It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been surfing a lot and it's time to share.

A couple of weeks ago I re-designed my art portfolio as a magazine and uploaded it to magcloud.com. You have to see the quality of the printed piece they sent me five days later to get the full understanding of the opportunities it opens up for designers. The company prints its magazines using an HP Indigo digital press with an on-demand production quality rivaling offset printing. At ¢.20 a page, you can't beat this for any on-demand printing. Check out the site and my magazine.

Number two on this list of cool items that need to be seen is the Philips Cinema display Corousel clown commercial and micro-site. Load the Web site full-screen and then use the dragger bar to scroll through the video. Amazing work created by Stink Digital in London for agency, Tribal DDB Amsterdam.

And the final item for this posting is a Brush King, a free Photoshop brush Web site located in Europe, with a huge number of incredible brushes for downloading and using in your projects.

Have fun with these links.

-Daniel

STUDENT PROFILE 1: SHERI HAMILTON

We get a lot of great design students taking classes in our Digital Art & Design department here at Butte College. Every week I'm going to post profiles of current and past design students.

Our first Student Profile is Sheri Hamilton. 

At the age of 24, and after three and a half years, Sheri graduated with a Graphic Design and Multimedia degree from Butte in 2006.

Sheri was one of our top design students for the years she was at Butte. In 2004 and 2005, she won awards for design in the Digital Dialog juried art shows our department held in conjunction with the CSU Chico Design department. Sheri took Best in Typography for one of her type posters in 2006, beating out CSU Chico design students.

While attending Butte, and for a year or so after graduating, Sheri worked in Oroville California as a Digital Artist/Retoucher for the Creative Imaging Center . CIC's focus is photo-retouching Senior photos for yearbooks. Sheri also designed labels for packaging, produced business cards, and worked with large format printing services for CIC. Working in this fast-paced environment really helped to develop Sheri's Photoshop and Illustrator skills.

Sheri interned with a company in Oroville for a semester, and also as a paid contractor and intern for In Your Face for a semester. Currently, Sheri works for Improvement Direct, a local Chico start-up company that sells home improvement products through their Web site. Improvement Direct has become one of the top home improvement sites on the Internet, and it's a real opportunity to get hired by them.

Sheri's job position for the company is Graphic Designer. Her job responsibilities currently include Web banner design and print design. Always wanting to increase her skills and knowledge about design, Sheri is also teaching herself CSS so she can begin taking on additional design responsibilities such as working on Improvement Direct's article pages.

END QUESTION: Do you have any plans beyond working for Improvement Direct?

SHERI'S ANSWER: "World Domination" (with a :-)

STATS:

Sheri Hamilton

Age 26

Employed as a Graphic Designer

Portfolio Link

If you would like to be profiled on our blog, get in touch with me here. I'm always looking to re-connect with our students and promote them any way I can.

-Daniel