April 2006 Archives
One of the best things fate ever pushed me into was the library. First, there was the bookmobile, which is the country version of an RV full of books. Then my first real job was in a library. I was sixteen and was responsible for shelving books in the children's room. Hey, it's always better to have pictures AND words. Over the two years I worked there, I memorized the Dewey Decimal System, a wonderful hierarchal organization tool that I'm sure my brain employs as I solve a myriad of design problems for impact, communication and delivery.
I am old enough to remember the world pre-cyberspace. Please, no laughter from the gallery. The internet holds the same wonderful potential of a world library: An index to everything in it. Provided bandwidth providers don't turn service delivery into the next status symbol and price speed out of reach of the average joe, the web has proven to change everything it touches. Of course, even with the aid of a good search engine, weeding out the useless is time consuming . It's hard to know which wicked worms, viruses, adware and spyware you may get in exchange for the information. This is my list of tried and true sites that won't bite back.
Over the rooftops of the little buildings that used to make up the Columbus College of Art and Design, looking towards downtown, to the west and above Beaton Hall; and to the north towards Worthington and the parking lot that now holds the new building, that was my CCAD. At first sight, I was disappointed that this conglomeration of little houses held my future in Advertising Design. What I learned was first class design, forget the building. There are lots of fancy buildings where they take your money and show you a good time; hang the education part of the deal. CCAD was tough; that row of quaint houses was a facade that housed six hours of homework for each class and there were no incompletes. No homework assignment meant an F.
