Category: Internship Blogs

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After reading the AIGA article “DESIGN BUSINESS + ETHICS”, I had read about the importance of using someone else’s work which can even include images or artwork from online sources like Google. Depending if the work is uncertain that it can be for commercial use or not, it would be really important to contact the photographer or designer for permission before using it in their work. Otherwise, it is not ethical where the designer is essentially stealing their work which is wrong even when done by accident.

Based on my work experience in designing the visual guide, I had to be aware of taking screenshots or video-record in the workplace which may require asking permission from all employees in the workplace. While I had been developing my visual guide for my internship, I had used several screenshots that I took with most of them focused on the core tasks. Some images which included certain people like the boss and supervisor may require permission if I am allowed to show their profile picture and name in the visual guide. Even if they are employees which are not much of the artwork, it is unethical if I post their profile pictures and name exposed without their permission, unless GAO Tek had a non-disclosure form that allowed employees’ names and profiles to appear in the company’s work.

References:

http://www.makinggood.ac.nz/media/1278/aiga_47555891-design-business-and-ethics-1-.pdf

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It is my final week in my internship and I have my supervisor sign off my hourly timesheet to confirm that I had worked 120 hours in the workplace. She also was able to sign off my evaluation form which will eventually be sent to my internship professor pretty soon. I am really happy that this is all done and I had learned valuable techniques and progress that can help me towards my creative career, especially that I have planned to be a full-time freelancer by the time I graduated City Tech.

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I am still in the progress to communicate with my Supervisor and Staff to figure out who gets to sign off my Internship Evaluation forms as the team has been large and the employee that hired me which was supposed to sign had retired on January 29, 2021. The good thing is that I had been keeping in touch with both my new Supervisor and my Staff to communicate with the company on finding the person that has permission to sign off my Internship forms about my summit training, plus my Visual Work on an info guide to help out new interns. We still use the website Bitrix24.com to communicate with my employees using chat features.

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I had pretty much concluded my work on my internship and I am waiting for my Staff for a response if my Supervisor can sign my hourly timesheet and my evaluation that includes part of the visual work I had done and mentioned from last week. This is so the supervisor can have the ability to sign off my internship, approve my 120 hours of work, and put in the visual design work that I had done during my work experience. The workplace is broken down into different teams and there are hundreds of interns working in different positions so it may take a long while for my approval, especially with different workers working in different time zones. In that case tho, it also makes me practice my office etiquette on how to behave professionally in the workplace which can be important when I eventually find my career in design.

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Link: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/squach-eportfolio/2021/03/05/gao-tek-info-guide-for-new-interns/

During my 100 to 120 hours of work of the internship, I was finally able to create visual work that I actually wanted to develop for a while due to the complexity of the internship and not a lot of interns understood their roles. The link attached above will bring you to the visual work that I developed for GAO Tek interns.

Based on most of my internship progress, complex guidelines, and other interns’ experience, I used all of these factors as notes in order to create my visual project which is known as an “Info Guide for new Interns in the Summit Internship”. This type of guide simplifies instructions with very few pages on the daily tasks required for the internship. It goes hand in hand with the complex guidelines as they always keep changing, but my guide overall explains the daily role for the internship. The development of the guide using both Adobe Photoshop and Indesign has taken at least 6 or more hours and refining the guide from typos, mistakes and updates added an extra 2-3 hours in total.

I shared this with my new interns, team leader, staff, and my supervisor. I was really happy that they had found my info guides to be really useful and as a surprise, some inactive interns had finally understood what to do and were able to work. Some active interns had found my guides a lot more enjoyable to read. As of now, I am waiting if my Supervisor and Staff approve my Info guides for my evaluation, or I would otherwise need to take another visual work project if they ask so I can fulfill my visual work on my evaluation. This choice would determine if I am done or will continue with my internship for a while.

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During week 6 of working on my internship, I had dedicated a lot of time to creating info guide cards as part of my Visual Project.

