Will be photographing bar and hope to capture an image of this style.

Will be photographing bar and hope to capture an image of this style.

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Three fields of design that I would like to pursue are book design, advertising and branding, and information design. I believe that these three areas of design triggered my interest because these are all areas that I have found through class that I have thoroughly enjoyed and tend to put my time and interest towards. I find book design very interesting because it is the first impression to the audience as to whether or not buy the book. Also, you get to read the book before the public, hopefully, to enhance the atmosphere of your design and to portray the story the best you can visually. I would love to visually give the audience the feeling to want to pick up the book especially when they didn't know anything about the book. Advertising and branding is another point of interest that would be as of interest to me to pursue. I feel like any kind of design is a aspect or branch of some type of advertisement. How cool would it be to see your design on a billboard of a major interstate?! Branding is giving a company an identity and helping them get on their "feet" and create a personality for them. Everything and everyone needs a personality of their own to separate them from the rest and the norm and to be a part of that would be fulfilling as a designer. When I take surveys a lot of the last questions are "how did you hear about us?" and almost always one of the options is advertisement. Information design is also another area that I would like to further advance my experience. I am really interested in wedding invitations because I cannot find myself not looking at wedding invitations at least once a day and that is definitely important information for at least one time in a girls life! Also, I enjoy doing brochures and information packets.

Some company's that I would be very interested in:
The Paper Company - Wilmington, NC
Wedding Designers
Modular Graphics - Wilmington, NC
GHL Designs - Raleigh, NC
Wedding Designers

Bad Websites

1. gopack.com
NC State's athletic webpage is very busy and confusing. The interactive graphics and motion banners is a bit much for a university athletic page. I believe that this could be portrayed in a much cleaner and more organized way. For example, I would think that the ticket link would be one of the major attributes of this page and yet it is at the top of the page in a very small text.

2. http://www.kyledesigns.com/category/13_unique_gifts.bookmarks/
Well, this is a design website and it is horrific. I was searching unique bookmark design and this was the first option under google. So, I clicked on it and long and behold this is what popped up. To say there is too much going on is a understatement.

3. http://www.cfnc.org/
I hate this website. When I was looking at colleges, I first came here to sign up and make an account. I have never been so confused in my life. This site's design could use a massive improvement but also some cleaning up. The information is scattered among the homepage and is very hard to maneuver around.