This was a pretty awesome week; my boss was out of town making a visit to the factory and we got to go to the Shanghai auto show! ohh and I finally got a break from working on the website. We just recently finished the "showroom" that we have upstairs to display our products. It was all started and pretty far along before I got here so i didn't have a chance to work much on it.

Except this week they needed me to create some graphics to be temporarily on the walls of the showroom. They are going to be large foam core sections that can be propped up against the walls for a few weeks.

They will be displaying some kids furniture in the showroom for one of our clients, so I was to create graphics that would fit the theme of a kids room. I made two versions, one for the girls room and one for the boys room.

I sent them to the printing company on Friday, and I ended up having to send them 31 files!! I have never had to keep track of that many files all at once before!man I really had to stay organized and label my files very detailed so i could tell them all apart from each other. The largest the printing company can print of foam core is 250cm by 120cm, so I had to slice the wall graphics into many pieces. I should be getting them soon, and I hope I got all my measurements right and it all fits, its such a large scale project.

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I spent most of my time on this site while my boss was out of the office. :)

Week of April 13-17th

I took a nice break from working on the website this week and designed a few diagrams explaining how "The Recycled Rider" and "Solar House" features work. These products are pretty new and not in production yet, but I think they will be soon. These items are very environmentally friendly and they are supposed to be shown and Earth Day event next week. The diagrams I made are geared toward young kids, explaining how they are "green" and how they work, so the text is very simplified.

I like working on these types of projects where I don't have to worry about following guidelines. The "Cars" packaging had to be approved by Disney every step of the way as well as the Star Wars products we deal with. These two products that I worked on this week don't have any license agreements, so there is much more breathing room.

The other image that I have posted is an explanation of how the packaging stays on the product with out falling off. Apparently some clients were confused and thought the sleeve would slip right off of the product. So I made sure to also simplify the text for them as well.

April 7th - 10th

We had Monday off from work this week for some Chinese holiday. You know what is strange though? We have off for all of the Chinese holidays, plus our holidays such as Christmas. But when the Chinese workers found out that we were off on Christmas and Thanksgiving, they asked to also have the day off, but our boss said that it wasnt their culture, so they had to work. I dont think its very fair, but I dont mind having extra holidays, if only I could bring these Chinese holidays with me to the states. Well anyway......about work this 4 day week......

I am still working on the website (yay.....) but I heard that I will be getting another project on Monday. I think it has been a bit slow at work, because the website isnt really one of the top priorities around here and I sure am spending alot of time on this thing. Also two other people are helping make games for the website as well so I dont think they have much to do either. Hopefully things will pick up soon, and maybe we will get a reply from Peter Rabbit, I think that project could be fun.

I posted a few of the things that I put on the website. Most of the changes happened under "development"and "game". The other images, of the box and the name tages were a few other tasks that I did. The packaging on the box was done by someone else, and I just arranged it on the box and sent it over to someone to be approved. The nametages were for our showroom that was finished recently, and I had to create name tage to be put into plactic frames and placed infront of the products. We are expecting some "important people" to come and view the products in the showroom sometime next week, so I think we will be prepairing the showroom a bit on Monday as well.

week of March 30th through April 3rd

I was a website designer again for this week, apparently there are a lot of products that have been changed, so I still have a lot of things to update. So im not posting all of the images that I had made changes to since they are not all that interesting to look at, but you can slowly see my progress on the website week by week as I continue working on it. We also didn’t hear from “Peter Rabbit” yet, but I am hoping we follow through with the project since I think it would be really fun and a hell of a lot more exciting than designing web pages and adding links.
This kind of reminds me of when we would get some illustration projects that didn’t seem all that exciting to do, and our whole class would sit around and complain. There were always people that would say something like when they get out of school, they are never going to do a project that is lame or boring to them. I even thought that too for some projects, but that’s the way it is in the real world. Not every project is going to be fun and exciting, but we have to make an income somehow right?