The company I am working with for this spring internship, so far my experience has been great. The company is a non-profit organization which helps build economically stable and sustainable communities. Each week a project is assigned, and it’s explained in detail through an app, all assignments were to be submitted remotely meeting the deadline. I believe that internship will help you grow your connections and meet people that will give you great opportunities in the future and when we talk about ethical guidelines
My first task at the company, they showed me their current logo and their branding colors. From there each task that I was assigned to I have to incorporate their branding colors in the design and add their logo. In terms of sourcing images and the company trademarks and logos, I use free stock images and cannot use other designs but your own. It’s ethical if we are using an outside image, we give credit to the author. As the AIGA Design guidelines mentions about the Ethical Standards and a line that stood out for me was “A professional designer will clearly outline all intellectual property ownership and usage rights in a project proposal or estimate”. This demonstrates that a professional designer should clarify the usage rights of a project before it is published or handed in. However, for all the tasks that have been assigned to me, I create my own illustrations and design, as photographs I use stock images from websites. I think that applying this to all my work will succeed in the future and you don’t want someone to sue you because you didn’t give credit for the source you used and can affect your career.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T1vQ-2Z3vPycY5TVx1T96H3SlA8Ho8MG/view?usp=sharing
https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-people-having-meeting-3183186/
