Making A Difference

As economic downturn has affected the community of Tiffin the students of Columbian High School would like to help local businesses and organizations boost their business by offering free advertisement design. The students enrolled in commercial art, digital photography, and video technology courses would like to give their talents and creativity in designing products that companies would find useful. These products could be but are not limited to designing or redesigning business cards, poster, flyers, video commercials or montages, photographs, etc. The hope for this project is connecting adults with students. It would be a great way to help the students build confidence and people skills in helping them in their future career choices. Making a difference is what I believe the students of Columbian High School can do for the community of Tiffin.

The students will split into small groups. Each group will be asked to develop their own company name and logo to present to clients. They then will have the freedom to research and choose a local business that they felt would benefit from their advertising service. They then followed basic design processes by researching, creating thumbnail sketches, rough sketches, and final comprehensives or comps that are presented to the client.

A main goal for this project was connecting adults with students. It was a great way to help the students build confidence and people skills in helping them in their future career choices; as the students were asked to make personal contact, set up and perform interviews, and present a project proposal to each client.

The final link to this project will be exposing the students to visiting real local advertisement agencies. This behind the scenes opportunity gave the students a chance to reflect and compare on their own experiences in what it takes to operate a business.

My hopes is to also showcase students design to public at local gallery spaces such as public library and or TIffin City Art guild.

Through out this experience the students of Tiffin Columbian High School have gained so much personal growth, but in an overall picture the students can
“making a difference” for the community of Tiffin.