Professional Topics- Web Design

Anya Hamman Art Director at Publicis  Sheridan Web Design Alumna 2016-2017 anyahammandesigns@gmail.com http://www.anyahamman.com Publicis      Anya Hamman is an art director at a marketing agency called Publicis Hawkeye. Publicis works with many different clients which provide designers with a new project to handle each day. Hamman's team focuses on the email aspect of the designs. Many of her clients include Citi, Red Lobster, Canada Post, and Walmart.      Working in a big company such as Publicis allows workers to easily transfer to a specific sector in that company, in other words, lots of opportunities with different clients arise. One would have to constantly be on their feet, handling a lot of ideas, and overall managing one's time. What is interesting about her work is that she has to deal with a variety of data, as well as thinking about the audience that the brand is speaking too. When marketing certain products for cli...

Amy Aschabar Associate Director of Marketing and Creative at Cycura Inc. Sheridan Web Design Alumna 2016-2017 aeaschaber@gmail.com "In-House Designer?"      Amy Aschabar presented herself as the "in-house designer." The definition of an "in-house designer" is one who exclusively works for one business alone. Instead of being in a design or advertising agency working on different projects, she devotes herself to one company. In regards to this, one would have to have similar values and be very committed to their line of work. Through her presentation, she provides the negative and positive aspects of being an "in-house designer."      One may think of feeling very limited in terms of getting enough portfolio pieces. However, she states that when starting a project, you are in complete control. In other words, one has complete ownership of a big project, starting off from its process to completion versus an app one ...