This past Saturday, I was given the opportunity to watch the DESMA final presentations. And I must admit, everyone of the students there did an incredible job, especially in expressing their creative and artistic abilities.
The first part of the presentation was on graphic design. 
There was a total of twenty-four students in graphic design but only eight of the students were chosen to represent their project. The project was for each student to select their favorite book and create a four-paged brochure (including the back and cover) expressing the ideals of the book through graphic design. All eight of the students were incredibly creative and each one of them produced fantastic designs.
Next was game design. I’m usually not a person who finds much interests in computer games, but after the presentation, I couldn’t help but want to learn more about them. Each student for their project had to create a 
computer game, and fortunately, this time all the students were able to present their project. It was thoroughly amusing to listen to the students explain the plot of the game and go into depth about the hero/main character.
Finally, the last group of DESMA was media design. The main objective for the students in this project was to create a music video to one of their 
favorite songs. All of the videos were extremely entertaining and some even hilarious, especially one video in which a student had to play both the girl and the boy in his video.
All in all, I truly enjoyed the presentation, and it left me with an enthusiasm of wanting to learn more about design- something I definitely plan on doing.
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