Last Week of Classes!

Hey all,

Maybe it is the realization that I am radically shifting directions in life from a scholastic lifestyle to the corporate digital design world but I feeling a mixture excitement and anxiety. Due to my motivation to start my new career, I have agreed to begin working the day after graduation. Even though this only leaves me 1 week off between the end of classes and the first day on the job I am excited to begin the next chapter of my life.

After reading chapters 1 and 2 Professions and Adaptation, I think that I made the right choices toward choosing the right career for me. Though I enjoyed gained insight into the vast creative fields, I did not agree with the strict categorization of jobs and their portfolio requirements. I believe that the creative field are fluid in their ranges of specialty.

I was surprised by the simplicity from www.deluxepaint.net or currently http://www.fistik.com/cemre_website/ but the level of skill the artist possessed. http://www.cefaratti.com/ demonstrated a greater technical proficiency but like deluxe paint, the website is dated. It is too small to navigate effectively and makes the user feel constrained. The work is easily accessible but neither visually striking or entertaining.

Thus far the only site that provided both a visually appealing and technologically advanced means of providing a conduit for a well crafted breadth of creative work is Jamey Stillings' web portfolio. His site is elegant in its ability to retain an air of simplicity and white space in a complex website. It is the type of site that I sit back and wish I had the ability to design such an elegant design.

Other than the web examples shown in Chapter 2, I like the notion of picking a real world client and create mock presentation for said company. While creating my own portfolio I invented my own products to created an entertaining advertising campaign. Instead of inventing new entertaining products, I should create advertisements for companies I enjoy.

Well folks thats all for that post!