We’re on the hunt for a rad Graphic Design Intern.

As you read this, a lone rolley chair sits at an empty desk, silently weeping your name. Well, right now its silently weeping “Graphic Design Intern…”, but it’s really sad nonetheless. Don’t let that poor chair be cold for much longer, it’ll make you a bad person.

If you are obsessed with ideas, details and Pantone, read on!

Our Designers:

• Create and design pieces for any medium
• Choose appropriate typographic elements for each project
• Speak up in brainstorming sessions
• Communicate with anyone and everyone in the team
• Stay on top of timing and deadlines
• Offer fresh and innovative solutions clients
• Work on in-house and client projects

You Should:

• Know your way around current industry programs like Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
• Be up-to-date on current and emerging graphic trends
• Have awesome communication skills
• Be able to work both in teams and independently

* Ability to operate an intense coffee maker is a total bonus.

In return for your mad skills, you will gain valuable career experience, create some awesome work and drink as much coffee as you want. Sold? Send your resume and portfolio over to info@derooted.com.

It’s been about a month already since I started internship at derooted. In this month there was this one time I forgot to bring my pen tablet. Working with the trackpad on MacBook irritated me all day. (Although I love MacBook’s multi fingers trackpad feature) Whether you’re professional graphic designer or someone who just love doing something arty on your computer, a pen tablet is the best tool to make your life much easier.

When I first got my pen tablet, I wasn’t interested in graphic design or computer-related illustrations. I did a lot of analog drawings on paper. I didn’t find any use for the tablet. I remember when I first tested out the tablet from pure boredom, I realized how easy it was to use with computer games because I scored much higher with the pen tablet than the mouse (especially the kind of shooting game that require you to aim and shoot at target).

Now as a graphic design student, my pen tablet is a necessary tool when I work on projects. I think to me, the advantages of the tablet can be summarized into three distinct points:

1. First, the pen tablet is especially helpful when you do precise photo retouching and illustrations. Once you get use to drawing in pen, drawing without it is like the drawing with your non-dominant hand, your feet, or with a pen in your mouth. I feel handicapped without out it right by me when I work. It also gets less tired after I work due to the natural way you hold a pen as opposed to a mouse while you work.
2. Using pen tablet saves a lot more time and its more efficient ways. I work much faster with the tablet. Absolute positioning feature of the pen tablet gives me a 1:1 representation of the screen to that tablets so I can move the cursor to anywhere on the screen instantly and this is much faster than moving and dragging my mouse on my desk. I dislike the mouse in my school lab because their wire is super short that I need to lift up and reposition the mouse every time I try to move. But the tablet solves this problem since I can reach anywhere on the screen within the size of the tablet. In this case I think the size of the tablet and the screen is important. I’m using Wacom Intuos3 6”x8”Pen Tablet with my 17inch MacBook Pro. I love this size since this is not too big to carry around and not too small for using with either mouse or pen. According to my friend who is using 9”x12”tablet with 17inch MacBook Pro, using the bigger tablet in Final Cut is a pain in the rear since it’s not precise enough to anchor the frames. Bigger is not necessarily better unless you want to do illustrations without zoom in to details always. I prefer using my smaller tablet to minimize my arm motion so I can save a lot more time.
3. The best thing about doing illustration on any computer using the pen tablet is that there is always an option where I can erase, rewrite and fix as much as I want without damaging my original copy. However, the only disadvantage of the pen tablet is that, because I can rewrite as much as I want, I can’t stop keep retouching same file. Even if I am satisfied with the illustration that I do, I may feel inclined to reedit, and so the editing process never ends.

Now there are a lot more variations in pen tablet. There are Bluetooth variations which will add to the portability of the tablets and will extend the range of usages and application of the devices too. The wireless device provides you complete freedom in controlling the screen from afar. There is also LED Backlight Monitor with Pen Tablet Technology which allows you to work directly on the screen with natural hand-eye coordination. If you don’t have pen tablet yet, why not? The pen tablet is definitely the tool that will make your life much easier.

By: Ayaka Sano
http://derooted.com

Simon and I have made a lot of progress with our installation and exhibit. The deadline is looming and we’ve been putting some long hours to develop our presentation and concept. The most time consuming part so far has been building the optometry installation.

To the beat of some Latin-American rock and folk music we have constructed a small cardboard box, fully recyclable, and completely modular which enables us to read the viewers eyes to re-project them onto our piece.

Here are some images of our little box under development.

Next time we’ll be talking about our second piece as promised. This one involves photography, video, and fiducials. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you all interacting with our exhibit!

by Javier Lovera

This post also found on the Applied Arts Blog as well as the Hermann & Audrey Blog.

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