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.