Learning From Scratch

Hello everyone my name is Andrew Russo and I aspire to become a Graphic Designer. I decided to change my major last year from Marketing to Graphic Design last year because I realized my passion lies within Art. I am in my third year of college, but I am behind in school partly due to my change in career focus, but I also  participated in an internship through the Disney College Program during the spring semester of 2011. When coming back to Central Michigan University this year I had to make the decision of pursuing my marketing degree or make a drastic change by pursuing graphic design.

Ultimately I decided, with the help of family and friends, to put aside marketing and pursue what I knew I would really enjoy. The reason why I knew graphic design would be the perfect degree to acquire was because I had always loved art, I spend the majority of my free time on the computer, editing pictures, creating advertisements on ebay, learning a little bit of code and embedding files, and creating my own website my senior year of high school.

Not only do I plan to work for a company someday, but I plan to create and manage my own social network. As far-fetched of an idea as it is right now, I am aspiring to learn all of the necessary tools in creating my own unique social network. I have had the basic fundamentals of it written out and drawn up since 2009, but I had brushed it off to the side for the past couple years because I had no idea where to start. Now that I am pursuing a degree that will help me with this in the long run I have found my motivation once again.  I will have the basic skills necessary to begin the project once again. I will use tutorials from Youtube.com, other webpages to learn to create it, and if you have any supportive tips then I would greatly appreciate it as well.

As for school, I am working on building a portfolio to get into the Graphic Design Program through Central Michigan University. They only select a limited number of applicants into the program, so I am in great need of assistance on what kind of work I should put together for my portfolio. I am currently in the basic art classes, but intend to start posting my work onto my blog for all of you to see. Next semester I will finally be in Intro to Graphic Design so I am very excited to show all of you my work progress throughout the semester. I will try to post videos and tips as I pursue my journey to becoming a Graphic Designer.