feeling good

So today I was suppose to have 2 interviews for internships, one with DK and the other at HA, but the DK guy was sick today so I’ll have to reschedule that one. But I did meet with the people at HA and I think it went pretty well! I actually recognized 4/5 of the people who met with me, which was nice and I think helped me feel more at ease. 1 guy was in my intro to mograph class, 2 were in the intro to after effects class, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the girl promoting AIGA at various events around town.

I felt a little more awkward with the guy I had never met, but I think most of that was because it was more talking about interaction design and not my work specificly (although he had seen it online already). I think I’m pretty comfortable talking about my own work because I’ve thought about it all a lot. But I’m a little less comfortable on the spot, even though it was meant to be a fairly “casual” conversation.

But overall they said I had a strong portfolio and seemed impressed, which is very reassuring coming from them. I also asked them for feedback about the work/presentation in general just for my own knowledge since I’m getting this stuff together and they had some helpful comments.

Evaluating
It is kind of a hard evaluating my own design work. I mean think overall I feel pretty good about my stuff, but I think a lot of feeling is based on how other people feel about it. I look at a lot of other people’s work (designers, illustrators, etc) from all over the place that is a lot better than mine, so I’m sort of unsure. But at the same time I seem to be getting positive feedback so it’s like “well, i guess if they think it’s good I must be doing something right.” and I trust them (if they are people I respect). I know quite a few people who I think are really good designers but are slowed down and stressed out by not believing in themselves, even when other people are telling them they are talented, which is unfortunate.

I have a lot of other things brewing in my head… but I think I’ll end on that for now to keep from getting too wordy….