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Profs into people, an interview with Jay Hill
by Patricia Donahue
Exchange Staff
For this weeks issue of The Exchange, I got the chance to sit down with one of the Graphic Design departments Professors, Jay Hill.
PD: Were is your hometown/ where did you grow up?
JH: I was born and raised in Boise, Idaho.
PD: Where did you attend college?
JH: I first attended Ricks College for my first two years which is now better known as Brigham Young University-Idaho. The name of the college was switched a little after the year 2001. After Rick's I then went on to The University of Utah in Salt Lake City. There I earned my BA as well as my MA in Graphic Design. There was however, a six year gap from when I first graduated with my BA. After graduating I got married to my wife and while working to earn my MA we were both working to pay our other expenses.
PD: What were your goals and ambitions after graduating college?
JH: I was really focused on getting a job in an Advertising
Agency. After about 6 or 7 months I got an offer from an agency that I
had previously interned with. It was a great start, being able to work
one on one with in the design aspect of things. After awhile I
received a great offer from Blain Olsen White Gurr Advertising where I
stayed for about a year a a half.
PD: What is your title here at Franklin Pierce and how many years have you
bee teaching here?
JH: I am the assistant professor of Graphic Communications where I have been teaching for just about three years now.
PD: What classes do you mainly teach?
JH: I teach IC 101, design I & II, graphic production, the capstone and internship series. This semester while Professor Dierck's is in Vienna, I am also teaching book design.
PD: What do you enjoy doing outside of teaching at Franklin Pierce?
JH: I love to make art...all kinds of art. I really enjoy making hand-made books, and I also like working with vinyl's. if I'm not working with art you can find me outside hiking, and paintballing with my children. I have three boys and a little girl. I have also had a long time interest in fixing up old American cars as well as VW's.
PD: What would you say is your favorite travel spot?
JH: Jackson Hole, Wyoming. My wife and I went there for our honeymoon, one because it wasn't to expensive but also because it was far away enough to call it a vacation and close enough to home to be able to go back there again.
PD: When growing up did you have any role models or hero's?
JH: I really looked up to my father. My father passed in a boating accident and after that my grandfather (my moms father) came in and really acted as a father figure. He taught me and my brothers a lot and I am very grateful for that. I also looked up to my boy scout leaders.
PD: Who is your favorite artist?
JH: This is hard because there have been so many different artists that have influenced me over the years. I like many other people go through phases as we get get older. If you were to ask me a couple years ago I would have to say photographer William Eggleston. Right now I'm very interested in the works of Martin Venezky who is a Graphic Designer.
PD: If you could trade places with any one person in the world who would it be and why?
JH: At this moment in my life I am extremely happy and I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone, not anyone in the world.
PD: What quote do you live your life by?
JH: Quote is one by Louis L'Amour. Author of cowboy stories.
“Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.”
~Louis L'Amour
PD: What advice do you have for the graduating class of 2008?
JH: Be patient. Work hard. Be willing to make sacrifices.
Make sure you know that when you leave here, you will not have the life your
parents have, you must work to fulfill your dreams. Have good work
ethic, and most of all have integrity.
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