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.