Who knew that today's date would trigger a big discussion on binaries? What is a binary, anyway? According to wikipedia, "Binary means composed of two parts or two pieces." In mathematics, a "binary numeral system refers to a representation for numbers using only two digits (usually, 0 and 1)." I didn't know too much about binaries before this discussion. I knew it is applied to computers and involved '0' and '1'. Jimmy put the first 7 binaries and asked the class as a group to figure out the next 3 sequences. It was definitely challenging since most of us have never heard or dealt with binaries, but we managed to come up with a few solutions. We couldn't come to an agreement, which led Jimmy to talk about the importance of methodology.
We talked for a while about methodology and clients in the real world. Jimmy mentioned how we can improve on communication with our clients. If we can't explain our methodology, then who can? We briefly went over the remaining one word, ten images assignment. Class ended a half hour early. Jimmy didn't assign 'HW' over the weekend. Well, we still have to read and work on our apple sketches. This weekend is going to be not so homework-free.
Man that Binary number problem was so hard. But at least we learn how important methodology is and how important it is to have that as a graphic designer.
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