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Design Interests

Why Graphic Design?
I was never really subconsciously interested in graphic design until I started to look more and more at advertisements. Then I started to look at logos, and cartoons, and then one day it just clicked. I have always had a passion for business and marketing and anything in that field. All through out high school I loved every aspect of business but then when I came to Keene State and experienced the management program all of freshman year I realized that this was not the right career choice. I decided I wanted something very specific. I realized I wanted to create advertisements and put my ideas out into the world. Never would have I thought of becoming a Graphic Design major but here I am loving every single minute of it. I finally found something that I love that will also help me in the right direction of the career path I have chosen. Two areas of graphic design that interests me are the advertisement design aspect and also publication design.

Advertisement Agency
I want to work in an advertisement agency in which their ads really make consumers stop and really thinking about the ad. My favorite advertisement that I constantly think about is the one with about handicapped people and Mt.Everest. It is such a simple concept put into a place that would not usually be found there (ads tend to be on walls, billboards, etc.) and it truly makes you think. Every day we see hundreds of advertisements and we don’t even know it. We also believe that we don’t fall for them but we do every single day. Advertisements fulfill our lives and control our way of living whether we know it or not and I just think it’s so incredibly fascinating. Another advertisement that I find very clever is the one for Schick razors. The creators of the advertisement really take an everyday/ordinary feature or concept and really think outside the box with it. It’s truly amazing to look at all the different advertisements in the world and really see how other people think.

Publication Design
Publication design is such a sensitive topic to talk about. Like advertisements, we fall into publication design and subconsciously change our way of living. That being said, I believe publication design is such a delicate issue in where it can be used in a odd way. For an example, photoshopping can be such a sensitive topic in where the designer is unappreciative of the bodies that are given to them. Why hire these people to model for your magazine and put them on the front cover if you’re just going to photoshop their bodies? Publication design I believe is being more and more questioned and aware in which I have yet to decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.