Day Twenty: 4/9/13

Today, I worked on a booklet for the Rotary Golf tournament. The booklet has a bunch of different sponsors for the event, containing advertisements and so on. Since the event isn't for a while, there isn't much content to put in the booklet. I added a couple of advertisements to get the booklet started.

Day Nineteen: 4/4/13

Today, I did some web design for the Yale School of Nursing. There are currently two websites that the school of nursing is constantly updating, and those websites are nursing.yale.edu, and dev.sleep.yale.edu

The former is Yale School of Nursing's main website, which displays news, information, and everything else you need to know about the School of Nursing. It is a standard university website that is constantly updating as new information comes in every week.

The other website is for Yale's Sleep Center research program, which is still in early development and cannot be accessed through the use of a public connection. One must be connected to Yale's secure wireless network in order to get to the website.

Both sites use versions of Drupal, an in-browser web editing program. The nursing website uses Drupal 6, while the Sleep Center website uses Drupal 7.

I added a few new News Stories to the School of Nursing's main website, keeping the website up to date with upcoming events and other news that was posted to the front page. I learned the basics of Drupal during this process and managed a variety of content on the website in the process.

Since the Sleep Center website is still in development, a lot of it's information was missing. I was given a hefty amount of content that was to be added to the website before it goes public. This included new pages, new navigation tools, and so on. This expanded my knowledge on Drupal even further and I'm glad I got the experience in it.

Day Twenty Seven: 5/2/13

Our last day at the Yale School of Nursing! Today, supervisor John Powers and his assistant Meghan Murphy (who was a former Quinnipiac student that used to intern at the School of Nursing) took us out to lunch. We walked around New Haven and went to Prime 16, a burger place in downtown New Haven. It was a very nice treat from Mr. Powers, and I really appreciate the great opportunity he gave me. Working on graphic design for the Yale School of Nursing was an amazing experience and I'm glad I decided to intern there.

Day Twenty Six: 4/30/13

Today, I continued working on the Cardio-oncology pamphlet for the School of Nursing. This pamphlet was a big challenge because it was an all-text project. Typically, pamphlets have images on a few pages or so, but this one was all text. I made a graphic to run along the top border, and worked around with some text effects so it wasn't all plain text. I think the final result came out nicely. Below you can find a couple of pages of the finished project:

Day Twenty Five: 4/25/13

Today was a pretty slow work day. I worked on more images for the school's website, which involved me taking pictures of of both the digital camera and the Flickr account, and fixing them up for the website (and to re-post on the flickr account with better quality). These images were from the Bellos Lecture event, which is an event I made a flyer for previously.

Before

After

I also worked on a pamphlet for a lecture that was being held in mid May. The pamphlet is titled "Cardio-Oncology" and gave detailed information on how to keep your heart healthy. It is still in the works as of now.

Day Twenty Four: 4/23/13

Today, I was feeling ill and could not make it to the School of Nursing. I offered to work from home as I was recovering, but my supervisor John Powers said that there was nothing that needed to be completed urgently.

Day Twenty Three: 4/18/13

Today, I worked on a flyer for a memorial event for Donna Diers, a member of the School of Nursing who recently passed away. When a member of the school of nursing passes away, there is always a memorial event held to celebrate the life of that person. They like to keep these flyers relatively similar throughout the years, so I used an old flyer from a previous memorial event as my inspiration.

I also worked on making PDF pages of the Yale Nursing Matters magazine. It is a monthly magazine that the School of Nursing publishes that contains various information on nursing and other events going on with YSN. My task was to take the magazine and make separate PDFs of each page, that way each story can be grouped together in their own PDF document and sent to their respective writers.

Day Twenty Two: 4/16/13

Today I mostly did some more website work, mainly with the School of Nursing's main website as well as their Flickr image account. One of the biggest events for the School of Nursing is coming in August; when they will be changing campuses and moving to the newly constructed West Haven building. Many images have been taken in order to prepare for this move, and they want the new West Haven Campus to be showcased as much as possible. The main thing I did with these images was resizing them so they can fit on a banner on the home page. Below you can find some of the West Campus images I used from the Flickr account to use on the school of nursing's website:

Day Twenty One: 4/11/13

Today I worked on more web design for the School of Nursing. I focused on the Sleep Center website today, as it is still in development and needs a lot more content. The website has a lot of text content on it since the last time I worked on it. So today, my job was to find images from different stock photo websites that we could use for the website. Although they are placeholders for now, the school of nursing plans on buying out some of their favorite images in order to use them for the home page scrolling image banner as well as inserts for pages with a lot of text and no images. Below are some of the images I found, related to sleep disorders:

Day Eighteen: 4/2/13

Today, I worked on the invite for the Creative Writing Awards event for this year. The booklet for the event is all set and done, but the School of Nursing wanted to send out an invite for the event as well. The invitation card kept the same design style and layout as the pamphlet, but it was only a small invitation card with two pages in it.

