Year of the Dragon

Well, it has been over a month since I’ve post­ed any­thing, and life has been pret­ty busy and excit­ing for me. The year of the drag­on is off to a fan­tas­tic start!

To start off the new year, I decid­ed I would take a chance and present a strat­e­gy for a web­site redesign to the Pres­i­dent of Fin­ished Art, Inc. I used the skills I devel­oped in grad­u­ate school and it paid off! I was not sure how my dia­grams and sketch­es would be per­ceived since it was the first time I tried it out in a busi­ness set­ting. The man­age­ment team was impressed, so I am cur­rent­ly spear­head­ing a web­site redesign and the cre­ation of a new blog.

The dif­fer­ent back­grounds, inter­ests and tal­ents of each mem­ber of the Fin­ished Art team is what sets this com­pa­ny apart from oth­er small agen­cies. I want­ed to find a bet­ter way to share this diver­si­ty and pas­sion with FA’s clients and poten­tial new busi­ness part­ners, as well as give each team mem­ber the oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow and explore his/her inter­ests.

Most graph­ic design­ers can relate to the lament that many jobs com­ing in are not always inter­est­ing, so my hope is to give each employ­ee the chance to be cre­ative in their down­time and be involved in shap­ing the direc­tion of new busi­ness. Ide­al­ly, the posts they pub­lish could intrigue a poten­tial client, then they could get the chance to work on a project relat­ed to their inter­ests.

In oth­er news, I am mov­ing to New York in lit­tle over a month! It has been a long time com­ing.

UPDATE: Check out the design of Fin­ished Art’s new web­site here!