The typical 'Introduction' post?

Hello everyone. Um, a brief introduction of myself. My name is Valenisha (Val), a Scorpio, and I work as a part-time barista in a Korean Cafe called Tom N Toms Coffee. I am a free-lance designer, full-time student, and a lifetime K-POP lover.

This blog is created with the intent of recording down my Creative Process Journal for my final year as a Degree student in Lasalle, majoring in Design (Advertising) Communication. Now, some of you would think, that the idea of recording the process in the blog is kind of lame, but hey, it's my process. Haha. Moving on... I know most people who read this blog would wonder why I name it 'val-defines' instead of the standard sappy 'Creative journal of Valenisha' or 'Val's Creative Journey' or whatever. Well, I kind of thought of this name while I was reading an awesome book I bought from Basheer a few days back. Let me show you the book cover.

I read through (well, not really word-by-word but hey, at least I read it through!) the whole book within a few hours. It basically contains drawings or mind-maps created by familiar names in the industry, with the intention of describing what is Process in a project for them. It was fun and interesting how some of them hardly spent more than five hours (in fact I don't think they even spent more than two) doing researches or mind-maps when given a task or brief. In the first chapter of the book, it said of how "Process is Personal" and I couldn't agree more.

And since it is personal... Here I am. I have always loved blogging and I think that this is how I relate to show my personal connection doing the process of my project. Anyway, that book is awesome to read, so you should probably get one or borrow it from the library. 'val-defines' already explains it; this is my personal journey, the record of the process defining the design issue I want, and defining what solution, thoughts, and my creative insights will be about what I'm going to do and elaborate as this blog goes on.

I should really continue doing my mind-map now. Will post more later. Zooms~!