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Painting Exibition is open until August 1, 2007

A Place to Ponder
39 Putnum Avenue
Hamden, CT
Call for hours: 203.946.0061

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Anne Kubitsky, Paier College of Art student picture book, "Sophies Catch" is a finalist for the Tassey Walder Award of the Shoreline Alliance of the Arts. Competition will run at 7pm on May 23rd at the Branford Public Library.

James Jasiokowski, Paier College of Art Graduate '06 in Illustration won an award at this year's Student Competition of the Society of Illustrators in New York City.

Angela Accetta and Daniel Yagmin, Paier College of Art Graduate '06 in Illustration will soon to be having their Children's Books published.

Past Paier College of Art student Rolandas Kiaulevicius is also making a splash with his newly published Children's Book, "Zoolidays".

Becky Farina an Interior Design Junior at Paier College of Art received first place at the 2007 National Kitchen and Bath Association's Southern New England Kitchen Design Competition. Sophomore Paier College of Art Interior Design student Jessica Broderick followed with second place. at Paier College of Art Junior Tad Elloitt received an Honorable Mention.
Their at Paier College of Art professor was Drew Cappella

Group of Paier College of Art Illustration and Photography Students will be working with Vladimir Shpitalnik for the installation for the 2007 Gala for the Long Wharf Theater. On June 8th there will be over 500 people interacting with this work. For more information: www.longwharf.org

Works of Kristen Pasiuk '08 on display until mid March 2007 Essex Meadow Gallery 30 Bokum Road Essex, CT 06426       Oil Painting by Kristen Pasiuk ©2006

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Look for Doll Barnes '03
to appear to on HGTV in 2007
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From College to Career

Adam Pacio, a creative employment representative from Creativenet gave a highly informative presentation at the Paier College Auditorium on Tuesday, November 7th.
Mr. Pacio’s PowerPoint presentation provided the student audience with up to date job search protocol and stratagem for job placement in Connecticut as well as in the New York City market. He emphasized the importance of always preparing a 3-5 minute summary of your work experience; focus on recent and relevant material, and with why you may have left your last job. Then he went into detail on what you can expect as salaries in entry-level jobs in graphic design. He pointed out the importance of gaining skills in using Flash.  Adam stated, “Salary expectations are directly proportional to the quality of your portfolio. If at first you don’t land the job, go back and fix your portfolio.” By the way he enjoys working with the pool of talented graduated from Paier. He has had great success in both placing Paier graduates and with the client’s overall satisfaction of the highly talent graduates with strong creative skills. Designers as well as Artist are hired on their style and fired on their attitude.

Your Portfolio should be medium size, professional grade, between 15–20 pieces that are indicative of your craftsmanship. Also it is a good idea to have PDF format as well, in the neighborhood of 5MB. In presenting your book: give yourself 15–20 minutes of rehearsal of your presentation. Provide an overview of each piece; state your involvement, what were your ideas and focus should remain on the positive side. Be ready to answer questions on details if asked and be honest. Organize your book with the best pieces in the front and back for maximum impact, keeping weaker pieces in the middle of your portfolio. Show a range of your abilities and show your creative process.

Resumes are viewed quickly, generally just a two second scan. You do not need to include references. Show your last education; use bullets to speed up the viewing. List only the computer skills of the type of work you are looking for. Your skills will show up in your portfolio. Resumes and sample get the first interview, be sure to bring extra resumes along and to leave behind samples of you work. Your portfolio the second interview and lands the job. Do not talk about salary and benefit right away, when asked about salary range, respond with, ‘I’m open to consider any fair offer. Always take 24 hours to consider any offer. Prepare a good closing question and have a 3-5 minute summary ready upon the conclusion of the interview.

The kinds of jobs in graphic design in the area are in Promotional, Business to Business, Corporate, Consumer Packaging, Environmental, Direct Mail, Business to Consumer, and Branding. Research the company your having an interview before you interview.

Tips for job interview are more common sense issues, which are often overlooked.  Bathe, don’t arrive before 15 minute of your interview, if you are running late, call early, don’t pile on perfume or cologne, dress professional, and use breath mints. Leave the interview with a good firm handshake; always send a follow up thank you note to the interviewer via US Mail.

Paier College of Art is committed to providing students and alumni with the most current and revenant information on job searches and is extremely grateful for the presentation made by Adam Pacio of Creativenet. Adam will be returning to Paier to look at student portfolios later this month. Adam Pacio can be reached at 203.354-2677. apcreavitenet@optonline.net

SEYMOUR SCHACTER
NATIONAL AWARD WINNING ILLUSTRATOR
VISITS PAIER COLLEGE

March 15, 2006

It was an honor and treat to have Mr. Seymour Schacter speak with our students and alumni recently. He covered topics relating to the advertising industry, what it takes to be successful, and how to get that first big break, as well as some illustration tips and techniques.

Mr. Schacter has quite an interesting background. For the last five years he has been using Adobe Photoshop, at least 90% of his current workload is done with Photoshop.

But before this, he did his assignments with more traditional methods. He has had 22 years of experience in this business and he hires artists to work for him. Carl Michaud '94 (Paier graduate) and well as Penney Allen-DellaValle '98 to name a few.

Mr. Schacter attended Business College instead of an art school because his parents refused to pay his tuition if he went to an art school. He manages to make a success of Business College and earns a good job in the business world upon graduation. He stressed at this point that he disliked the business life but he "still put his whole heart and sole into it". It was this positive attitude that he stressed throughout the assembly.

