January 2012
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October 2011
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July 2011
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its been a while
life’s been busy. if i could send posts from my mind that would be great. i think about what i want to write alot but when it comes to actually sitting down and typing it out thats when time gets away from me. but i’m here, and things have been going well. let’s recap whats been going on.
interning has been going great. some of the things i’ve worked on for the...
May 2011
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adventures of intern 2
its been over a month, i just realized, since i’ve told about my adventures as intern 2. hmmm…whats been going on….
well if you didn’t know yet, us interns have a desk in cubicle now. we have a lovely mac (named mac, by intern 1). we got a phone, so we get calls now. we stuck splats to our wall, then we were just informed last week that the walls were just painted, so i...
April 2011
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intern 2 (aka intern bravo)
i’ve completely lost track of time. so i’ve ended week 3 which is where i left off, completed weeks 4 and 5, and started week 6.
week 3 finished up well. i can now say what we did with the airheads dough. we had someone step in it to make footprints. we then photographed the footprints and i spent pretty much the rest of the week editing them in photoshop to be different colors.
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March 2011
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week 2 and onto week 3
so week 2 went by unspoken about…oops. i’m not perfect..
week 2 as intern 2 was spent working on floor graphics, waiting on emails, hanging posters, working with other other intern (dan in manufacturing), playing event photographer, and touring the factory!
touring the factory: was awesome! i felt like i was on the food network, i had a “behind the scenes” all inclusive...
Watchi really enjoyed this. just wanted to share it as well. thanks adrian :)
adriandalvarez:
David Carson on Design + Discovery
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day 3
a few days behind on this one, but day three was wednesday.
i worked on the graphics for the plant floor and walls only to find out that i have to start over on them, but that’s actually ok. i also found out that i get to pick what vinyl i want the graphics cut out of and i think i get to do the installation of them. which i am weirdly really excited about.
i also started trying to get in...
Dear Design Students
adriandalvarez:
Breathe Design, Eat Design, Sleep Design.
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day 2
first i have some corrections from yesterdays post. the files were not sent directly to printing for various reasons but i did get to drop them off at the printer today. and the posters that are being printed were not originally going to be hung in the manufacturing plant but just as a display for the celebration of 10 years as pvm but will now most likely be going to the plant after that is...
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day 1 as intern 2
today i started my internship at perfetti van melle, being a design intern for deidre. i have wanted this internship for over a year now. the first day went well, and i was thrown into work right away. my first project was resizing some illustrator poster files to be printed on foam core that will be hung in the manufacturing plant. after i resized them today they were sent directly to be printed....
July 2010
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designer high
“designer high: the feeling you get from being in a room of professional designers when you realize that everyone shares the same thinking as you do, and is looking at the same typography and design elements, and questioning and thinking the same things. a rush of adrenaline that you gives you a slight dizzy feeling and brings a smile to your face.”
designer high is a term i came up...
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leslie
hi everyone!
i am leslie. i went to school for graphic design at raymond walters college which is part of the university of cincinnati. before i went to design school, i received an associates degree in general business from raymond walters. i spend days critiquing design, typography, and cakes. yes, cakes. not only am i a designer, i am also a cake decorator. aside from designing and decorating...