Week four at TRIUMF. Monday was kicked off with a morning design team meeting with Maria, and in the afternoon the communications team had a zoom call to go over this week’s tasks. Sean, Jesse, and I set up a time on Thursday to meet with the mural project’s clients. I spent my time from Monday to Thursday meeting with Maria to help out with her website UX research, proofing other members’ designs, and putting together a presentation for the stakeholder meeting. Thursday’s meeting had me a little n e r v o u s but I think I did well! There was some debate on how to approach getting consent to put people’s names up on the mural, and a discussion on terminology, such as using “engineers” vs “engineering” to designate contributors’ roles. More politics involved than I was expecting! In the end, the stakeholders decided on a fully illustrative mural rather than one using typography, largely due to the terminology issue.
I also worked on the TRIUMF merch this week! Many of the co-op students take issue with the TRIUMF logo due to it supposedly looking like a certain body part (think… Walmart’s logo). Thus, creating a design that still felt true to the TRIUMF brand while pleasing the clients was a delicate balancing act. After some iterations and feedback, we arrived at a potential solution which I’ll have to run by Dana, the co-op student coordinator, and Diana. I’m hopeful that the relatively small output (about 25 hoodies) will help sway them into agreeing.
In other (shocking) news, we had a COVID outbreak at the Tuesday morning intern meeting! Everyone took tests and only a few people came out positive, but it was enough to postpone the highly anticipated weekend trip to Victoria the group had planned. But it’s okay because the purge survivors settled on getting ramen at Danbo instead.
Shoutout to Jesse for being an awesome handler these past two weeks!
