Miranda Petrosky’s presentation was the most useful for me, even though Lynne and Dustin Meyer’s presentations were both really interesting. The different categories of design really blew me away; I realized just how many options I had, but that I could only access these options if I really hone my skills throughout the next four years. I know that at the beginning of the year I was thinking about working at an advertising agency, and while that is still definitely an option, I may also try to get into a design agency such as Arts and Recreation, or Helm’s. Another idea that I took away from that presentation was to pick one or two things, and get really good at them, because specializing in a whole bunch of things will just make it harder to be thorough.
http://volunteer.sxsw.com/internships (the graphic design internship)