This was my final full 4 day week at Danica, things have slowed down now. But just like real work that happens, so I have been mainly asking if others need an extra hand or some help on a project. On Monday I handed in a packaging update, and I passed it onto another person to work on. I finished some final packaging update edits I needed to do and worked on a typographic Swedish sponge cloth design for Ecologie under Danica.
I also helped someone out on a project which was a website banner ad for Mothers day. What is really nice is whenever the team needs feedback or help we can post our work on basecamp under different project sections and people are pretty fast at responding. I would say so far using basecamp and slack for communication has been pretty good and that is also where tasks are assigned and project briefs are assigned too. I guess what I realized through this process is that project briefs aren’t formatted exactly like school and sometimes the information will be in different places or you will have to ask for more clarity but I suppose that is the transition from school to work.
I also worked on a quick packaging template design for someone, and on Wednesday handed in my final surface design project which was the typographic design for Swedish sponge cloth. For all my work I have been using my sketchbook, pencils, watercolor, illustrator, procreate, wacom tablet, and photoshop. Out of all the programs I probably used illustrator and InDesign the most so this was definitely a learning curve with illustrator and I realized how much I need to learn still regarding shortcuts and how to work quickly and efficiently. I actually realized with my final surface design project I didn’t hand it in properly, which I found out Wednesday night so I handed it in on Thursday morning. I hadn’t placed the actual artwork into the template but used a jpeg instead. Luckily we had wiggle room with time so it wasn’t an issue but never be afraid to ask more questions and clarity because sometimes miscommunication can happen even when you think you know what your doing it never hurts to double-check your work.
Lastly, I helped a few other co-workers out on little assignments, such as Pinterest image saving and uploading to server and Pinterest hunting for image inspiration and word ideas for the taro card project. And at the end of my Thursday I was working on a few edits for the internal Danica cards before I put them on the server. The cherry on top for this week was a zoom event we had for people in the Danica office, I attended the Woman in Beer History event which was very interesting learning about how influential and prominent women were in the beer world. It was really nice to just hang out with my co-workers and have an awesome host for the event. Even through the pandemic, you can still manage to have fun, even on zoom.
Stay tuned for my last two days at Danica 🙂
This is what a packaging template can look like and where all the information will be replaced.
This was the Mothers Day banner ad for website I was working on.
This was the taro card inspiration I was adding to.
This is a sample of the internal cards I am editing.
