The day i was going to meet Whole Whale the company where i would intern, i was nervous because i’ve never really worked anywhere else other than my restaurant job and excited because i was finally going to do something I enjoyed doing.

When i walked into the building i took the elevator the the 4th floor and i’m not sure what i was expecting or what i was thinking, i kind of went blank. I heard a ding and met Ann who is my supervisor. She greeted me and took me too the office where i met most of the people that i would be working with the size of the company is not that big. they have a total of 6 full time employees and 3 interns (including myself). They all seemed glad to have me there which felt good and made me a bit less nervous. Then

Julie (another one of my supervisors) explained about the company’s  and the history of it. Whole Whale is only about 5 years old and was founded by George Weiner who usually working at the office as well.  Whole Whale is a data strategy company that only works with nonprofits that the whole team agrees on. Some of the clients are Ad Council, Planned Parenthood, Power Poetry, National Stroke Association and a lot more. Most of them are listed on the client page each with a description on what the organization asked for and what Whole Whale did for them.  I am going to be working with Ann who is the Main designer at Whole Whale. but she does more than just Graphics from what i was told by Julie. Apparently she does most of the website redesign and content management. It’s a bit intimidating but I’m glad I’ll have that kind of guidance throughout the internship.

I then began speaking to Ann and she immediately began talking to me about their clients, how everything was going to work, what i would be doing, what style the wanted it in and just the general culture of the workspace. The main responsibility i have is to create graphics for their blog, website, videos or whatever they needed a graphic for. Ann also introduced me to 2 new programs Sketch and Invision. i don’t know much about them, but i am excited to learn more about them. what i do know is that they are mainly for web design and web mock-ups.  My first day of work was going to be on Monday and I was looking forward to it.