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: