careers in design herman lee freshfauxx
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This was a PowerPoint for my summative project in Graphic Design where I had to interview a graphic designer and basically produce a biography and interesting facts that will inspire the class to become graphic designers.TRANSCRIPT
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CAREERS IN DESIGN
HERMAN LEEFRESHFAUX
X
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H E R M A N . L E E
• 22 years old, male• Designer for 4 years• Originally from
Toronto/Markham• Now lives and works in
Hong Kong• www.freshfauxx.com
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Baby Dream?
• Art was the only thing he was good at in school
• Doodled, scribbled, and drew in class
• Paid no interest to other subjects
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Educated Minds• Graduated from Graphic
Design at George Brown College this April
• Learned more on own than going to school, however learned skills like teamwork
• 1 year of Visual Fundamentals
• 3 years of Graphic Design, majoring in Advertising
• OCAD was first choice, but got rejected
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Sans Texte: Solving By Playing / DESIGN SHOW/
emerge: 2008 Design Graduate Show
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His favorite project to date.
Took 2 weeks to complete a 3 month project.
Pulled lots over overnighters.
The project got selected into the Design Graduate
Show
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He Leads a Double Life
• Graphic designer at Hong Kong fashion label company called CLOT (www.clotinc.com) by day– Only been working
for four months– First full time job
• Freelance designer by night
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Herman at Work
• As a freelancer: does not have agents– Clients directly
contact him by email or phone
– Asks for logo designs
• At CLOT: most are in-house projects and different collaborations with other fashion labels
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Today, Everyday
1. Wake up2. go to work3. turn on computer4. talk to boss for projects5. design & complete6. repeat 4 & 5Works from 11 am – 8pm:flexible time goes to
workat 12:30 pm as long as
workis completed
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Due Dates
• Freelance: usually comes up with own deadlines, generally a timeframe of a week per project
• Only pressures experienced was meeting tight deadlines from school. Other than that, his job is quite relaxing
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Inspirations
• www.ffffound.com• “making
something really nice looking”
• Books, movies, daily conversations, webs, dreams
• everything
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FRESHFAUXX?
• “Just sounded cool when I first started with it”
• Wanted the words ‘Fresh’ and ‘Faux’ to balance out on either side of a hoodie. The extra ‘X’ was born
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London shots
PHOTOGRAPHY
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DESIGN
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• keeps a site with friend Penter, called thefamiliarstragers.com which is a site that they keep up “to provide unique design contents for strangers alike.” The blog intends to be an informal design journal of 2 different designers who shares the same belief of providing thoughtful views and contents. Also, it is a medium to keep track on both designer’s progress and learning experience.
• http://www.behance.net/herman• http://www.flickr.com/photos/freshfauxx
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AWESOME SAUCE!