spring is always the quarter with a ton of bajillion things going on just because it's the end of the school year and companies come in to grab the awesome talents from the school. tons of visiting artists and designers as well as companies. I have had the opportunities to listen to the lectures of world reknown designer Massimo Vignelli, Matteo Bologna, Nick Campbell, owner of greyscalegorilla.com and ex designer at Digital Kitchens, Psyop, one of the largest motion graphics company in the US, and attend a lecture with Adobe and Apple on their latest product, the CS5 Suite. 10 lucky students from my school who were identified as talents were given the production premium CS5 suite the moment it will be released. JEALOUS. on the bright side, those who attended the lecture will also get several software freebies :)

it's crazy how technology improves. I still remember Photoshop 6.5 when I first started using it and as I look back and compare it with today's CS5, it's CRAZY how far we've come and how many improvements have been made to make our lives as designers easier, yet harder as the same time because such programs, and the ease of piracy, has almost enabled anyone to become a "designer". woes of my industry. at least the school will be updating their softwares again this summer so I'll be able to try it out on the school computers for free...well..not really. my extremely high tuition fees pay for that. but yeah. i'm lucky to be at scad. Very very few schools are able to upgrade every single version everytime. it is precisely because of this that puts SCAD above other design schools because we're trained with the latest technology for the industry. some schools are still stuck on using CS3. my only gripe with this is how it limits my work to school computers because CS5 is now running on a 64bit which makes it run a ton faster and smoother than CS4 but with that comes problems with plug-ins that doesn't exist in previous versions which pretty much screws up your work when you re-convert it or in some cases, you can no longer open it up unless u have CS5. oh woe woe woe.

Had my first ambassador meeting today. it was relatively fun. but then again...the ambassadors are made out of overly enthusiastic and happy friendly people. We had it at the SCAD equestrian center and I must say...that place is gorgeous. it's almost like a picture perfect country equestrian center in a movie. pretty flowers, white fences, happy horses galloping around, air conditioned. everything is so clean and neat the saddle area pretty much looks like a museum and the award room is FULL of ribbons. it's crazy that an art school can be national defending champions for equestrian competitions. but then again...we have pretty awesome sports teams. basically SCAD tries to make us an all rounded design school hence the school athletes are here on a full ride scholarship.

meh money....what an issue. PLS SCAD. PLS MDA. PLS DESIGNSINGAPORE. give me moolahhh. i will serve u...because i have no choice when i get the scholarships. HAHAHA.