I never expected that I would end up in the middle of a forest 100 miles from home, with people I only became acquainted with in the past few hours, but alas, here I was; hiking with 20-some odd kids somewhere in Connecticut on my school’s freshman orientation trip. Around me were people from towns that I had never heard of, despite them living in the same county as I did. They also all had different aspects of their lives...

My family used to have an old, slow, box-shaped Dell computer that ran Windows XP. The fateful day finally came when we finally had to say goodbye, and my parents and I ventured out to Best Buy to buy a new, shiny desktop. As we were walking around the store, my eyes landed on a box with a completely white, shadowless woman with minimal features on it. The front read “Adobe Photoshop CS6” and nothing else. The lack of emotion...

As cliche as it may sound, my life has revolved around art for many years now. It has been both a hobby and a passion, and I am ready to make a career out of it. Though graphic design has only been part of my life for about five years, it is the branch of art that I want to focus on. The ability of graphic designers to take a client’s idea and transform it into something like a...