Category Archives: Summer 2017

Day Two Down!

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Today I felt much better mentally! Knowing what a pleasant office environment I was walking into helped me to calm down, focus, and feel more excited about what I am and will be further doing this fall. This internship is all new to me but I am grateful to have such helpful hands on deck to help see me through. Thank you everyone!

We finished up the City Tech Writer posters first. I was only able to finish one completely and yet I was able to give that one my all. Then we worked on a web banner for the FC website. After the break, we were given a redesign assignment. I’m very ecstatic about what I am working with. I did want to work more on typography design and looks like I’ll be getting a chance with this new task!

Unfortunately its almost time to go home, but I feel excited about coming back and learning more.

Day 1 Training Journey

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Today is my first day working on the Faculty Commons, I’m happy that I can be here, and studying with many other great students. For me, this is a new experience which I never have before. Of course, it’s a challenge. In the class, if we want to do a project, it always cost us one-two weeks to finish it. However, in Faculty Commons, we only have 4 hours for thinking about two ideas of poster and done with the draft. Time is busy, but I think I can control it.

Also, I need say a lot of “Thank you” to William and Natalie, they really helped me a lot, fix the pencil case in illustrator and indesign, also teach me how to write the E-mail to Client and helped me correcting grammar. Overall, I leaned today, which is how to share the ideas with other and how to be a graphic design worker.

I’m looking forward for tomorrow’s training.

 

First Day of Training!

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As I always do, I arrived way too early than I needed. I passed the time by battling down my anxiousness and wondering what I was going to do today. I learned by 9:01am that I didn’t have much to worry about! Natalie and William were super kind and broke everything down that Lu and I would be doing for the next week and a half.

The first “project” was replicating an old poster as close as we possibly can. The catch: the file was riddled with different type of errors that we had to keep an eye out for. This one was fun since typos grind my gears. I had the most fun attempting to replicate logos that were actually provided for me in the given folders… everyone got a good laugh at that!

What I found most difficult was mainly in how I think. After some research I tend to have a few ideas on what I would like to work with but once I start giving them life in Illustrator or InDesign, I never feel they are any good. Usually a taking a step away from what I’m working on helps.

As is usual with the first day and with my personality in general, I come off shy at first meeting. But any time we needed something Lu and I had no problem asking the other about it. I’m sure that by the end of the training we’ll be much more comfortable around each other.