It’s a great feeling, well, not at first. When you start working with a software that you haven’t touched (and since Desigo is a proprietary software owned by Siemens I had NO chance to use it ) for two years,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I should probably give more information about working on a project in the Desigo Software. There’s a part to Desigo called Desigo SMC. In SMC you set up the project that automatically includes all graphic Templates, Symbols, Libraries, etc… So,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was pretty wild, as I opened up Desigo and began looking around, it just kept coming back to me. I’d recognize this and recognize that. It’ll still take some getting used to, I’m sure there have been updates and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, thankfully I was able to fix the Zoom on my laptop and I think the interview went well. After two full years of being out of work I try not to get my hopes up, so we’ll see what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ll recall I did interview (via Zoom) for a position with Siemens last year. After dumping over 100 Graphic Designers throughout North America in February of 2021, Siemens slowly began putting together Senior Graphic Designers and Graphic Designer Supervisors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A few days ago, when I initially requested my new Desigo license, the firs response that I got from someone in the main Siemens office was, “Do you really need this?”. They were balking at my request, I guess because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I finished this comic I realized that I’ve been using Photoshop and Illustrator since the mid 1990’s. In fact, when i first started using Photoshop it had NO layers and had only FIVE undos. It was extremely non-user friendly. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Overall I guess this was a successful trip. Yes, a lot of what was presented in this training course was aimed at technicians, only a little was helpful to Graphic Designers, but I’m still glad I came. Though as I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of you not that familiar with the work and films of Monty Python (and if you’re not, shame on you) Mr. Creosote was the over-fed, over-stuffed, over-obese character portrayed by Terry Jones in the “The Autumn Years” segment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year when I was here, I was here with my former Supervisor Christian, but now I’m here solo. That’s not bad, I’ve traveled so many times on my own, it’s pretty natural for me. Also, since I’ve been here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…