Student Designer

I started a small on-the-side job for myself doing freelance web and graphic design a couple years ago to make extra money since I moved to Florida from Memphis, Tennessee to attend college. I started my website because I felt that being in an area with more opportunities and small businesses, finding a person or company that needed a website would be as easy as going door to door and for them money wasn't a problem! What I found was pretty surprising -- many of them were not satisfied with their current web "designer". So what happens when you take a company desperate for a more personalized website and a poor, starving college student with the necessary skills? Both parties get what they want -- a unique website that meets every require and a lifetime supply of ramen noodles (or double cheeseburgers). Today, I have learned a lot after getting a job doing web design for an automotive group and fulfilling my own clients' needs. No matter what the client needs or prefers, I have consulted and designed for many different types of companies who came out completely satisfied. I've ventured as far as learning the ins and outs of the Adobe Creative Suite to various scripting languages. All of which was learned from my own passion in design and truely helping companies or teaching my clients how they can use the internet to make themselves known or their businesses more efficient. My motivation and inspiration comes from many things. For one, I was always an artist since I was a child. I would draw and draw and draw and draw! After I got my first computer I started to experiment and eventually taught myself the elements of design. Probably the most important factor is that I eventually want my own successful design agency. This is not only a goal that I've had but also to show to my parents (who were refugees from Cambodia) that I've become successful and that their dreams have come true. In the end I simply want to live happy and to make my family proud.

Before I had my Intel processor, I would find myself spending more time to work out. As I taught myself more methods and techniques, I needed a computer that would keep up with me. After outgrowing my old processor and getting a new computer, the Core 2 Duo met every need that I had. I could quickly batch process images in photoshop to deliver a photoshoot to a client or I could easily switch back and forth between Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Flash. When you can run all four of those applications at once, switch back and forth with hardly any troubles or worries about crashing, that's reassuring. How many designers out there remember working all night on that Photoshop or Flash file -- doing a major change and then *CRASH* (no MAC/PC excuses here, It's happened to me on BOTH). I have really done a lot with this processor. I've converted movie formats for use with Flash, editted RAW photos in Lightroom to transfer to Photoshop or upload to my Gallery2 gallery on the internet, edited music and soundclips in Acid Pro, to simply writing an essay for my business class. The Intel processor, simply put, reduced production time, enabled my software to work smoothly and more efficiently, allowed me to manipulate photos on the fly, and established a huge sense of reliability and comfort that I have for my computer. And guess what? I'm ready to jump into video editing and the Quad Cores are looking reaaaaaaaaaalll nice..!!

Art, Video

BONH uses a laptop powered by  

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor