Brett Franklin's profile answers

Creative, Rewarding and Challenging

I am a designer and artist. I want to find a job that affords me my individuality and respects my efforts at creating communicative and effect work.

Myspace all the way. Facebook is pretty interesting but it looks like it will end up being a huge .NET mess.

Freedom to create. Trust to deliver.

Originality in approach.
Successful communication of the message.
Complete satisfaction of the final product.

In one word: Creativity. We are all creative in our own necessary ways. Creativity is required to get through life.

I started our as an idealistic Art Student. I wanted to WOW the world with my photographs, designs and sculptural masterpieces. I soon started to realize that I had to actually make a living so I set out to adapt my knowledge of Art and Design and the discipline thereof toward Web Design and Development. Having always been completely enthralled with Technology, the Internet presented itself as a limitless frontier, a never ending canvas, so to speak.

I found myself taking a job as a Web Developer when I barely knew how to code HTML, let alone CSS. I managed to get up to speed in no time and became quite adept at this trade.

It's been almost 10 years now and I continue to learn, live and love every minute and every challenge put before me....

Study hard. Learn your fundamentals and get to know your technology. Brush up on your people skills and learn how to translate your concepts and ideas in layman's terms because clients don't speak Technobabble. Most importantly, do what you do because you love it and for the sake of doing it above all else....

I was most influenced by my former college Art Photography professor, Matt Kidder. Matt was a dynamic artist and inspirational teacher - one who saw things from multiple perspectives. He showed me how to look at the problem an idea presents from all angles in order to find a successful solution which, ultimately, resulted in successful art and design work....

Working as a Creative Director on a New Media design and development team where I could interface my ranging experience as both a designer and a developer to produce dynamic, creative and innovative project solutions.