I started my practicum at Pivot & Pilot this week! Pivot & Pilot (P&P) is a design agency in Vancouver that helps brands in the food, beauty and wellness industries stand out and capitalize on their first impression. The team at Pivot & Pilot is a small and cozy family of six. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has been going on for more than a year now, most practicums are remote-only. I’m sad that I am unable to go into an office and meet everyone in person! We have been primarily communicating through Slack and Google Meet.
Every morning, we have a team check-in at 9 AM. Serena, Pivot & Pilot’s project manager, gives project updates and feedback from clients to everyone and checks in to see what everyone is working on for the day. I like that they do these morning check-ins because it keeps everyone on track, you get an idea of what other people are working on, and it’s just nice to see everyone’s face at least once during the day! At the beginning of the week, I was working on designing social media content for an upcoming podcast that will be released soon. A cool thing I learned was how to make moving soundwave forms in After Effects that syncs with the audio. Later on in the week, I was put on some web design projects which I am super stoked for! The projects are for a wellness brand and a restaurant brand. I sat in on two client calls that were mainly technical onboarding questions to get a sense of what the client already had on their site.
It’s Thursday today and I ordered Indian food for lunch from a local restaurant called Bombay Flame that recently opened in my Marpole neighbourhood. It’s really affordable and so delicious! I ordered the Butter Chicken lunch combo.
Because I didn’t have a ton of work to do for the rest of the day today, I scheduled two coffee chats with two of the other designers in Pivot & Pilot; Jiaan and Lindsey. We talked about their design careers and any tips they had about the industry. It was so great getting to talk to them one-on-one! I learned a lot of valuable advice 🙂
