BIG RAPIDS — Chaz Silva started at a Grand Rapids area branding and video studio as an intern. He works there full time now, still with a semester of school left.
Silva, a Grand Rapids native, is a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design program at Ferris State University’s Kendall College of Art and Design and will graduate in December.
At SLS Productions, a branding and video studio in Grandville, most of his client work falls under branding and identity. The studio hands interns and new hires a brief that inverts the usual arrangement. They act as their own client and produce spec work with the full team behind them…