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In the past couple of classes we had guest speakers come in and speak to us about their experience in Design and what it's like going through school and the process finding a job and also what kind of jobs are available for designers. I found this really neat as they showed us examples of their work, not only from school, but also what they're working on now. It's actually really encouraging to me to see that there is still work for designers (since it's such a broad field) even in this economy. I really liked hearing about the company designed by the students - Cobago. It just shows that even if you can't find work, you can make work. I think just hearing first-hand from past students that it is a good field to be in is really encouraging, knowing that it isn't impossible, and that it's even possible to have a job after graduation.

We have also watched a couple videos in the past couple weeks, one being "RiP: A Remixer's Manifesto". This was very interesting to see, and how copyright laws have been used and abused by companies such as Disney to stop the reproduction of any of their works, or even collaborations or renditions of their works. One example was the preschool that was sued for having non-copyrighted "Mickey Mouse" paintings up. I think it is ridiculous that a day care would be sued for copyright infringement for just painting Disney characters on the walls. I also found it intriguing the process musicians such as Girl Talk have gone through to produce music. I think it's pretty unfair and just shows how greedy corporations and people are in this day and age.