Welcome to my first Blog.
I have never written a Blog before
but am starting one for my graphic design classes I am currently taking at
Parkland College, GDS 108 and 102. I just started college this week and I am
already doing something I hate, writing. I have been out of high school for 5
years now so going to college made me a little nervous; however I am lucky to
be in classes that I think I will enjoy. By doing this blog I feel that I
will be able to look back on where I am starting to where I will be at the end
of my graphic design program. In my blogs I will be discussing photos I take
that deal with graphic design.
A little about myself, I was born in Effingham
IL then moved down to the suburbs of Atlanta GA for about ten years. I moved
back to IL in 2004 where I went to High School in Mahomet. After I graduated, I
went off to the Marine Corps where I spent the past five years. I enjoyed my
time in as it gave me chances to go to countries around the world and work and
meet new people. Now that I am back home, it will give me time to settle down
and spend more time with my family and my wife Ariel. Me and my wife met in
High School. She doesn't like when I tell the real story on how we met but I'm
going to say it anyways. She stocked me in PE class. Everything I did she did
as well and because of her I got my first B in PE class. The teacher said it
had something to do with focusing on her more than the Frisbee getting thrown
around the room. She is currently enrolled at Parkland as well in the radiology
program.
I chose Graphic Design because I think it will be
something I will enjoy doing. On the opposite side of that, I have never been
an artsy person. The last art class I had was back in elementary school, so I
know I have a ways to go and am probably behind most who start off in this field.
As a kid my dad worked for the department of transportation. He would
occasionally bring me in and would make road signs for the county. I thought it
was the coolest thing watching him design the sign, send it to the machine that
cut it out on vinyl, then apply it to the metal backing. So about a year ago I
decided to buy a 24 inch vinyl cutter to play around with. It didn't take long
before I figured the basics of vector graphics and began cutting out custom
vinyl graphics for my friends cars. While getting a haircut at my barber one
day, it came up in conversation. The owner said he needed some new store hours
for his window and asked if I would be willing to do it for him. This was the
first of many projects he had me doing and when I thought there could be no
more signs to make for this guy, he said he was opening a new store the next
town over and he wanted me to do all the windows, signs, banners ext. Through
the word of mouth I started getting calls from other local business to do their
store fronts as well. It was very exciting for me to see my work on the outside
of stores when I drove by. I knew I wanted to start a business someday with
this but my time in the military was coming to an end and I was leaving California
and my client base behind. When signing up for college, I was pretty set on
going into business, but as I was scrolling through the list I saw graphic
design and I knew this sounds like a better road to take, besides my wife is
minoring in business. And a couple months later here I sit in my first Graphic
design classes.