Day Seventeen: 3/28/13

Today, I worked on the Rotary Golf project a little further. Instead of working on the brochure, which has already been finished, I worked on a new logo for their tournament. The old tournament logo, which was the lobster holding the golf ball (as found on the brochure) was unappealing and they wanted something completely different. One thing they stressed is that this tournament is unique due to the fact that they serve a lobster meal after the golfing event. They wanted this lobster aspect to be relevant in the new logo as well. Here is a logo I came up with. The lobster part is not as relevant but it is still there, and it is more appealing than the old logo which contained blotchy and pixelated images and text.

Day Sixteen: 3/26/13

Today, I worked on a poster for a lecture event for the School of Nursing. Every year, the school has a Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture at the university, where a different guest speaker comes each year to lecture about an important and informational topic. This year was Suzanne Gordon lecturing on Team Intelligence and why it is important. This poster for the event can be found below:

Day Fifteen: 3/21/13

Today, I worked on touching up some photos from an event in Nicaragua to post on the School of Nursing website. I brought the original photos into Photoshop and reworked them, making them sharper and brighter as well. After touching them up I added them to the School of Nursing website as well. Here are some of the reworked images:

Day Fourteen: 3/19/13

The main project I focused on today was putting together the final touches on the Creative Writing awards pamphlet that I worked on earlier in the semester. One of the pages we were missing was the page that listed the creative writing award winners. This page had pictures of each of the winners as well as a small bio about each of them. There were three winners in total. Before bringing the photos into the InDesign document, I brought them into PhotoShop in order to touch them up a bit. Here is the page in the pamphlet for the award winners:

Day Eleven: 3/7/13

Today, I worked on a few minor projects for the school of nursing. Along with some web design, I worked on a Pin Solicitation Postcard, which can be found below. I also worked on a magazine advertisement for multiple positions that are available at the school of nursing. The biggest challenge for this project was fitting all of the information on the document. Since it was an advertisement, it had specifications, therefore I had to fit all of this information about these open positions on this somewhat small document. Both of these projects can be found below:

Day Twelve/Thirteen: 3/12/13 and 3/14/13

Spring break.

Day Ten: 3/5/13

Today I worked on some basic designs for a commencement event for the school of nursing. It is an annual event so they like to keep the sleek design consistent with previous years. Minor changes including date, time, location, etc were made for items such as parking permits and I slightly reworked the design for the cover of the event invitation. The designs can be seen below:

Day Nine: 2/28/13

Today at Yale School of Nursing, I worked to revise the Golf Brochure even further. Today I got a really good understanding of how the design process goes. When you complete a design at the request of another person, the first product you come up with is never the finished product. Between me and Mr. Powers, we have revised, edited, and sent this brochure to the Wallingford Rotary a handful of times, and there are always more edits to be done. Today, however, I believe we finally finished the brochure. Today, I made everything smaller due to the request of a half-inch margin on each page. I also removed the lines in the folds, and deleted a lot of text on the second page. Finally, I replaced the Wallingford Rotary logos with much higher resolution versions. Here is the first page of the brochure after today's revisions:

There is a 0.5 inch white border on the outside.

Day Eight: 2/26/13

Today I worked on even more revisions for the golf brochure that I have been working on for the past couple of weeks. Today, however, there were only a few minor changes. I fixed a couple of spelling errors and reworded some sentences to finalize the design. There were no major design changes - so the end result looks identical to the previously posted picture of the brochure.

I also worked on an advertisement for some non-profit work with an organization involved with the Dominican Republic. The small 4x6 advertisements are for those who support the Joe Hartman School Project, which is an organization devoted to sponsoring children who don't receive proper education in the Dominican Republic due to lack of schools. Here is the final advertisement:

Day Seven: 2/19/13

Today, I worked on some web design for the Yale School of Nursing. There was a few simple touch ups that needed to be done, including some linking to the correct pages and layout editing. The work I have done can be found throughout the school's main website: http://nursing.yale.edu/

Day Six: 2/19/13

Today, I spent most of my time working on redesigning the Rotary Golf brochure that I worked on last Thursday (2/14). Since I worked from home that day, the details weren't exactly clear as to what this organization wanted to do with their brochure. I played it safe and kept the design structure/layout almost exactly the same as the way they originally designed it, while adding a few graphics and some color as well.

