Day: October 22, 2016

I think my performance on the job shows that I am very dedicated with what I am doing. I enjoy designing, and I always want to be really creative in every assignment I get. I feel really motivated and excited with the idea. In result, I work really quickly and send out several versions of my work, which I feel comes out really well. There are times that I do get stuck and times I get frustrated because I put a lot of pressure on myself to always better what I just gave to my supervisor. In different projects, I feel differently. I love doing magazine layouts and making them look different but consistent. In the end, I am always proud of what I do because I know I’ve given 100% effort.

 

 

In my internship, all of the design work is collaborative work with my supervisor. Our working process begins with information on my next project. He shows me some old designs that they have done for that specific feature and what the goal is. I then receive a packaged file which includes: fonts, images, and a word document. The document may include sidebar information, captions, and quotes. The last project I worked on was a Four Page Spread for the magazine’s Buzz Feature section. The headline was based on Napa Valley Film Festival. In this assignment, I worked on creating and appealing and organized layout. It was difficult since there was a lot of sections and images to include. This assignment took almost three hours to complete. Greg, my supervisor would approach me to see my progress and talk to me about my composition. I didn’t notice that my leading was to spread out. So, when I fixed it everything changed. Furthermore, Greg is constantly improving my layouts and giving me feedback. It came out really successful because I started pointing out my  mistakes and why it looked better to do the changes my supervisor asked for.