By Kathleen Hellem Interview with Dusty Johnson

I decided to create my audio project using Adobe Audition, and my topic was bike themed content. There are so many different styles of riding a bicycle. Mountain, road, cycle cross, touring, and commuting to name a few. 

The design process of my interview includes short, complete and conversational questions. Dusty, the gentleman in my neighborhood that I interviewed, was able to express what he likes and dislikes about cycling in general, while doing so his personality really showed through. I’m inspired by his ability to use his bicycle for so many different uses in general. I see Dusty around town often. He is always tooling around with his bike and takes great pride in keeping it in the best operating condition possible. Dusty helps people when they need a mechanic too. This inspired me to interview him. In general, anything bike related, he knows a little something about. There are no right or wrong answers. I was interested to talk about cycling from Dusty’s perspective. I appreciated his time and getting to know him a little better. Like all cyclists, we both have similar gripes about weather and automobiles and their constant threats to us, but more importantly we share a passion for bicycles in general, and love of the sport. 

How I collected the data for my audio project was using voice recorder on my computer. In addition, Dusty provided a picture of his bike trailer loaded down headed to the recycle place. While, this isn’t his main usage of the bike, I found this to be one of the best images of hauling cans that I’ve ever seen. 

The tools I used was mainly the razor tool to make many, many cuts. The slip tool which allows the ability to move small chunks of the recording and   … Lot’s of cutting and moving. Some of the challenges I experiences was condensing material and capturing what’s relevant. The raw data gathered was lengthy lending to a lot of editing. My tips to anyone is to ZOOM in with your magnifying glass in order to get precise individual words edited. Otherwise, it takes too long.

I’m looking forward to creating my final draft.  I hope this helps my classmates and I look forward to seeing your drafts.

My final logo took many hours! I’m pleased with the results over all. I like riding bicycles in my spare time and PBC is Portland Bicycling Club founded in 1971. We recently changed our name from Portland Wheelmen Touring Club this year to be more inclusive. I volunteer at Portland Sunday Parkways annually and many people didn’t like the “wheelmen” portion of our club name. Something about excluding women and non-binary. Problem solved.

My peers at WSU made suggestions which I implemented for the most part. For example, I put yellow lines in the road to depict and actual road and centered my text. I wasn’t able to produce an actual bicycle at this point, as one of my peers recommended. The COG alone took me three hours alone. Some of the processes was using the layers windows to hide portions of my project while I was working on my project. I have 5 layer, and multiple effects on each layer. I learned to the scale tool, used compound path, locked selected sections down in order to prevent unintended selections of things I didn’t want to change. I like using layers because it enables me to manipulate individual sections. I used star, ellipse, rectangular tools. I did a bunch of arranging, moving items to the back and front. I used the stroke tool to added weight. I used the scissors tool to cut away portions of the shapes I didn’t want. I went with MV Boli font and used warp and arch functions. I used the appearance tab to manage my layers.

This has been a journey! Thank you, everyone for the feedback and direction.

Kathleen Hellem

Logo Draft

This is my logo draft. I’m not satisfied with my bicycle cogs. I used the polygon tool, rectangle too, and layers to get to this point. My road took me awhile to add and I think my final will have a different outline layer completely. I’m going to attempt to draw my own cog and add 15-20 sides to it. I’m trying to represent bicycling. I don’t think this is where I want it just yet. I look forward to feedback from my group to help me get there. I stand to win a free jersey if my design is accepted. The pressure is on!