Matt Ginsberg

On www.mattginsberg.net, you will find my portfolio (would you like a quote?), as well as a blog that will discuss my thought process behind designing. I will give the opportunity for other designers, or the general public, to comment on my thoughts. When a new project starts, it will be added to the right side and I will post blogs about that project.

Besides working a full time job, and going to school full time, I still find time to design logo, print, and web design. The majority of my work will include, logo design, web design, print design, custom business cards, custom letterheads, html email signatures, marketing material (pens, CDs, posters) etc. It doesn’t matter if your company is just starting or has been in business for years, I want to talk to you about the opportunity to expand it. Why don’t you take a look at my portfolio?

I am 26 years old studying Business Administration (Majoring in Marketing) at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio. I may not be majoring in Graphic Design, but my ability, knowledge, and background does not stop me from performing.

My Story

At the tender age of 13 [I am 26 now] I was introduced to the web design world. I was sitting in a class, in my high school, when one of my classmates mentioned to me he knew a way to make websites. Back then I didn’t know anything about Adobe products. I bet many of you have probably heard of this great, wonderful, easy to use, WYSIWYG program. AOL Press (chuckles). If you really think about it, I am talking about when Windows 9x was alive and kicking. I remember my very first website. It involved a straight forward up and down layout. On each side were two generated cartoon pictures that AOL provided. The simple text read, “Welcome to my very first website!” That was it. I was done. With two cartoon pictures and six (6) words, I created my very first website. That website made it possible for me to be where I am today. So thank you AOL and your terrible clipart! After I created that, I felt like I won a huge sports event. No one could stop me. I thought it was amazing that you could create something and put it on the internet so the whole world could see it. From there on out, I was hooked.

My second website included a Top Ten (10) list about Jay Leno, a plug for one of my brothers friends who was a DJ, and a little bio about me. How great it was.

After a few websites, I decided to branch off to a nice graphical interface (image map). At the age of 15 I started a job as being a paintball referee. Being that young and working in the atmosphere of paintball, I wanted to design a website around it. I used AOL Press and started to design it with using frames. Boy, I thought that was hard. The website included several links; gear, supplies, photos, etc. With a few custom splat icons that I created using Paint and a few other images on the web, my first image map was completed.

A few years went by and I didn’t do much with graphic or web design until I became a senior. In the back of my mind, I was going to college to be a graphic designer. My classes as a senior included CAD and a very, very easy photography/design class.

CAD was not fun at all; it was ridiculously hard for me to comprehend the code that was needed to draw anything (don’t worry, I passed the class). While still in the CAD class, one of my classmates and I wanted to start our own “business” if you will. We had plans to customizing, building and putting together computers. We also wanted to custom design images. Our “company” was called Web Techniques. It didn’t last more than 3 months. However, I took charge and created our website in Macromedia Flash 4. It was then when I started to work with Flash.

The design class was fun. We used Photoshop 3.x and I was far superior in the program compared to my classmates. I never used Photoshop before but I understood what everything meant because of a few programs my parents had purchased along the way. After the teacher saw what I could do, she invited me to a conference to showcase a simple design. My design was a hand holding a crystal ball. The tag line read, ‘Dream It’. I never went to the conference, but my work did. Till this day I wasn’t told what was said about it. After I graduated from high school, I went to college to get a degree in arts.

All of the courses I took that were graphic design related, taught me a lot about typography and the way to lay things out on paper to make them look even nicer. After my first year in college my mother had passed away and that stopped me in my tracks. I do not have any of my work from college, unfortunately, because when I moved, my work went in the garbage. Why? Because I had no intention of showcasing my work ever – at that point, I was done with graphic design.

About a year and a half ago (roughly the middle of 2007), I had a carpet cleaner come to my apartment to clean my carpet and my couch. I was working on one of my old myspace layouts. He noticed I was designing something and starting to talk to me about making him a website. That is when All Clean was born. That was also when I got back into graphic design.

Networking

• Facebook
• Twitter

Education

I am currently studying Business Administration at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio.

I received an associate’s degree in Arts at Brookdale Community College (Communication Media.)

Some of the subjects studied in Brookdale were:Designing/Developing Web Sites, Typography I, Drawing I, Typography II, 2-D Design, Illustration, Computer Literacy, Graphic Design Production, Graphic Design Techniques, Desktop Publishing I, CAD, Basic Design, 3-D Modeling with CAD.

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