This summer I traveled to Italy with some classmates and professor Toni Lee to see the originals of many of the pieces we have been studying since high school. Staying in Florence, there was an overwhelming amount of media at all times. Signs, graffiti, ads playing on screens inside of shops....and in the piazzas (at ALL times of the day and night) there was live music, street performers, and entertainment. In some ways, it was a totally different experience than the U.S. media, while some means of advertising stayed the same. At times, it was much more elegant seeing the ads, because the text was in a foreign language, so one had to figure out what it was saying without actually understanding the words. Pretty interesting...
I really do not have a huge problem with the overwhelming abundance of media that socks me in the face every time I turn a corner...I love it. To me, there's just something so lovely about reading a sign or watching a commercial. The one thing that does get to me, though, are how hideous the random ads on most websites (facebook is my number one annoyance) make the webpage look. Aesthetically, some ads just destroy all the work a designer put into making a site look tight. My dream would be to clean up the advertising filth on the web..... I might sound way to harsh or critical, but I guess I take it quite personally as a designer...we come and go to school and get 100k in debt in student loans...we're educated to do this stuff right. So hire us to do it right. :]
I plan on either going to grad school right after Champlain or doing Teach For America for two years and then grad school. In grad school I want to either specialize in marketing/communication, or become a user interface/experience analyst. I want to go beyond design on so many levels and get to the big picture of media and advertising.
I want to go here!
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