Hi!

Glad to see you’re curious to know more about me! I’m Arielle Wong. I just graduated from the graphic and web design program at John Abbott College. Through this program I discovered my design style and what I like to do best. I like fun colors, animals and the font Futura (I actually disliked it at first but I kind of got attached and can even recognize it on billboards and packaging out there in the real world).

What do I do?

Well right now… graphic and web design! I know how to use the Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and more) as well as WordPress, bootstrap and mailchimp. That means I can design logos, posters, social media posts, packaging, advertisements, websites, newsletters and tons of other visuals for branding.

What have I done?

This is not a confession to crime but an enumeration of my work experience. Over the years in this program, I’ve had many opportunities to design for other people. I’ve made business cards for first year students, some posters for my brother’s dorm ( he did not pay me but will obviously make it up by doing some chores ), a poster for a writing contest and infographics to teach students and teachers about blended learning (I learned a lot too. I could go on and on about the advantages and disadvantages of an asynchronous schedule). I’ve also organized the decoration of our special GWD student room and the GWD collaboration sketchbook (passed it around for a semester and had people from the program draw and collaborate on art in it). Very fun but also challenging to try and organize something with groups of people.

Where am I going?

This is a question I’ve had a lot of trouble answering over the years. The answers changed all the time but one recurring theme is that I was always interested in working in a creative field. I wanted to be an author, comic book artist, animator, graphic designer, web designer and more. Even considered accounting because I was good at math and wanted money. But today, I think I want to work as a game designer. Video games! I love how many different types of games there are out there and how it involves so many different elements to make. There’s coding (obviously) but also illustrations, design, music, sounds, user interface, story telling…. All stuff that sounds super cool!

How am I going to get there?

My next stop would be university! Specifically Concordia in the double major computation arts and computer science. Currently working hard to get the math prerequisites but I know I’ll get there!