First Week Back

During the holidays we released our intern DISCoook Book that I had the honour of putting together! Which you can download here: Download our DISCoook Book here

It was a great project, I learnt a lot about InDesign and ways to manage myself with time, a very unhealthy way is to down a whole can of Monster and double your work load, but I don’t suggest this because I’m still recovering from how much it ruined my sleep schedule. In all honesty it was something I wasn’t experienced with but I wanted to get better at and I’m glad I was chosen for the project and got it finished just in time! I’m also proud of all the interns and staff that submitted recipes, we had many snacks that week.

On Monday at DISC we presented the tasks we had to do over the holidays, one was to create a video of anything that happened during the holiday, mine was an announcement for an upcoming project which will be available on my home page soon! The other thing we had to do was design DISC t-shirts, here’s my designs and the one on the black and white t-shirts was the favourite among the other interns and staff (it’s also my favourite).

Cookbook, Video and SEND Board

During this week I began putting together everyone’s recipes into one cook book which I have named The DISCoook Book (with 3 o’s), hoping to get that done sometime this week, there’s a lot of work to go into it and it’s my first time using InDesign properly. Very excited to work more on that this week.

On Tuesday DISC wanted to make a ‘Day of an Intern’ video and I was chosen as the intern (most likely due to my bright hair matching the DISC logo), it was quite fun, had a camera follow me all day from the moment I came off the bus and the other interns got a good laugh out of it. I also was interviewed at the end which I was a little nervous because I’ve only just started being comfortable talking to a camera but I think it went good. At the end of the day a random drunk man followed me from the DISC building to my bus stop trying to talk to me…it was odd but I was able to find security in the bus station and stayed in sight of them until the guy left.

Today was full of nerves for me, I had a meeting to meet a client I’ll be working with and I’ve got to begin working on a logo for them on Wednesday most likely. After lunch we had our SEND Board meeting to show the work me, Toby and the other interns have done for the Local Offer, Ezra and I presented it, I’ve never presented in front of so many people before so it was has been on my mind all week but it went fantastic and I believe everyone liked our work, I’m proud of everyone involved in the project and I can finally sleep stress free tonight. Thank you Clare for the prep work, you’re amazing! (I know you’ll be reading this).

Meetings & Accessibilty

This week has been less art and physical work but more meetings, conversations about future projects and personal life updates (plus many accessibility issues).

On Wednesday I presented part of a meeting about the Local

Offer project, it went super well and we have a meeting next Thursday to present the project to the SEND board. The rest of the day was spent showing the whole building and visitors the Local Offer work as everyone was curious to hear about it (the truth is Ezra and Seamus just wanted to show off mine and Toby's work, they're just proud).

Today I mainly worked on my section for our DISC intern cook book, my plan is to make mine as a comic:

To end things today, my adventure began at lunch when a lift ride to get downstairs took me 5 minutes, it was a 3 minute wait, then when I was in the lift to go down to the bottom floor from the first floor, I went up to the fifth floor, then the seventh, then eleventh… 2 minutes to get down to my floor.