Episode
Loving the Arts and Discovering What a Person Can Do with It
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- The Career Guy
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- Dec 28, 2023
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- 3598
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Summary
This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Henry Yiu. Henry is the principal and creative director at “States of Matter” a marketing firm in Seattle, Washington. This episode continues where Henry is attending Cornish College where he talks about working on an associate degree in engineering. There is a good discussion on his transition from Purdue University to Cornish College and some good insights and surprises. More importantly, he talks about taking art classes as his electives and how this sparked his passion. He explains that in these classes, he realized that art was important and required just as much discipline as engineering. Also, how and where art is used and the type of career a person can have encompassing these interests is discussed in detail. Henry is using art as the focal point. The interview goes through how he tried and researched various disciplines such as industrial design, graphic arts, and finally marketing, which he pursued. This episode then goes into a detailed discussion of marketing as a field, covering topics from education to getting a job, working in the industry, and starting a marketing firm. This is an uplifting and encouraging episode illustrating how someone like Henry discovers his passion which is art and explores various avenues where this discipline can be used. In doing so this episode will appeal to anyone interested in the arts in general, industrial design, graphic arts, and marketing. Entrepreneurship is talked about as Henrey’s story includes striking out on his own and building a business “States of Matter”. More importantly, it is how someone like Henry tested various career paths to find his calling. Some life lessons on finding one's true colors. https://www.statesofmatter.com/