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The MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Admit it. From the day you peered into Steve Job’ s frameless spectacles, you’ ve ached to look more like him, as if‘ I’ m brainy and brilliant and you’ re not.’ Well, luckily this stereotype has already mapped the essential strategy to be considered hip, innovative and a tad more intelligent than the rest of the crowd, by only with their look of angst, as if the technological fate of the world lay in their not-so-moisturized hands. The Manufacturing Engineers combine mathematics, science and economics to solve technical problems facing society, while baffling maintaining a deep fascination and love for Star Trek. For them all that matters in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: things that need to be fixed and things that will need to be fixed after they’ ve had a few minutes to play with them. They like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own. Other people don’ t understand this concept; they believe that if it’ s not broke, don’ t fix it. Well, Engineers believe that if it’ s not broke, it means that it doesn’ t have enough features yet. For them, the world is a box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
The MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATOR
Master writers and communicators 3.0 for print, online, social media and multimedia – a person to grab someone’ s attention for a change nowadays. Multimedia Communicators and Creators use digital communications methods to create any variety of entertainment, graphic design, or artistic productions. You may not see them in a museum if there aren’ t any video installations and interactive works of art, or devouring hardcover paper volume of obscure French philosophy, unless it’ s on an e-book. They see beyond what’ s normal and regular, everything is a 3D virtual reality for them. This new, exciting and continually evolving field is nearly impossible to define or set bounds for it, as it is the land of creative ideas and experiments. And who is best at connecting the creative message and technology, with a strong dose of vigor, discipline and passion, than those who are trained to combine aesthetics, user-centered design and social interactivity to come up with something so spectacular?
Again, these creative categorizations are not hard and fast representations. Many of us exhibit multiple qualities in lesser or greater amounts, but these creations might be a helpful visualization for every individual to acknowledge how she / he may be perceived from outside. The FOCUS team is very interested in your thoughts with these constructions, and welcomes dialogue about these types of creativity! You can reach us through email: edvard @ startitherning. dk, or on the official Facebook page of the magazine!