Upon arriving to Yale today, however, I was informed that they have decided that they want to do something a lot different. They wanted full creativity in order to make their brochure for this event look stunning. So, I gutted my original design and started from scratch. I played around with tons of different background and font colors, seeing which combination worked the best. I also looked at other golfing brochures online for inspiration. After going back and forth, I finally decided to go with a green color scheme for the background. Since the final brochure was two pages, I also decided to make the inside of the brochure have a landscape going across the background. I made the landscape in Adobe Illustrator before adding it to the brochure as a background. The finished product came out great and it definitely stands out more than my original design from last Thursday.

Day Five: 2/14/13

The Yale School of Nursing was closed on Tuesday, February 12 due to the snow storm so I did not have any work from the internship that day. Today, however, I worked on a couple of things.

The first project I worked on took up most of my time today, as it was a pretty big non-profit project. Mr. Powers sent me a brochure for the Wallingford Foundation's annual Rotary Golf event. The brochure was in need of major design reworking so I got started. I had to re-type all of the text, and I arranged some of it slightly different from the original. I also added in some golf-related graphics on the first page to add color. I highlighted important aspects of the brochure in red to make them stand out, and I used blue as an accent color for titles, dividing lines, and so on. Overall I think the finished product came out great:

The other project I worked on for the day was a touch up for an annual Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing event. I updated the year as well as the info (attendees, event location, etc). I kept the general layout the same because I was directed to do so. Here is the final result:

 

Day Four: 2/7/13

Today, I worked on a lot of designs for the Dominican Republic Mission Team program booklet. The large booklet is released every year and contains advertisements for lots of local businesses and sponsors. First, I edited the banner that goes along the top of each page by adding some new graphics to it (and changing the slogan/year). An example of the banner on one of the pages can be found below:

I also worked on an inside cover for the program booklet. The two pages I worked on had old advertisements that weren't really standing out, so Mr. Powers assigned me to clean them up a bit. The result of my work is found below. I mainly focused on the larger ad on the left page and the bottom ad on the right page. Those two had unappealing text as well as poor layout choices and hardly any color.

My final task of the day was a simple one. The document found below was to be made into an editable PDF document for future users to fill out at their convenience on their own computer. However, the blank areas in which they were to fill out seemed a little off-putting without any sort of box to indicate where users should type. So, I added a couple of boxes and made it look more appealing for an editable PDF document.

Day Three: 2/5/13

Today,  I finished up some logo designs for Liberty Community Church in North Haven. I had plenty of ideas for graphic designs that portray liberty and freedom, so I ended up making three different logos for the church.

I made the wings for the first logo in Illustrator, and I used the Pen tool as well as some shapes to make the graphics for the other two logos. The last one is my favorite, and it'll be interesting to see how the church likes them.

Another project I worked on was an invite for Yale School of Nursing's annual Creative Writing Event for this year. Each year has a special guest speaker, who is advertised on two of the four pages with picture and information, while the other two pages have information on the event itself. I looked at last year's design and kept the structure similar, while mainly changing the fonts and colors. I changed some of the layout as well. Below is the finished product:

Day Two: 1/31/13

Today I continued working on the Yale School of Nursing 90th Anniversary Logo that I started on the 29th. After I deciding exactly how I wanted it to look, I did some tweaking here and there, added a banner-like graphic in front of the YSN logo, and finished it up. Below is the finished product:

For the rest of the day, I worked on my first non-profit project that Mr. Powers had assigned me. The project was to create a new logo for a local church in North Haven called Liberty Community Church. The folks over at the church wanted a new logo that not only expressed the idea of their church name - Liberty, but they also wanted to be able to have a graphic logo that can be used separately from the actual words "Liberty Community Church." They gave sent us some over their design/brainstorming ideas and after viewing those I got to work.

Day One: 1/29/13

Today I started my first day as a graphic design intern at the Yale School of Nursing. Working directly under Mr. John Powers, I got started immediately on some graphic design work for the school. The first thing I did was edit and update an Annual Report cover/back for the 2011-2012 version:

The format was pretty much left the same as last year's, but there were a few things to update. First, I updated the images with new, high resolution images. Second, I did a little work with the borders to give them a nice balance of color. The final thing I did was the entire back page, which required downloading and using the Yale Design font for the information in the top corner as well as including their logo in the center. This was a great project to get me stated and familiar with the graphic design work I would be doing throughout the semester.

After finishing that cover report, I grabbed some 3D floor plan images from a PowerPoint presentation that Mr. Powers had sent me and made them higher resolution for an Apple Book he was going to include them in. The images were for the School of Nursing's future building in West Haven. Below is an example of one of the images:

After updating about 19 images to high resolution JPGs, I got started on another project. The Yale School of Nursing is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year, and they wanted a "Celebrating 90 Years" - type logo for the occasion. I researched other schools's anniversary logos and got started on some ideas.