Entry 5

So I and along with the three other interns had to create these banners for a restaurant called Farmers Pizza and Grill. Each of us created about three to four boards for this project. We of course communicated through zoom and initially, Marla wanted the boards to be colorful or have some type of uniqueness. At first, we used white and blackboards but we ended up just using a darker background for each board (as you can see in the images from the restaurant above).

Marla had shown a few pictures of how our boards looked in the actual restaurant a couple of weeks after we had finished them up. I felt a sense of pride and satisfaction when I saw the pictures of my designs being displayed. All of our boards came out really well and they fit right in with the look and feel of Farmers Pizza and Grill.

Entry 4 – The Graphic Novels of Megascope Event

I attended an event about different black comic books artist and their work and found it interesting.  Each artist had a distinct way of expressing their art. The host of this event was John Jennings, the curator of Megascope which is a line of graphic novels that specializes in displaying works from men and women of color.  These works focus on genres like science fiction, fantasy, horror, history, etc. Even though my interest isn’t exactly focused on creating graphic novels, I found this event to be very informative when it comes to the creative process of designing and storyboarding these types of works.

Entry 2 – First Job

So I am currently a mentee/ assistant at Calling All Graphics. To get this opportunity I just sent out an email that was available on my COMD4900 coordination site to Marla Gotay who runs the business and surprisingly I got back a reply on the same day. I didn’t really have to do an interview since Marla liked my portfolio also I was relieved about that part. I believe that what really stood out was my after-effects skills since that was what she was looking for. After a reply back Marla set up a meet-up via zoom to introduce myself and also asked for the days I was available to work. There was also another intern on Zoom with me and Marla.

I then started working the week right after. My first task ever was to fix and add the prices to a menu for a bagel shop in Indesign. This wasn’t difficult however I was a little rusty in Indesign since I have not used the program for quite some time.