Summer Plans

June 21, 2007 by Dennis Baker 

I am working with Graphic Design USA three times a week in New York City. The company produces a monthly graphic design magazine that is used by various graphic design companies to track trends. GD USA also runs various contests. I have been hired to help with their website tracking and process the current contest they are running. American Graphic Design Awards is a three decade-old competition sponsored exclusively by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is open to everyone in the community: advertising agencies, graphic design firms, corporate, institutional and publishing inhouse departments, and more. It honors outstanding new work of all kinds: print and collateral, packaging and point-of-purchase, internet and interactive design, broadcast and motion graphics, corporate identity and logos. Winners receive an embossed Certificate of Excellence for each piece selected and become eligible for reproduction in Graphic Design USA’s Awards Annual, a 300-page edition which will be seen by more than 100,000 at ad agencies, graphic design firms, inhouse departments and more during the course of the year.

I also have signed up with Central Casting, an extra casting company in the city. They are known as the premiere extra casting company in Los Angeles, but only have had offices in NYC for about a year. I am eligible to join actor’s equity, the theater union, once I complete three days of extra work as a SAG member. I also have to wait till I have been a SAG member for a year, which will be in September. The office seems pretty quite right now. They are gearing up to do a movie of the week in July in Connecticut for Oprah’s production company. Hopefully I can get some work on that project. I have also sent in headshots to Extra Extra Casting, Kee Casting, and Amerifilm Casting.

I have researched and found a web design certificate program at Middlesex County College in the nearby town of Edison. I missed the summer dates for the Dreamweaver and Photoshop classes. I will be enrolling in three classes this summer: Database concepts, PHP programming, and PHP and SQL Database. I am excited to get these tools under my belt and be able to get to the next level in this profession. Next summer I am planning on taking classes in Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop. If I am able to also want to do two online courses in JSP and Javascript.

Last, but not least, I am also tutoring in math and SAT math prep. I am currently working with an organization called Club Z. I just completed working with a student in Algebra and now working with a student in Geometry. I have also placed ads on Craigslist in the New York and Central New Jersey area. I am hoping those will create some leads to round out the week of work.

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