Since things have changed a bit for our reading and blogging assignments, I guess I have to start reading even more articles on the printing industry. This week, I’m actually going to write about my experience in Chicago the weekend before last. All the juniors and seniors in Graphic Communications are invited to go to Chicago for GraphExpo every year. This is basically a big trade show all about printing with all the new presses and inks and new software technology. This was my third year going, and it has proved to be a very rewarding experience every time I have gone. I actually picked up many documents containing “technical writing” describing the new presses and their capabilities since I have to do a graphics project pretending to put a new wide-format inkjet press into my “company.” I even got a piece of vinyl with a tiger on it that is able to stick to any surface. Me and two other people went up to the FujiFilm guys and told them that we were from Clemson University and that we needed three copies and they did it for us! Needless to say, we got a lot of cool stuff and met a lot of interesting people.
Tuesday was Intern Employer Day for Graphic Communications majors, and I was chosen by the GC faculty as one of the co-chairs for it, so I had to be there all day, which is why I had to miss class. This is basically our “career fair” where graduating seniors can potentially find jobs and where we can find our internships since we have to have two to graduate. There was a lot of “technical writing” here as well, since people had lots of brochures and fliers on what the internships and jobs entail.
Well I didn’t get a chance to read any graphics-related articles, but I’ve definitely had my share of graphics-related technical writing over the past couple of weeks!