After 2 years in the business world, he quit his job and started working in an art supply store. This was something that he had to do for himself as he loved art and wanted to get started in the field somehow. Again, he did his very best and applied himself and in one month, doubled the stores sales. After this, he was promoted to a regional sales position for the art store chain. Somewhere during this time, he attended a commercial art class with a lady named Hazel Spector. Ms. Spector was so impressed with his talent level and drive that she invites Seymour to interview with her at her office. It turns out that Ms. Spector was a Partner at (SSC&B), a large ad agency in New York City. She offered him the opportunity to story board a TV Commercial. Seymour welcomed the challenge and quickly educated himself to the nature and intent of storyboard production.   To make a long story short, Seymour worked his tail off to give her the best storyboard he could achieve, adding more visual information related to the theme than assigned.   Ms. Spector was impressed with his work paying Seymour much more than he anticipated. Seymour quits his day job as his storyboard career snowballs.

After about a month, he answers an ad for a storyboard illustrator he found in the New York Times. It was for the largest storyboard studio in NYC. He applied and was hired on the spot. He worked in this studio, called "Continuity" for 11 years.

Continuity has a large staff of artists and during his time here he does a multitude of comps for all sorts of well-known clients. At length, he gets a call from an art studio specializing in finishes. (Some of which started at $25,000 apiece). This begins his career of finished advertising illustrations. This was 11 years ago and he has worked with all sorts of clients including, M & M's, Goldfish, Post Cereals, Kool Aid, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Ragu, Dannon Yogurt, Campbell Soups, Shick Razor, Kraft, Skippy Peanut Butter, etc.

His work is used on varied venues including package illustrations, labels of all kinds, poster, direct mail, etc.

After giving us a little bit about his background, Mr. Schacter did a demo for us.

He rendered an eye and a tomato on Photoshop, which showed how Photoshop proceeds in layers.

After the rendering he spoke to the assembly and gave them some very good advice. He told them keep portfolios updated, keep quality, don't rely on old work, be relevant and most importantly do everything to the best of your ability.

He then proceeded to tell them about Kim Harris who works for Creative Link, (203) 854-LINK(5465). She is available to help place people. He also told us that he needed help in his studio, he does 2-3 illustrations per week, but has 22 illustration jobs facing him next week. Has to turn down work - he needs help and he feels that it would be a good opportunity for students who are able with Photoshop.

If you are interested in possibly working with Mr. Schacter, please send your name, phone number and E-mail address to Seymour@seymourschacter.com . Send 2 or 3 examples of your best work and if a job comes in and he thinks you could handle it, he will contact you.

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Frank LoGiudice '06
Get's His Work Out

Photography Student Frank LoGiudice of Middletown has a photo in the ASMP BULLETIN. LoGiudice is a student member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the photo can be found in ASMP Student Portfolio Section. LoGiudice recently joined the ASMP last November 2005. He is a student at the Paier College of Art in Hamden. The photo was taken of a boy participating in the Fife & Drum Corp., Muster, in Westbrook.  This photo was used for a class assignment in Frank McAuliffe’s Photo Science class at the Paier College of Art, Inc. during the Fall 2005 Semester. The photo will eventually be on ASMP’s website . LoGiudice serves as the publicity director and photographer for the Greater Middletown Special Olympics and the Middletown Penguin Plunge Committee.

Frank LoGiudice ‘06, a photography student at the Paier College of Art currently has two photo exhibits in Middletown. The first photo exhibit is at the Russell Library located at 123 Broad Street. The photos are on display on the “Community Wall of Honor,” 2nd Floor near Meeting Room 2. The photo display includes 3 photos of the Greater Middletown Special Olympics, “Thundering All Stars.” Basketball Team, was photographed at the Special Olympics Connecticut, “March Madness,” Basketball Tournament in Waterbury, Holy Cross High School, and Saint Margaret McTernan’s School in March 2005. These exhibits continue to be on display from June  — December 2005.  The hours for the Russell Library are Monday—Thursdays 9 am – 8:30 pm, Fridays 12 – 6 pm, Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm, and Sundays 2 pm – 5 pm. 

The second photo exhibit is located at the Middletown Sports Hall of Fame, 58 Bernie O’Rourke Drive, near Palmer Field Stadium in Middletown. It includes three photos of the Greater Middletown Special Olympics Athletes that will be added to the permanent collection in the Middletown Sports Hall of Fame. Frank fells strongly in the idea of preserving an accurate portrayal history as a reoccurring theme too much of his photography. Frank is honored to donate the three photos to the Middletown Sports Hall of Fame, so that the Greater Middletown Athletes will forever have their place in the sports history of Middletown. LoGiudice serves as the Publicity Director for the Greater Middletown Special Olympics.  Hours:  Mondays — Fridays 9 am – 12 pm, also opened in the evenings during special events at Palmer Field Stadium. There is no admission fee, but donations are accepted. 

Photo Description:  Greater Middletown Special Olympics Athlete Birt Hall of Middletown handles the ball at the Special Olympics Connecticut “March Madness” Basketball Tournament in Waterbury. This photo plus two others are on display at the Russell Library’s “Community Wall Of Honor.”

– Year 2006 yearbook will be on sale soon
at the bookstore