Mystory
As it is Christmas Eve, and I’ll probably be up early tomorrow, I wanted a quick post for tonight. A recent thread on the IxDA discussion list was about our origins—how we came to be in the profession. This was my post:
It was during my junior year of college, in the graphic design program at WVU, that my professor took a group of us to a “multimedia” design conference held at Marshall University. Jim Ludtke presented the work he had done with The Residents on their Freak Show CD-ROM. There was a lot of discussion about Myst. Most importantly, Dan Boyarski showed the kinetic typography that had been done in his classes and talked about the program at CMU. I had been interested in computers ever since my grandfather purchased my family a Commodore Vic-20, and had thought that Graphic Design was the perfect marriage between computers and my first love, art. That conference opened my eyes to greater possibilities, and I made it my goal to go to graduate school for a Masters in Interaction Design.I spent my senior year mastering Director, using it to create my senior project and presentation. At the same time, I worked an internship developing a CD-ROM-based textbook in Authorware for a course for dental hygienists. By the time I graduated, I had been accepted into the program at CMU.
I guess my path was about as straight as can be. I’ve been extremely satisfied with my decisions.
