To best summarize myself I'd have to take a quote from an old mentor of mine that once described me as someone, "who likes to have fun but always shoots straight."
I've been helping and mentoring graphic designers for a number of years on and off. My job as a junior graphic designer at the University of Texas saw many interns come and go and it helped create a knack for teaching within a fun and safe environment. Flash forward 5 years and I'm a senior designer with new interns every...
To best summarize myself I'd have to take a quote from an old mentor of mine that once described me as someone, "who likes to have fun but always shoots straight."
I've been helping and mentoring graphic designers for a number of years on and off. My job as a junior graphic designer at the University of Texas saw many interns come and go and it helped create a knack for teaching within a fun and safe environment. Flash forward 5 years and I'm a senior designer with new interns every semester getting them prepared as best I can with the real-world job they eventually get hired for.
My tutoring style is catered toward college student juniors and seniors on the verge of graduating and needing help with individual projects and assignments. I'm not one to hold your hand and your project will not become my project. Instead, you will receive real-world constructive criticism (i.e. yes that perfume box looks great, but legally you could never put this here, etc), and be shown guidance from the initial phasing of sketching and concepting, to the final mockup or photography shot.
I am a back-to-back two-time Product Of the Year award winner for branding and packaging (BuzzTallz and Uptown Cocktails), and as such, I focus my tutoring on these subjects. From thinking of creative logo ideas to how a package design would be perceived on a store shelf, I can help assist in and beyond these print categories.
TLDR; I'm always going to be honest with my students in terms of constructive criticism, but in the end they *will* come out a better branding designer.
I cut my teeth on Adobe Illustrator. If there is any program that I can say I have a master-level knowledge in, it is this one. Tips and tricks that I know from industry veterans will be a treasure trove of knowledge for you as well.
Photoshop is one of those programs that took me a long time to figure out. Even now I believe other young professionals have a leg up on what you can do with the program. My knowledge here isn't going to be the fastest shortcu
