Logo Design Project

After interviewing members of the Millennium High School Girls' Basketball Team, the Lady Phoenix, I designed a logo that would capture the essence of the team.

The most successful part of this design, in my opinion, are the wings with the orange-red gradient. While this took multiple attempts to do, I am happy with the results.

The hardest part of this project for me was finding a way to incorporate different components to the design without making the logo too complex or complicated. For example, I wanted to include the teams' mascot, the phoenix, but including a basketball was a given. In order to overcome this challenge, I did research and found different perspectives of a basketball that allows me to incorporate a bird with the design.

Mid Winter Recess

Mid-Winter Recess 2015

February 16th - February 20th: An entire week of no school, no homework, no worries

This past week, Mid-Winter Recess week, was my week to do nothing. The first day, Monday, I revisited the recreation center across the street from my apartment with my friend Roberto to play basketball. Unsurprisingly, I was the only person with two X chromosomes at the gym playing basketball. Tuesday passed as an uneventful binge-watching-TV type of day. Wednesday came around and Roberto and I went to the recreation center again, this time to participate in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament. During warm-ups I managed to jam the remaining fingers of my right hand that hadn't been jammed previously. Our third player, Tyrell, tried to dunk on me...multiple times during the games. Thursday was Chinese/Lunar New Year. I went to eat brunch with my mom and her friends in Chinatown. Afterwards, I met Roberto at the recreation center for the championship games of the 3-on-3 tournament. When I arrived at the gym, he told me that we had won by default because the other teams had been disqualified for not being at the gym on time. On Friday we went back to the recreation center to discuss the first place plaques. Saturday I had a scrimmage with the Millennium Basketball Team against Stuyvesant in the morning. Sunday I visited my uncle and his family for Chinese New Year and stayed home reading for the remainder of the day.

Field Trip to the MoMA

Regents Week in New York is a week for high school students to take a break from stressing over school work to stressing over standardized tests. Thank goodness for New York City's many museums, most of which offer free admission to students. The museum is the perfect place to unwind from the stress of subjective testing and allows for the objective, creative sides of students to show.

Top to Bottom Left to Right: Jeff, Sofia, Derek,
Gabby, Arianna, Michael, ME, Raku

I met up with fellow students, designers, bloggers Jeff Huang and Michael Huff to go to the Museum of Modern Art, also known as the MoMA. At the MoMA we found our friends Raku Shigematsu and Sofia Martinez with Derek, Arianna, and Gabby. (It was almost a 9C reunion, with the exception of Michael and Gabby.) And Jodi Quan met up with us at the museum later that day.

Some pieces were breathtaking.

Others had a less than lucid meanings.

My favorite piece is Pablo Picasso's The Three Musicians. I studied this piece extensively in the sixth grade. This oil painting on canvas hung on a wall in the center of the floor acting as divider to the other pieces of art. Because of its extensive size, this painting occupied the entire wall. Pablo Picasso completed this along with another painting with the same title (see below) in 1921. The three figures in this image are, from left to right, Pierrot, a character from French plays, a harlequin, similar to a jester, and a monk.

This is the second The Three Musicians by Picasso.

Left to Right: Harlequin, Pierrot