So, here’s a little update.
We are in the middle of summer, with unbearable work days with long lazy days of nothing to do in between. I can’t wait to start school again, to be just a student at a college again instead of being staff. With midsummer semester starting at work we’re going to be up to our ears in orientations and confused students. Oh joy. I love my job but it lacks the type of creativity I like.
At work I help design online courses (distance learning) with professors and I also teach them how to use our online system. Creativity plays into this differently than it would in the design world. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but it can get boring going over the same list things day in and day out. A lot of the creativity comes into play when we have to figure out how we can use technology in a academic way, such as the iPad, Android devices, tablet net books, and other types of electronics devices. Other times we may need to find ways to implement Web 2.0 technology in the class room. It’s all becomes very boring after a few years of doing it. Luckily I may have another freelance job soon.
I always find design to be fun and exciting, there are always new skills you can teach yourself. Sometimes you need to learn new methods or skills to achieve what you want to portray. That is one of my favorite aspects of designing, learning new methods of creations. But, I digress.
The job is another logo, two of my aunts own part of a nail salon with a few other people and they need their logo redesigned. It should be fun, I hope. My mother created their original logo with MS Word years and years ago so what ever I create it will be a improvement, although she did a great job using just Word.
I’m also throwing around a personal project that surrounds and axe in the style of German Propaganda Posters. Yeah, don’t ask it’s one of those weird things you think of in the car and go, “Now that’s a good idea!” and then you swerve out of the middle of the road.
