1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?
I really enjoy all of the individuals who work at the design studio and mentor me so being able to spend two weeks working on my projects and being completely "immersed" in my work will not only be a great opportunity to create quality work but it will give me the experience of going to work form 9 to 4 everyday, giving me a real working experience. (also i can get a brief break from engineering)I feel this way because i am genuinely happy at my internship, i can attribute that to setting it up myself (Which i recommend to everyone) I think that decision will maximize the expirince and knowlege that I gain from immersion.
2.What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?
I am most concerned about the fact that for the first week i will be working with someone else in the company because my mentor will be skiing... I have never worked with this individual before so it is unknown if i will like her as much as my mentor or if she expects more or less of me. It is the fact that there is an unknown factor in my very first week of immersion. Otherwise i think it will all go fine.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
30 minutes with mah Boii B-Rrack
If i could go on a lunch date to quiznos with president obama and give him advice on the current state of the economy first i would recommend that we purchase the five dollar 12'' sandwich, for the benefit of the economy instead of the more expensive sandwiches that simply feature a different sauce or something trivial like that...
More importantly than our lunch our discussion on the economy would be the main focus of the lunch date. I have many solutions to our current economic crisis that I would be willing to share with him, all of which i assure are gaurenteed to fix the current state of the economy.
I would immediatly bring up his proposed 800 billion dollar bailout after he took his first bite of turkey and swiss. The bill which is currently being approved by congress will probably need revisions. These are the revisions that I would suggest. give the 800 billion dollars to every person in america to spend specifically on their public debts to banks, credit companies, and any other legitimate company. I personally would count to mob also... This would not only help out the banks which would be boosted, but it would act as a little economic stimulus because when people pay off their bills/ debt they will have money to spend on "stuff" that will make the country more money.
As Barrack Obama opened his bag of jalpeno flavored kettle chips i would mention the economic stimulus plan he is proposing. I would grab a few of his chips and munch on them as he waits for my advice. I would say to him that the bet way to stimulte the economy isnt to give people money to spend becuse that is only a temporary fix.
More importantly than our lunch our discussion on the economy would be the main focus of the lunch date. I have many solutions to our current economic crisis that I would be willing to share with him, all of which i assure are gaurenteed to fix the current state of the economy.
I would immediatly bring up his proposed 800 billion dollar bailout after he took his first bite of turkey and swiss. The bill which is currently being approved by congress will probably need revisions. These are the revisions that I would suggest. give the 800 billion dollars to every person in america to spend specifically on their public debts to banks, credit companies, and any other legitimate company. I personally would count to mob also... This would not only help out the banks which would be boosted, but it would act as a little economic stimulus because when people pay off their bills/ debt they will have money to spend on "stuff" that will make the country more money.
As Barrack Obama opened his bag of jalpeno flavored kettle chips i would mention the economic stimulus plan he is proposing. I would grab a few of his chips and munch on them as he waits for my advice. I would say to him that the bet way to stimulte the economy isnt to give people money to spend becuse that is only a temporary fix.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Interview Questions
- What field of design do You specialize in?
- Are there any familiar advertisments that my classmates would recognize?
- Where did you go to school?
- How did you come here to san diego?
- I know you specialize in design for construction materials, Was it a bussiness move?
- Why take on an intern?
- Does most of your business take place here in san diego?
- tell me a story about a client from hell.
- Where do most of your clients reside?
- How many projects a year are you involved in.
- How would you explain your studio's individual style?
- How many entries are you entering in this years addy awards?
- What do you think are the chances you you guys taking one home?
- At the addy's raid how do you think our pine wood derby car will stack up?
- How did you end up in the graphic design bussines?
- what advice would you give to an individual who was trying to get into the profession.
- What is the most important aspect of running a bussiness?
- Were do you find your employees?
- How do i stck up as an intern?
- Are there any familiar advertisments that my classmates would recognize?
- Where did you go to school?
- How did you come here to san diego?
- I know you specialize in design for construction materials, Was it a bussiness move?
- Why take on an intern?
- Does most of your business take place here in san diego?
- tell me a story about a client from hell.
- Where do most of your clients reside?
- How many projects a year are you involved in.
- How would you explain your studio's individual style?
