Category: internship

  • Today, I went to a graphic design internship interview. It’s been a while since I’ve interviewed, the last time being for the job I currently have, but I thought an internship would be nice to get some new skills and experiences under my belt with the 15 or so hours a week I have to…

  • Today is the 4th. September 7th is my last day at the Internship. My supervisor asked me to make a list of my tasks I have performed as their intern. I have listed them below. This has been a fruitful experience for me. Other than being in an air conditioned office through the hotter months…

  • Today, at the internship, I got an assignment: redesign a training course completion certificate for a heath care company. I was clarifying the verbal creative brief with my project manager. He relayed the mood adjectives and I made a mood board. It wasn’t so much a mood board as much as an answer to what…

  • This is one of the tasks passed to me as an intern for an advertising agency. This is a fun problem to solve. Turns out that the photographer shot a light fixture product upside down. Photoshop to the rescue! (I used CS3) This image is most of the photoshop file. All that’s missing is the…

  • As a task for a brochure that my company is making, I created this map in illustrator. When my supervisor told me to make the dark rectangle look more like railroad tracks, I knew it was a job for the brush tool. I made a brush for railroad tracks. It made me think about my…

  • In this morning’s meeting, I’ve been given the task of researching a company’s competitors’ social media efforts. This is a way to go back to the client and tell them where the holes are in their armor and offer to fix them for the company. We had a lively discussion about Facebook. Because Facebook changes…

  • This is for people that don’t really know anything about social media. A lot of books I’ve read about social media don’t start with the the idea of the brand being  the hub of your social media strategy. I wanted to explain the initial planning which is in the branding stage. Social media is just…

  • Just now, I had a very lovely exercise in using InDesign. One of my coworkers/supervisors, gave me the task of designing a stationery system for a law firm. After going through two rounds of critique for layout on their envelope, business card and letterhead, they decided to stick with the one they already had. It’s…