Category: Process Journal

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I recieved a brief for an article discussing a new album from JPEGMAFIA called “Experimental Rap”. This was one of the funnest projects I got to work on because I’ve listened to his music before and enjoyed it. I actually forgot that he dropped a new album before I got the assignment so before starting work on it, I went to listened to the album, and the music videos that were produced for it. I found that listening to his music while working on a design related to him helped me focus a lot more, and I’m pretty happy with what I submitted to them. I even made variations for my own purpose.

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This article was about a animated show called “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85”, which is a spinoff from the tv show “Stranger Things”. After releasing season 1, they apparently announced a season 2 almost a week after, and the writer expressed concern on them jumping the gun and becoming similar to Star Wars franchise. For this project, I decided to use the trailer and scenes I saw to use as my imagery for the design, and collage them together.

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As I’ve been doing the projects they’ve been giving me at Trill, I’ve had to change the way I obtain images for creating designs. I tend to just go on google and search on the images tab, but that’s not allowed for them. I was given a Shutterstock account to use to find images.

It was a small issue on my most recent work for Trill, an article cover for an article speaking about the Met Gala 2026, and how fashion used to be seen as an artform, and currently is not being seen that way.

I had used an image of one of the participants of this event, but due to it being from another article I couldn’t use it. Using Shutterstock, I found another similar image to replace the one I used, and got it to be accepted

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Due to the internship being a remote role, I don’t have any face to face interactions with the people I work with. There aren’t any zoom meetings either, they used a combination of Trello, Slack, and Notion to communicate with each other. Trello is the main place where I recieve projects and where they review all the other interns’ designs that work with them. I can say that the writers are on the younger side like me, as this magazine is meant for Gen-Z.