New Media Landscape
Lionel Chin is the co-founder of Ripplewerkz, which is an all in one design house which offers high quality Web, Blog, Print and Corporate ID development. Boasting an impressive portfolio of projects such as Nuffnang, Prominent bloggers/Celebrities (eg. Allan Wu (The Amazing Race Asia), Wong Lilin (Mediacorp), Nico Chua (FM 933 DJ), Lunch Actually, Airtrade and The Eurasian Association (Singapore) etc, the name Lionel Chin certainly resonates in the digital industry.
With him sharing his expertise, experience in web development and the use of new media tools in the industry will help to inspire your learning journey and relate better to the subject itself from the commercial point of view.
5 key points-
1. Being careful with charging people, if its early in the career , it would be wise doing the work for free, as the work can be added into the portfolio which is very important in this industry.
2. Being prepared to be turned down, as you work may not be favorable to the client’s eye but do not feel discouraged after being turn down, just keep working harder and you will be able to excel.
3.Using various social media to promote oneself.
4. Putting together a good portfolio to showcase your best works .’
5.Knowing the the outside world is much more competitive and vicious then the schooling world.
3 Things that inspired me -
1. Being a web designer can be really profitable and fun at the same time.
2. The speaker looks very young but he is already on his way to a bright future.
3. At such a young age he has met or worked with so many celebrities.
Do you think its useful to have a guest speaker to share their expertise, experience and ” Tips & Tricks” of the trade ?
Yes, i think it is extremely useful and effective as unlike lecturers these guest speaker are appealing to us on a professional level and an up-to-date experience. Not that our lecturers are not good but having guest speaker backs up what the lecturers have been trying to explaining to the students.
