#creativetype

The work I do at Xavier is really diverse, but the Digital Media and Design program really prepared me for that. Students in DMD are able, and really are expected, to take a wide variety of design classes, from photography and video making to typography and web design. This gave me a solid and wide base of knowledge that I am applying to this position. So when my boss comes to me and says "Hey Lucas, do you have any experience editing video?" or "Do you know anything about coding?" I am able to answer YES with confidence.

One assignment that I think of often came from Mia Cinelli's Typography class. She had us find a print piece in the wild somewhere that we thought had poor typography, and then recreate the piece to fix these issues. This process of dissecting a design's weak points and building it back up from there is something I try to apply every time I create a new draft of my work.

My Theatre degree is also helping out daily! Not only in directly applicable skills (a sizable chunk of my practical video editing experience comes from my time and classwork in Projection Design) but in more subtle ways as well. A lot of the work I do boils down to telling a story effectively, and storytelling was what my time in the Theatre department was all about. 

Lucas has a word of advice for current students: