artificial movement.

The artificial movement we got to

design a lamp in was Art Deco. We

started to search for the features of

that movement, and we found: elegant,

glamorous, functional, modern, used in

daily life products dynamics, and there

were used mathematical geometrical

shapes. Than we decided to use only a

few features that addressed to us and

they were mathematical and

geometrical shapes, functional, Picture made by: me

modern and used in daily life. We made a lot of sketches, they were also all very different,

but at the end we took the parts we liked of every concept we already had and put it

together to one. That was our lamp you can see on the next page.


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What I’ve learned

I made the shape on the top of the lamp, that was not easy and I really learned to make it. I

also learned to account with an already excising art style while I’m designing. I also learned

that you can’t just put all kind of shapes together, so you really need to look every time that

it is still nice and the way you want it.


We made all kind of sketches and at the end we put them together, but it doesn’t look that

good all together so next time we need to watch out that the shapes are still very nice

together. So I can be proud on your design.


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Descriptive Mathematical Modeling

Being able to create and apply descriptive and mathematical models by using formal and

mathematical tools, in order to justify design decisions and support the design of complex,

highly dynamic and intelligent systems.

Pictures made by me

What I’ve done

We started the day with a presentation and at the end we needed to do two projects. With

my first project we made a system for the taxis at the Design week. We make the a list with

instructions for the taxi drivers so they would help as much people as possible and also not


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driving too much so they wouldn’t spill any fuel. In the next project we had to discuss with

our group and such out the different between mathematical and practical calculating.

What I’ve learned

For the first project I learned how to establish rules for for instance a taxi driver so he can

funiculate the best, it wasn’t easy and it wasn’t good in the first time so we wrote it a few

times down, but eventually is really worked.

About the second project I learned what the difference is between practical and

mathematical calculating.


I plan to practice the decentralized systems more in the future, because it stays a difficult

subject. I also like to keep practice the mathematical way to see thinks and think out

systems.


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Design & Research Processes

Master the design process and the research process, and adjust these processes to the

demands of the task at hand.

What I’ve done

To be honest we haven’t done that much that day, the assignment wasn’t that clear to us.

We thought we had to find thinks in the daily life that were designed in a way, and we had

to find a different way to see it en use it. So eventually we thought about all kind of daily life

object with wish we could kill someone and we came to these results.

Pictures

made by:

Gabi Ras


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So that was: hanging by scarf, stabbed by pen, strangled by duct tape, slapped by chair,

electrocuted by outlet, drowned by toilet, slapped by battery and drowned by sink.

What I’ve learned

I’m afraid I haven’t really learned something that day. But I used this competency area also

in other days, I think I can even say almost every day, for instance when we did the Social

Cultural Awareness competency area. Than we did a lot of research before we decided we

would like to have our world expo in Botswana, and I learned to search that and especially


In the future I like to learn a little more about this competency area, because in my opinion I

don’t know already enough about this competency area.


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Teamwork & communication

Work together towards a common goal using all strengths within a team and communicate

opinions, ideas, information and results clearly and convincingly.

What I’ve done

The day we had this competency area, we as a team evaluate how it was going until now

and what everyone’s place was in the group, but that wasn’t new for us because we already

do that a lot while we are working on our project. Actually we are doing this competency

area all the time at Industrial Design, even when you’re just working at your booklet you can

ask someone for help and like this everyone helps each other en work as a team.

What I’ve learned

Every day we work as a team I learn from it. It is very hard to tell what I exactly learned but

in big lines, I’m am more communicating about every little work I do for our project so we

know from each other what we are doing. I’m also a lot better in minute what we have

discussed in our meetings.


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I’m still learning about working in a team every minute I’m doing it, and I will always in the

future. But the things I really like to improve in het future are to divide the jobs well and still

how to minute the thinks well.

Pictures made by: David Verweij Pictures made by me about my team


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Final reflection

In the whole DG000 assignment we have done each day a competency area, so you would

think that we did all competency area separately, but that’s not the truth. Actually we did al

lot more competency area’s each day, for instance Teamwork & Communication, we had to

do every project in a team so we did al lot of teamwork & communication every day. Also

Form & Senses we wanted to let every project look very good so you we are also using Form

& Senses every day. And that is the same for almost all the others. Only Integrating

Technology, Designing Business Processes and Descriptive Mathematical Modeling these are

more competency areas you use when you focus on it.

I’m convinced that I’ve learned a lot during the DG000 assignment. The most important

thing I learned is that I am conscious doing thinks by constantly reflecting everything I’ve

done, so I really know what I’m doing and learning and not just being somewhere to just

doing something.

This shows how I think I

developed in the

competency areas. The

dark blue stands for what

al already new and could

about that competency.

The light blue is what I

learned during the DG000

assignment.


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The reason that I made the background of my booklet like this is that, is like the color light

sunny yellow, it is exactly the color of my room and it gives me a very free and relaxing

feeling so I thought this is exactly the color I have to use for my background. Then I really

liked to make some sign, and at the first grade of high school I made a sign for myself that I

really like and al already use it in everything I make, so I decided to integrate it in my

booklet. I decided to make the sign red because I really like that color, and together with the

yellow it provides a very nice atmosphere.

The booklet is in the shape of a square, I wanted to do it like this because I think it’s boring

to do it just in the shape of a book. I’m someone that likes to not being or doing to difficult,

just keep it simple. So I thought I just make the height and the breadth the same length.

Because I liked to keep it simple I decided to now doing to difficult with all kinds of text

blocks, and just type it the normal simple way.

I tried to put the pictures al that way that it wouldn’t look like a chaos. So I put them all or

on the left side ore in a horizontal line over the page. And I also tried to make them a little

yellow so they would fit better in the whole picture, I hope that I succeeded.

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