Josh's Internship Log Blog

1.5 hours. Total hours: 102. Today was my very last day working this job and last day for my hours in this internship experience. It was a really good job…

3 hours. I’m kinda getting ready to sign off for good at this internship as tomorrow, and my next post, will be my last for this blog which is kinda…

2 hours. Today I added quite a few more mockups to the canvas that is currently the athletic wear clothing line that our creative office has been working on. I’ve…

2 hours. I kept trying to tweak this shorts mockup I’ve been making for this athletic wear brand update but feel like I’m just running around in circles or however…

2 hours. I got a new task today to reformat an existing ad for the school radio and radio podcasts. It was an ad that was ran previously and needed…

2.5 hours. worked on creating a mockup today of the gym shorts called for in the athletic clothing task. It went well for the most part but I look at…

1.5 hours. There’s this need to post every social media option into Canva for it to be used by the social team and I’m really trying to get used to…

2.5 hours. I spent most of my shift today creating different ideas or vectors and options for one social post that I had decided to iterate on for probably longer…

2 HOURS. TODAY WE HAD A TEAM MEETING FOR A WHILE TALKING ABOUT PROJECTS EVERYONE’S WORKED ON. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT CHANGES NEEDED IN PROJECTS AND SOME NEW PROJECTS WERE…

2.5 hours. I made some needed refinements to the activities center slide that I’ve been working on today. It’s funny how it’s organized and how the client wanted the deliverable…

2 hours. I did some more work on the social posts I’ve slowly been working on and did some more combing for images on the school image library website. It…

3 hours. Today I received a new task involving a pretty dated piece of media. Well, it felt dated but was probably only from 2016 or something. Anyway, I couldn’t…

1 hour. Today I made quite a bit more options in the short amount of time I worked. At this point in the project I’ve made a lot of different…

2 hours. I was messing around with effects a lot today. I asked Jed, my supervisor if I could download a plugin for photoshop that would allow me to create…

3 hours. Today I experimented with burning paper because I was trying to think outside of the box and truthfully couldn’t find a good mockup of what I wanted online.…

3 hours. Today I worked a lot in photoshop to create a good looking background for my poster. Another of my coworkers was also working on this project and had…

4.2 hours. Today I refocused all of my attention and effort towards this Romeo and Juliet play poster. I was enthusiastic to make something for this because I felt like…

2 hours. Today I continued working on the pixel stretch social post and also received a new task. The new task was for a play poster design for the play…

2.5 hours. Today was a pretty fun day. I participated in a social post following a social trend of warping pixels of images in photoshop. This kind of trend has…

1.5 hours. Today something happened that was pretty normal but specific and a little long to explain well. The phenomenon of an old or previously submitted project that got pushed…

3 hours. I’ve recently been assigned some social media tasks and was looking through religious/ spiritual posts specifically. The leaders of the social media branding team are collaborating with me…

3 hours. Today I got some needed feedback on the chatbot web banner ad and made necessary adjustments. I’d previously received some feedback from the client to abandon new directions…

3.5 hours. Today was my first day back from vacation and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the alumni dinner card design had been completed by Erika, my designer…

3 hours. Today I began work on a new task targeted at alumni for a special dinner they’d be having. However I was planning on leaving for a brief vacation…

2 hours. Starting this week I created a great deal of designs for the chatbot web banner, a lot more iterations than previously. Something that I find I do often…

3 hours. Thursday. Today I made a lot of progress editing images of students and removing distracting elements. A favorite task today was removing a branded element off of a…

2 hours. I’ve spent today manipulating images that I found in photoshop to look a lot better and fit the parameters of this project to my supervisors satisfaction. At first…

2 hours. I reached out to our campus photographer today about getting a photoshoot set up. This, like I mentioned in previous posts, was an aspect of the project and…

3 hours. Today I had a really fun opportunity to work with the social media team on a quick project involving our school logo. Recently Spotify has switched their iconic…

1 hour. Today was Friday and so my shift wasn’t quite as intense as other weekdays. I also neglected to capture any screenshots for the day but I did continue…

2.5 hours. Every Tuesday on campus we have a campus wide devotional in the I-center. This prevents anything else on campus from being scheduled during this time. So nobody has…

1.5 hours. Today I spent my whole shift working on finding more images, organizing my new ai file, and orienting images on art-boards for this new “Sunday Kiosk Ad Campaign”.…

3 hours. Today I inherited an “ai” file (Adobe Illustrator) of a past prospected project involving newly installed digital kiosk screens around campus. It was a campaign that illustrated our…

3 hours. What came of the Temple to Temple medal design was pretty impressive in my opinion, the final designs were clean and clear. I had been particularly impressed by…

Thursday. 2 hours. Today was an especially productive day for me. I had been assigned another new task: creating medals for winners and competitors in the school’s “Temple to Temple…

2 hours. Today I finished up my jerseys and handed them off to another designer peer that I had who had been tasked with compiling and refining all of the…

3 hours. Today I continued my work on jerseys for the school but shifted focus from basketball to rugby jerseys. I was assign both sport jerseys to work on and…

Thursday. 2 hours. Today I continued work on the jerseys I’d began earlier this week. This was a fun part of the project because I’d just begun experimenting with the…

Monday. 3 hours. Today was my first day of the second week of my work during my internship. For this week I was put on a pretty cool project for…

1 hour. Today was my last day working on the BYUI LIVE logotype. I neglected to mention in previous posts that my supervisor and senior designer Jed had also been…

2 hours. Today I continued developing the “BYUI LIVE” logotype with several different iterations of drafts. I began to explore a more specific look based on a specific few fonts,…

2 hours. I began this project with a simple group of sketches that I eventually adapted into digital sketches/ drafts. I spent a pretty fair amount of time brainstorming different…

3 hours. For this first day doing my internship I’ll explain where I’ll be working for the next little while and log the progress I made in my projects.For my…