Time has been passing so rapidly. This has been another week dedicated to getting everything prepared for IMATS. After the displays Melissa gave me another assignment, which was to design a simple banner. The banner is going to be displayed on the focal table of the Lip bar station for IMATS. She wanted an all white design but I also did a black version so it would be true to the design aesthetics of the company. She had asked me to include the company logo, the company website, and the phrase “Cosmetics for the health conscious consumer.” After I finished with the design she gave me one minor revision. She asked me to remove the red box and also make the website type size a bit bigger. She also gave me two more assignments, which was to design five by nine inch post cards. The purpose of the first post card was to make potential buyers away of the two for thirty-five dollars, and four for sixty-four dollar specials. The purpose of the second postcard was to bring attention to the free Lip bar pen buyers can receive by simply following the Lip bar’s Instagram page, as well as liking the Lip bar’s Facebook fan page. After I finished those designs Melissa had asked me to deliver a package to the post office as well as pick up six frames from the arts and craft store. After I returned Melissa showed me the printed information card I designed earlier and thanked me.  I have to admit I felt pretty happy to know my work was going to be handed out to people at IMATS. It felt really good to see hard work pay off. I am just hoping in the future I can do some photoshoots. I also hope my designs will improve.

This was my first week internship in Asian Fusion magazine. My supervisor is called Rick; he is the editor in chief of the magazine. Because they didn’t provide workspace to me, I had to work at home. My supervisor asked me to go the office and present my works to him every week. Since the articles and photos for the coming winter issue were not ready yet, Rick wanted me to redesign the fall issue of the magazine. He wanted to see how I can improve the original design. The magazine became more popular; he would like to upgrade the style of this magazine in order to look more upscale and professional. Therefore, he wanted to see more variation from other designers. After I took the files which from last section, my second part of internship were begin. I decided to work on their feature section first. All information had to fit in six pages. I changed to three columns instead of two, use Arial font in the text and redesign the position of the tile. After I fished the layout design, I found there are no connections of each page; I decided to add an element to make them look unity. I edited an illustration of camera lens as the background in each page, because the feature’s tile was “A Photographer’s Lens”. And then I continued to work on the content page. After three days, my supervisor asked me to present the works I had done so far. He liked the change which I did and let me continue to work on other section.

This week is my last week to be an intern to work for L and L, and I feel a bit upset while I back to office today. It has been two months that I am working here, now is time to leave when the end of this week.

George asked me to do the flyer for Christmas, he said he want the holiday feeling about this flyer. My first reaction is: holiday feeling? For me, it means red, color full, and snow. I sketched the outline, then start work on computer. This project is easy, because I like Christmas, and I like to do a flyer about this lovely holiday. I used red color as background, use light ball sharps to fill with pictures and different color that easy to type text on, it can make it more visible. On the bottom, I use two different yellow colors to fill the shopping bag, since this flyer have four different tours inside, and one of it is the shopping tour.  George didn’t ask me to change anything for the first time, when I showed it to him. I feel happy during this week even I have to leave so soon.

On the last day of my work, I have received a gift from George gave me a gift it is a 32G USB. He didn’t say too much to me, only said: “ hopefully you have learn something here, keep on your future.” I packed my stuff, then walked to him room and leave my business card to him that I wrote Thank You behind the card.

Time pass fast, and my intern still have two more weeks left. I feel not really want to end so soon, after I got more and more close to each one in this office. For this week, George asked me to do a poster for two different tours.

I have learned that I need to do the research of Tennessee and Acadia before I sketch the ideas. I spent two days to find the most beautiful pictures and asked the tour guide where will be the place most people like from the tour. I tried to do a combination poster this time by used the Adobe Photoshop. I used five different pictures create a feeling of heaven, which has sky, ego for the white background. Since I don’t use Adobe Photoshop a lot, so I already forgot some of the skills, then I need to go up YouTube to remind how to do it. I have used the maple leafs for background, because this poster is to promotion in Fall, so I guess maple leafs is the best way to do it since both of place can see the maple leafs during the tour. I mean to make the price number out of the yellow circle to make people only can see the $10, then they will find out the actual price once they check the poster again. Last step is type the company logo and contract information.  George said no need to have company logo and contract information this time, but leave our company name is fine. He told me this poster is for company display while I was wondering why not leave the logo and contract information.

I believe I am getting better to be an intern in L and L now.

As of now we are still in the process of preparing for IMATs. This week I managed to finish both the information card as well as the three displays. I realized from this week I lost a lot of my design inspiration due to both lack of sleep, and stress. Having back-to-back assignments can be extremely exhausting! Especially when you have to balance work, and school along with this internship. Welcome to the life of a designer right? Moving along from this whiny moment, I am extremely filled with joy regarding the fact that I finished all three Lipstick displays. I feel there is still room for improvement but there is always time for change. The process was pretty tedious. Melissa did not have a lot of pictures to choose from. She had mentioned at the beginning of the project that she will allow me to do a Photoshoot of my own since we didn’t have enough files but unfortunately due to the limited amount of time, we had no choice but to settle with the photos she already had. I advised her to choose models from different ethnicities so the products can reach out towards a broader audience.  As a result all the photos I selected had one Asian, Hispanic, and black model. I would have preferred the original photo I chose for the black model due to her darker complexion but me Melissa did not find the photo appealing. I found the whole conversation pretty ironic because I did not find the Hispanic photo she chose “appealing”. This situation just reminded me of the ever so popular saying, “Whatever the client wants”. She wanted specific colors to standout on the displays for some of the models I had to alter the lipstick color in Photoshop. From there I added some body copy and made sure to have a unified piece.