Personal Statement

My name is Ethan Kurylo and I am currently at Canterbury College studying Graphic Design Level 3 National Diploma. At the moment I an achieving a Merit grade on my course and hoping to achieve distinction or high merit.
Throughout my education I have been interested in sports. Throughout year 7 to year 9, it was compulsory to learn either French or Spanish as a language for SATs that will be sort of useful in Spanish spoken countries. I have also achieved knowledge on my IT skills as for my course in Graphic Design I frequently use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create posters, page layouts, stamps, cards and post cards. For my personal achievement while on this course is coming runner up in a Paperchase competition where we had to design a Christmas card for them to use in their shops to be sold worldwide.
When I was in secondary0 school, I studied at Chaucer Technology School and I went off to do work experience with a computer graphic design company where they showed me how to design posters on Illustrator and also how to create a 3D image of buildings and the sky they design for game companies. I gained the knowledge of how to create different poster design to fit different sizes and to print large sizes without distorting. Also that to create a 3D world takes hours of time and is very complicated.
In graphic design, I enjoy working on creating posters on the Macs for different style of art form. For example, my favourite art form I like doing a poster for is either a retro poster as they have very curved lines and bright colours, with a lot of natural things drawn in. I also like doing a Propaganda poster in the style of Shepherd Fairey as he uses dark colours it and it gets the message across about war and democracy.
My personal experiences that led me to Graphic Design was my drawing skill and how it was easy for me to pick things up on the Mac to create things on programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I also have always been fascinated in the design aspect of how magazine have been created and how they do set up to capture images for their column.
My plan for the end of this college year is to get a full time job. During these last 3 years at college I feel I have gathered enough information, skills and confidence to move on and get started with my life. I’m still unsure of what I want to do later on in my life but for now my goal is to get a full time job, secure enough money and move out with my other half. Ideally in the future I would like a job in the graphic design industry or gaming design industry but for the time being while I’m young I would like to focus on getting my life started.