It's been a while since my last entry, but I assure you, I have not been idle! Between my job, school, and other obligations, I've had little time for bloggery. Never the less, I've come to give you an update, and here it is:
My internship has expanded from a part time affair to a full time job, at least for the summer. Seeing as I have only been there for a few months, my boss has decided to give me a longer go, and at the end of that time, we'll reevaluate whether I might be given a permanent position or not. This is pretty agreeable to me, as even if I don't end up there, I have something loaded up for the months immediately following graduation.
Graduation! Which, by the way, is approaching far too rapidly. Not only does it mark the end of a most excellent era of my life, but it also marks the end of this semester. As I sit here in the library at 5:30AM, I promise you that I am not yet prepared for the end of the semester. My portfolio site was rolling along, sometimes roughly, but surely, until today when I hit a wall. It seems that for reasons unknown to me (and so far, the adobe community at large) buttons inside of movie clips do not care to perform the functions I associate with them. This is a bit of an issue when considering that all of the thumbnails in my portfolio are buttons as such, and are thus unable to call up the work they relate to. God willing a solution will present itself soon.
In the mean time I've been building a PDF version for printing. It's looking a bit rushed at the moment, but I'm hopefully about polishing it up to a lovely shine before zero hour.
What other news? I did some reading in Building Design Portfolios, which seems like a fairly handy book. One thing it has continued to reinforce in me (inadvertently) is my distaste for what I'll call "generic good design". Yes, the status quo is fine, but I feel like the best designers need to be trying to move into new areas and try new things. We can only go so far if we merely repeat and rehash the proven techniques.
