100 chances to challenge herself: Cynthia Tran Vo's “mildly traumatizing” 100 Project

Bachelor of Design
Written By James Neufeld

by Cynthia Tran Vo (IDEA19)

This project dates back to my first year in the program and it still keeps its place as one of the most memorable yet mildly traumatizing projects.

It was definitely a test of time management and perseverance. Going into this, I knew very well that this was basically 100 chances to challenge myself. So with that in mind, I decided to focus on challenging my technical/illustration style.

At this point of time, I didn’t have a particular illustration style, but I knew that I leaned towards a flat geometric illustration style.

With the style that I envisioned myself pursuing, I knew that I would have to be more familiar with Adobe Illustrator, so I took this project as an opportunity to get used to the program. I kept with a simple theme of animals, but limited myself to basic shapes and the pathfinder tool, forcing myself to see what I could do with a limited palette.

James Neufeld

James has over 20 years of experience in the web/interactive design and development, Internet marketing and social media industries, working primarily as a freelancer, consultant and instructor, but also as a subcontractor to small agencies. He has experience with a variety of clients in small business, government, institutional and not-for-profit sectors. James is an instructor, lab supervisor and blog/social media coordinator at Capilano University's IDEA School of Design and also teaches a CodeCore College. His specialty is HTML & CSS for designers.

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