This be in workshop was about branding ourselves to the outside world. The speaker was Ryan David Dejong, and he has done a lot of diffrent things. he started by showing us some of the companies he has worked for and where he is right now. 

He stressed the importance of the four Ps which stand for “Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”. this was directed towards getting a job in your field. You should know who it is you are talking to and what the company is about. Then how your social media also plays a big part in the hiring process because they want to know who they’re company is getting involved with.
then tailoring your resume for the job and letting it be a tool to get you in the door. i learned that you should always be updating your resume even if you are not looking for a new job. You never know when an opportunity to work at a better or your dream company may open up. updating it may take sometime and by the time you may have it the way you want the window to uploaded it maybe too late.

As a class we recently took a small trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum. to be honest i have never heard about this museum and i had new clue what it had. I know that pretty bad, being that i am from the greatest city in the world and there’s so many amazing museum around me.

The first piece of design you’re introduced to when you get to the Museum is this amazing interactive pen that works with the whole museum.  This pen lets you go up to any exhibits  in the museum and save it on to the pen so that later you can log on at home or wherever you maybe and you can see everything you saved onto the pen.  most of the art works and exhibits have a small circular area where you place, either the tip of the pen or the top part of the pen and it’s able to save it. 

To me this is amazing and also part of the reason i choose design as my career. Recognizing a problem and doing something to fix it. how many times do people go to a museum and see something the absolutely love but can’t take a picture of it because there camera and phone died. Maybe they have the picture but cant rember the creator of the piece or what meaning it had. this pen can actually save all of that !  The Cooper Hewitt Museum has over 1000 exhibits and you can store all of them in the pen. you can basically visit the whole museum over if you really wanted too!  In the bottom floor there’s also an exhibit about how and why the pen was made which was really cool since i almost saved about 300 pieces with it.

The Cooper Hewitt had an exhibit just about pixar. Now growing up i remember watching toy story Monsters inc and even the little lamp short before every pixar film. i would never get tired of them because it was simply amazing from the storytelling to the design of every character.  Here they had a full exhibit including storyboards, concept sketches, scripts and many other things that helped create some of my favorite childhood memories. one of my favorite animated characters woody  had his own iteration exhibition. i was looking at the creative process of the people who made Woody.

 This is a Concept art. It was created by Steve Johnsonand Lou Fancher and created by Pixar Animation Studios.

This is a Luxo Jr. script. It was created by Pixar Animation Studios and created by John Lasseter.

This is a poster. It was designed by Richard Niessen. It is dated 2015. Its medium is screenprint.

aside from the pixar exhibition the Print and digital poster exhibition was very interesting and eye catching. all those colors popping and the text placement really pulled your vision too it.

This is a poster. It was designed by Non-Format, Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss. It is dated 2014. Its medium isoffset lithograph.

 
leaving the museum i definitely feel very much more inspired and creatively refreshed. i  saw a lot of things that will help my think through my designs better. i will definitely be coming back to.

I would also like to announce here my new “Yee Chair” coming to an Ikea near you for only 200 dollars a piece. It was designed with the unique and flawless UX pen at the Smithsonian Design museum.

Week i went to two events. One was about Photography design at City tech (Meet the pros) , the other was more about entrepreneurship and how to keep up and mentorship (BE.IN Symposium).

Christine Blackburne was the special guest at this MTP event (meet the pros). She is  a professional photographer who shoots mainly small objects that can be set up on a tabletop, or how she said it ” i’ll shoot just about anything that fits on a table top, and i’ve shot more makeup than you can scrape of a kardashian”.  At first she spoke to us about how she struggled to get where she is at right now and assisted many photographers for about 7 years. What i took away most from that was that by assisting all this photographers she knew what it was that she enjoyed about photography and what she didnt want from photography. She showed us a lot of her work and even some of her collaborative work with professor Eli which was very interesting. when the event ended she was immediately swamped by so many students who wanted to continue asking questions.  I left but i felt like i had gotten enough insight from her talk to help me in my career.

The very next day I went to the BE.IN symposium at one of the LIU buuildings.  the talk was not about design, it was a discussion featuring key innovators of major companies on the brooklyn tech triangle. Some of them were Ted Southern from final frontier design, Elisa Padilla from Barclay center and Jesse middleton from WeWork labs. they all shared their experiences and how they came about making it to where they are now. A lot of them explained how they didn’t go to college for what they currently doing. they also stressed spoke about how to find something you love and enjoy doing. Jesse Middleton talked about asking questions, because the worse answer you can get sometimes is just a no. But at least you tried and you know the answer. he also mentioned that he is very approachable and available for anyone to ask him questions about mentorship work or anything.  At the end of the event i was able to approach Jesse and talk to him very briefly. I introduced myself and told him how i was interning in the WeWork building at Dumbo. i also mentioned how i was looking for a new design internship for the summer, he told me to email him my info and he”ll pass around my stuff to some people who could help. I thanked him and left the event feeling very hopeful.

At my internship we’ve been talking about this google analytics even for sometime now. I had even helped somewhat in making the postcards that would be distributed that day. the even was going to be on St. Patrick’s day and it there was a slight chance that it was going to rain, so my supervisors didn’t expect all 250 people to show.  They did, all 250 people showed up and maybe some more. It was insane how quickly it filled up. there was free beer, free wine, and guacamole, but all of that was gone within the first hour.

When George began the speaker about what google analytics was, who’s using it, how to use it and why they should use it. the whole event was set up to not only inform people of what they can do with google analytics, but also to make companies gain interest with the company as well. There were two companies that whole whale works with one was power poetry and National Aphasia Association (NAA) Both companies have had major success with google analytics and giving them more interest from other people.

At the end of the event  Ann (my design supervisor) told me to follow her around while she spoke to some potential clients and current clients. people were coming up to her asking her more about analytics and how it could help their company. she introduced me to a lot of people and told them how i was their new graphic intern and what i have done till now.  At one point i got to talk to George the speaker and we spoke very briefly but it was very insightful. he told me how analytics with anything can help me out so much when creating a design, because it will let me know what my target audience is looking at what the enjoy what works what doesn’t work.

The big guns from Whole Whale (George, Ann, Laura, Julie.)

I thought people were going to be a bit more intense and just a boring talk, it was completely the opposite. This was great and being able to talk to people about how your designs can be improved by analytics.