This project was what I actually wanted to develop for a while due to the complexity of the internship and not a lot of interns understood. Based on most of my internship progress, complex guidelines, and other interns’ experience, I used all of these factors as notes in order to create my visual project which is known as an “Info Guide for new Interns in the Summit Internship”. This type of guide simplifies instructions with very few pages on the daily tasks required for the internship. It goes hand in hand with the complex guidelines as they always keep changing, but my guide overall explains the daily role for the internship. The development of the guide using both Adobe Photoshop and a little of Indesign has taken at least 6 or more hours and refining the guide from typos, mistakes and updates added an extra 2-3 hours in total.

I shared this with my new interns, team leader, staff, and my supervisor. I was really happy that they had found my info guides to be really useful and as a surprise, some inactive interns had finally understood what to do and were able to work. Some active interns found my guides a lot more enjoyable.

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The Project of Gordon Parks was fascinating in his focus on how the Camera is able to change lives by taking pictures of current events of what is going on in society. This is especially as the first African Americans during the era of Civil Rights where they all had been fighting against racism and able to achieve the rights as White people. Even after the Civil Rights ended, racism has been among been the issue, and with technology on the rise, Cameras are still in effect on recording current events and things can go crazy or worse without them.

Sources for the Project:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Parks_2000.jpg

https://advancementproject.org/justice-remixd/essence-communications-inc-vector-logo/

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Ethics is referred to the rightness of what is good and bad. Humans care about how our actions will affect another and we still have selfish urges such as wanting money and popularity. If everyone acted as these desires, then society gets destroyed and there would be no point in businesses and cities running. Ethics explains the right or wrong of what everyone should behave as, especially in businesses.

During my internship experience on creating a visual guide, I had to be aware if I am able to include images on infographics to teach new interns. While it may be used for educational purposes, I have to make sure I do not use images that are from other people’s artwork according to the AIGA Design Guide. Luckily, GAO Tek is a simplistic company using basic images and shapes, but because I am creating a guide for the company, I have to include the company’s logo to ensure it’s from them and that it is the latest version.

 

References:

http://www.makinggood.ac.nz/media/1278/aiga_47555891-design-business-and-ethics-1-.pdf

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I have completed a total of 100 hours of work and this week will be my last week to work on the internship. I had learned a lot of unique skills in another position especially managing CRMs (Customer Relationship Management) that may or may not have skills to carry for Marketing in the future. Despite I may not have taken any creative stuff in the workplace YET, I had actually contacted my Supervisor if I can participate in any visual design work that could eventually help GAO Tek and the interns. I will explain more details and my final project about it by next week. Additionally, I had contacted the boss in my workplace and I got sent into a Visual Design team that I will temporarily work for a while after my 120 hours of work. I am excited to help out the team for a while using skills that I use and even help with until taking off from the Internship around March. In the meantime, after I took 120 hours of the summit internship, I will share some projects I had been working on from my other classes and even major projects I recently got promoted from the gaming communities including Genshin Impact to design info cards and websites that are all due in May.
I am really excited to finish off my Internship and take on projects that I have wanted to do from now towards the future.

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It has been a month since I had worked on my Internship. There has been a lot of stuff I had learned on my Internship which is a good thing such as understanding Bitrix24 and inviting Leads to CRM (Customer Relationship Management). On the other hand, what I had been getting a headache on was the fact that I have not done any creative work on my internship as most of my work had been like typical office work and inviting leads every weekday. It is a hard debate for me if this is the right internship for me, but I wanted to join and enjoy GAO Tek because I wanted to learn more about Digital Marketing and this position is about Social Media Marketing.

Regardless of being in a different internship spot, I am still gonna try to continue with my internship and be able to learn more. Luckily, I am able to talk and get help from my co-workers and I am gonna try to invest a bit more time in reaching the work requirement. Additionally, I will ask my supervisor and my boss if they are able to provide me any Visual Design work I can at least help in.