- How many entries are you entering in this years addy awards?
- What do you think are the chances you you guys taking one home?
- At the addy's raid how do you think our pine wood derby car will stack up?
- How did you end up in the graphic design bussines?
- what advice would you give to an individual who was trying to get into the profession.
- What is the most important aspect of running a bussiness?
- Were do you find your employees?
- How do i stck up as an intern?
Design Principles
My writing partner Amanda and I came up with some design principles that we thought would make for a good interview. We thought some good interviews to follow were the interviews done by Mike Wallace because they followed our design principles.
"The Conversation Principle"
One of them would be a "non script sounding" conversation. When watching good examples of interviews we noticed that the interview didn't sound like just a question and answer session. The interviewee gave fairly long in depth answer and provided substantial evidence for their answer more like a conversation. Also, what made the interview sound "non script like" was how the interviewer would ask clarifying questions, if necessary, based off the answer the interviewee gave. There was no fear of improvising questions.
"WALLACE: Dali, first of all let me ask you this, you're a remarkable painter and you've dedicated your life to art, in view of this, why do you behave the way that you do? For instance, you have been known to drive in a car filled to the roof with cauliflowers. You lectured, as I mentioned, once with your head enclosed in a diving helmet and you almost suffocated. You issue bizarre statements about your love for rhinoceros horns and so on. You're a dedicated artist, why do you or why must you do these things?
DALI: Because for this kind of eccentricities correspond with more important and the more tragical part of my life.
WALLACE: The more important and the more tragical part. I don't understand.
DALI: The more philosophical.
WALLACE: Well, what is philosophical about driving in a car full of cauliflowers or lecturing inside a diving helmet?
DALI: Because discover and make one tremendous speech, a most scientific in the Sorbonne in Paris... of what my discovering of the logarithmic curve of cauliflower.
WALLACE: The what?
DALI: logarithmic curve of cauliflower.
WALLACE : Oh yes, the "logarithmic curve"... yes...
DALI: And if in time the logarithmic curve in the horns of rhinoceros -- in this time discover, this is a symbol of chastity, one of the most powerful symbols of modern times."
This is part of an interview Mike Wallace had with Salvador Dali. He asked why it was that he did such strange things and when he didn't understand he asked clarifying questions. This made it sound more like a conversation more then an interview which we thought was an aspect that made the interview good.
"The Prior Knowledge Principle" Another design principle we though makes for a good interview is that the interviewer has prior knowledge of the interviewee. In an interview we watched conducted by Mike Wallace he asked his interviewee Aldous Huxley about a previous essay he wrote. We liked the fact that he had a quote pulled out of that book and used it as evidence to ask a question, having obviously done his background research. We thought it made the interview more professional because Mike came across as very prepared for the interview. The interviewee may also elaborate and give you information that is in depth if they think you
"WALLACE: You write in Enemies of Freedom, you write specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns you say, "All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
HUXLEY: Well, this is the... during the last campaign, there was a great deal of this kind of statement by the advertising managers of the campaign parties. This idea that the candidates had to be merchandised as though they were so-called two-faced and that you had to depend entirely on the personality.
I mean, personality is important, but there are certainly people with an extremely amiable personality, particularly on TV, who might not necessarily be very good in political... positions of political trust."
"The Connection Principle" We noticed in the Mike Wallace interviews we watched that the interviewer and the interviewee have some sort of connection. It seems that they have spoken before or were not complete strangers. We feel, from experience, there is a much different vibe you get when you do or see an interview that is between two people who have just met for the first time, a more awkward feeling. In the interview we watched with Margret Sanger it states in the beginning that the interview was in no way rehearsed but we felt that while watching the interview it was very smooth and more like a conversation which made it pleasurable to watch and easy to stay focused while watching.
"WALLACE: Do you feel that Birth Control is essential to keep millions of people across the world from starving?
SANGER: Well, I think that Birth Control--if you keep the population more or less static until you pick up your resources, certainly you'll-- keep--prevent their starving.
WALLACE: Well, what's more important -- Birth Control or picking up the resources?
