This week, Diana returned from her holiday and rejoined Maria and I’s morning meetings. The aim this week was to have the line art for the mural finished by Thursday so we could get it approved and move on to the finishing steps the following week. At the communications team meeting on Monday, Jesse showed us the finished infographic cards that include QR codes for TRIUMF’s future in-person tours. I got to see them in action on Tuesday when Maria and I went on-site to attend the weekly co-op meeting. There we reviewed designs for the commemorative TRIUMF hoodie (or crewneck? It’s a very heated debate) and went with a modified version of Diana’s past sticker design. We also played an interesting group game at which we failed epically; turns out no one in the group has superior attention to detail (there goes that resume padding).
Wednesday and Thursday were crunch days —I simply worked on executing the mural design— and on Thursday we had a design team meeting to go over the mural line art. It has been approved and we’re moving on to color next! I took notice of the importance of setting break alarms this week; working at home is so free of distractions that I stare and my screen for hours on end and give myself a neck ache.
I was happy to have Diana back this week to seek out design advice. Being the only other graphic designer who illustrates within the communications group, she’s always a huge help with her discerning eye.
This week’s intern dinner was homemade spaghetti! It was delicious, especially after laboring hard to boil four pots of pasta and cook an ungodly amount of puttanesca. It was a team effort. In a very small studio kitchen.
