Author Archives: Kent Lam

As a college class requirement this semester, I was required to take an internship class where I find a potential company to intern at and to gain experience in the field.

Before my class even began I was already on the web browsing for different internship opportunities for my major, which is Graphic Design Production. At first I was refining my search to Graphic Design Production which mainly deals with production such as finding media kits, scheduling and making sure everything is good before it is ready to print. There were not that many options for that particular Graphic Design field online.

After a good couple of weeks instead of narrowing my search, I broaden it to doing Graphic Design also. Not before long I had gotten a two replies. The 1st one had ask me to send in my resume and online portfolio to him, but that was the last I heard of him. The second one was another internship that had called me to schedule an interview on November 20th at 1.

The interview wasn’t really like a true interview to me. When I arrived to the interview I was the first interviewee. Two other interviewee came after me. I had notice that I was not the only one that was confused with the situation that we were in. Like I said before I had an interview with a small company, but the office we were in was a financial advising office. It had completely threw all of us interviewee off and I had notice that all of us were browsing the internet for information about the financial group. It was later on that it was reveal to use that we were not interning at the financial group but the small company that we had initially plan to interview at.

At first he did a group orientation/presentation/overview of him and the small company he runs, and ask us to introduce ourselves. Afterward was the individual interview. Unlike other interview’s that I have gone to, this one was different instead of asking me questions after questions, he only asked for 1 or 2 questions and then to show him my portfolio. After showing my portfolio he said that I am accepted and will be receiving more information next week along with paperworks that need to be brought in.

The following week I had brought in my paperworks and had began my internship the following day. I had to start quick because of how late it was already in the semester and that I had to crank out 120 hours of internship within 4-5 weeks that was left. So as of now I am 3 weeks in and have gotten 71 hours, and have 2 weeks left of internship and 1 week left til the semester is over.

The lesson of this narrative is, don’t limit yourself to a specific internship when looking for one. Broaden your search.

The following is a blog post idea that I have taken from Chris Brogan as a topic to write.

Everybody has a time where they get exhausted from a hard and stressful week. I know that for a fact cause that is exactly whats going on during midterms and finals where everything all jam packed into a week or probably even a day. But once that day or week is over, you feel like the weights have been lifted off your shoulders and want to do something to relax and recharge yourself for the following day or week.

For me, there’s a couple of things I like to do to recharge and relax myself. Mainly if there’s a new game out that me and my fellow buddies had bought, we would spend a good couple of hours playing the game and releasing that pent up stress to enjoy myself. We would be playing and communicating on Skype talking and joking about the stupid things we do in the game. If there’s no new games out or everyone else is busy, I would sit back and enjoy some good old T.V. shows that were aired during the week.

Source: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/100-blog-topics-i-hope-you-write/

Credit: Chris Brogan

The mission of Black Layers Design blog is to help me establish and show my interested in the Graphic Design field and to help me secure a job within this field. My blog will mainly tend to be geared towards graphic designers in the field along with students or people that show interest in graphic design.  I want my audience to be able to gain some knowledge when they visit my blog.

The name of the blog Black Layers Design was derived from my initials K and L.  In the Graphic Design field K is recognized for black and as for L, graphic designer normally associate it with layers, hence the name Black Layers.