Graphic Presentation (extra credit) with Santanu Majumdar

Following a doctors appointment, I was able to make it back to campus just in time to catch some of this gentleman's presentation. Well, despite rushing back to campus in an effort to gain extra credit, something must be said for the level of interest I held watching the different slides of the power point, all the while to the tone of an interesting narrator.

He spoke on how he became a graphic designer through a bunch of schooling in India and because he aspired to achieve higher levels of classwork, they made him learn English, something he noted that he hated very much in the beginning. However, at this point has benefited him greatly in the fact that he has extended his communication skills rather than resisting change. Anything from store design, to street and subways signs, all the way to Maya and game/interactive design; he has done it all and the great part is he tried to issue the point that anyone is capable of these things. Of course, in his shadow the chances of such seem low, though that was not the intention.

As far as design cues, I learned somethings in regard to how things should be placed and oriented for maximum appeal and durability to the target audience. For instance, one design that he conjured dealt with a door with vertical pencils as the doorhandles. Perhaps on a normal basis that would be easy, but he explained that the wood on the one end would be suscpetible to rotting if the eraser side did not face up and that you write with a pencil oriented lead towards the paper. Things like that made the presentation an a success and as my eyes wandered around the room, generally everyone was interested.