New Media Landscape
Lionel Chin is the co-founder of Ripplewerkz, which is an all in one design house which offers high quality Web, Blog, Print and Corporate ID development. Boasting an impressive portfolio of projects such as Nuffnang, Prominent bloggers/Celebrities (eg. Allan Wu (The Amazing Race Asia), Wong Lilin (Mediacorp), Nico Chua (FM 933 DJ), Lunch Actually, Airtrade and The Eurasian Association (Singapore) etc, the name Lionel Chin certainly resonates in the digital industry.
5 key points the Speaker had mentioned during his presentation.
- Having a good portfolio is important to show the client your ability and what you are capable of.
- Twitter as a new media tool to promote business.
- Start as a freelancer first and build up the portfolio.
- Understand that the reality of the outside world in the working society is much more challenging compared to now.
- Understand the client’s needs.
3 things that has inspired you from this lecture.
- The websites that he designed inspired me to become a web designer to design webpages for others in future.
- The amount of money he earn inspired me.
- The speaker is so young yet he has his own company already.
Do you think its useful to have a guest speaker to share their expertise, experience and “Tips & Tricks” of the trade? (Explain)
Yes. It is useful as it’s a great way to bring up-to-the-minute expertise to a cohort-based course. Also, it enables the guest speaker to interact with the students. Students get to ask questions and they get their answer immediately. Through this lecture, we have learn about the problems that we will face and how he handled them one by one. This helps to get us ready to be in the working society and easily adapt to the new unfamiliar environment in future.
