For those of you caught up in the whirlwind of work and/or school, don’t forget this Sunday, May 12, is Mother’s Day. As grateful offspring nationwide reach for their phones to order beautiful bouquets for their moms, I recently reached ...

An ongoing aspiration of mine that began at the start of this school year is to establish an American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) student group at Seattle University and build the student design community. This “project” has humbly taught me several lessons, but perhaps the most important was how much easier and worthwhile it ...

Today marks the start of week six, which means I am at the half-way point of my internship and I only have five weeks left until graduation and the inevitable plunge into the pool of recent graduates looking for work.  ...

To Frause and friends:

This week, Frause’s Seattle interns were given a special challenge: to co-produce a video blog post. Steffanie Mortera and I brainstormed several ideas before narrowing down our list and making a final selection. We set out to satisfy our curiosity surrounding what Frause employees think the company represents by asking ...

Public relations professionals interact with clients and co-workers every day, so it’s important they understand how to build and maintain healthy relationships to ensure a successful work environment. To get a few tips on how best to do this, I ...

Often one of the most difficult things for me is to manage my time wisely. Juggling school and work puts a heavy burden on time management and prioritizing the workload. If you don’t already have your own personal system down, ...

Being an intern is a valuable and rewarding experience, but balancing work, school and a personal life is more difficult than you think. Part of being an intern is learning to manage your time and prioritize your work so everything ...

In the last two years I spent time exploring and researching resume design while applying for internship positions. Since high school it’s been drilled into my head that great resumes look like the templates Microsoft Word gives: black text, left aligned, bullet points, etc.

Once I got to college and started majoring in design, it ...

This past summer I had the opportunity to intern at a local news station back home in Hawaii. Part of my internship included shadowing reporters as they chased stories across the island and observing as they interviewed people relevant to what was happening that day. Some events were more interesting than others, but without a ...