SANGER: Well, picking up the resources there's just a limit to that too. There's just so much -- take Japan -- and she cannot feed they've had the best experts come there when MacArthur was there and the best experts would say that they have twenty million more people than they can feed; she's got to be fed outside in some -- in some way. She's got to have that kind of help if she's going to keep from fighting."
My writing partner Amanda and I came up with some design principles that we thought would make for a good interview. We thought some good interviews to follow were the interviews done by Mike Wallace because they followed our design principles.
"The Conversation Principle"
One of them would be a "non script sounding" conversation. When watching good examples of interviews we noticed that the interview didn't sound like just a question and answer session. The interviewee gave fairly long in depth answer and provided substantial evidence for their answer more like a conversation. Also, what made the interview sound "non script like" was how the interviewer would ask clarifying questions, if necessary, based off the answer the interviewee gave. There was no fear of improvising questions.
"WALLACE: Dali, first of all let me ask you this, you're a remarkable painter and you've dedicated your life to art, in view of this, why do you behave the way that you do? For instance, you have been known to drive in a car filled to the roof with cauliflowers. You lectured, as I mentioned, once with your head enclosed in a diving helmet and you almost suffocated. You issue bizarre statements about your love for rhinoceros horns and so on. You're a dedicated artist, why do you or why must you do these things?
DALI: Because for this kind of eccentricities correspond with more important and the more tragical part of my life.
WALLACE: The more important and the more tragical part. I don't understand.
DALI: The more philosophical.
WALLACE: Well, what is philosophical about driving in a car full of cauliflowers or lecturing inside a diving helmet?
DALI: Because discover and make one tremendous speech, a most scientific in the Sorbonne in Paris... of what my discovering of the logarithmic curve of cauliflower.
WALLACE: The what?
DALI: logarithmic curve of cauliflower.
WALLACE : Oh yes, the "logarithmic curve"... yes...
DALI: And if in time the logarithmic curve in the horns of rhinoceros -- in this time discover, this is a symbol of chastity, one of the most powerful symbols of modern times."
This is part of an interview Mike Wallace had with Salvador Dali. He asked why it was that he did such strange things and when he didn't understand he asked clarifying questions. This made it sound more like a conversation more then an interview which we thought was an aspect that made the interview good.
"The Prior Knowledge Principle" Another design principle we though makes for a good interview is that the interviewer has prior knowledge of the interviewee. In an interview we watched conducted by Mike Wallace he asked his interviewee Aldous Huxley about a previous essay he wrote. We liked the fact that he had a quote pulled out of that book and used it as evidence to ask a question, having obviously done his background research. We thought it made the interview more professional because Mike came across as very prepared for the interview. The interviewee may also elaborate and give you information that is in depth if they think you
"WALLACE: You write in Enemies of Freedom, you write specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns you say, "All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
HUXLEY: Well, this is the... during the last campaign, there was a great deal of this kind of statement by the advertising managers of the campaign parties. This idea that the candidates had to be merchandised as though they were so-called two-faced and that you had to depend entirely on the personality.
I mean, personality is important, but there are certainly people with an extremely amiable personality, particularly on TV, who might not necessarily be very good in political... positions of political trust."
"The Connection Principle" We noticed in the Mike Wallace interviews we watched that the interviewer and the interviewee have some sort of connection. It seems that they have spoken before or were not complete strangers. We feel, from experience, there is a much different vibe you get when you do or see an interview that is between two people who have just met for the first time, a more awkward feeling. In the interview we watched with Margret Sanger it states in the beginning that the interview was in no way rehearsed but we felt that while watching the interview it was very smooth and more like a conversation which made it pleasurable to watch and easy to stay focused while watching.
"WALLACE: Do you feel that Birth Control is essential to keep millions of people across the world from starving?
SANGER: Well, I think that Birth Control--if you keep the population more or less static until you pick up your resources, certainly you'll-- keep--prevent their starving.
WALLACE: Well, what's more important -- Birth Control or picking up the resources?
SANGER: Well, picking up the resources there's just a limit to that too. There's just so much -- take Japan -- and she cannot feed they've had the best experts come there when MacArthur was there and the best experts would say that they have twenty million more people than they can feed; she's got to be fed outside in some -- in some way. She's got to have that kind of help if she's going to keep from fighting."
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