What is Elevate?
Elevate consists of a presentation competition advocating for social change. hundreds come together to find solutions to common questions plaguing our day to day lives. To organize and put on this contest, leaders are chosen to make it all happen, and that is where I come in.
As a member of the team of directors, I am part of the Visual Team making anything and everything visually related, and I have made a lot of progress. Overall I have put in roughly 15 hours into this project, and expect many more hours will be coming my way. Nevertheless, let me give you a quick rundown of what we have accomplished.
We started out as a team without a topic or really any idea what we were doing. After meeting to introduce everyone and present the idea for what this competition is all about, Teams were made and we left with the task of brainstorming ideas for our topic. After stewing and thinking for about a week, the ideas were presented at our next meeting and the topic was chosen! We chose to find balance, and from there were assigned teams, one for the writing aspect and one for the visuals. And that’s where I come into play. At first, the only real thing I could do is to do photo research on the topic in hopes that somewhere the inspiration for our logo and brand could be found. I spent hours combing through royalty-free images, but nothing was really sticking. It wasn’t until we found the idea of a photo of Balanced rocks as our logo that was really able to narrow down our search.
Throughout this entire process, I was wondering what more could I do? My fellow teammates had each taken an aspect of the visuals and were rolling with it, but I felt out of place. Now after putting my effort forth, I have taken charge of the designing and executing of the fliers and posters we will be using throughout the next two semesters in both the preparation and advertising of the event. It is giving me soo much more fulfillment knowing that I get to make something great, but unfortunately, I do not have the logo yet and can not at this time give an update on how that is going.
Overall I love being apart of this team and am excited to see how I progress not only as a designer but as a person. Finding balance is so important, and I am looking forward to adding more updates in the future on Elevate!
