I was a Marketing and Design Intern for Apex. My responsibility was designing materials the company could use to improve its SEO and visual identity. Some examples I designed over the summer included motion graphics, presentation slides, a proposal for a website redesign, and a 2-minute informative video.
As a Research Assistant in the Art, Art History, and Design Department, my roles/responsibilities were to build wooden stretchers, stretch them with canvas, and prep them with gesso for painting for a professor of mine.
I was the Graphic Design/Pre-Press Intern at Foresight Group. For the first half of the summer, I moved every two weeks between the two buildings (Foresight Group and Foresight SuperSign), and for the second half, I settled over at Foresight SuperSign. I worked in the Pre-Press department at Foresight Group editing files and preparing them for print. At SuperSign, I worked on a larger scale preparing existing and new files for print.
This summer I had the amazing opportunity to work as a Photography Intern at Jimmy John's Field in Utica, MI. My responsibility as part of the media team was to provide coverage of the baseball games, with the mindset of supporting the positive, family atmosphere Jimmy John's Field strives to maintain. I would shoot for at least 7 innings, then edit and upload on-site so the media team could post immediately after the game ended. My photos would then be posted on Facebook, and Instagram, and used for print content and press releases.
I was a wildlife rehab assistant at Nottingham Nature Nook. My duties were to help feed, medicate, and exercise the wildlife we'd taken in for rehabilitation along with a pamphlet to help advertise the center. I got a lot of hands-on experience with animal care, maintenance, and advertisement.
I was a graphic design intern for Cardinal Rule Press. I helped create social media posts for book launches, events, webinar panels, and more. I also created for-print templates for their sister, nonprofit company—Making Spirits Bright—such as brochures and teacher events for their free book fairs. Additionally, I worked collaboratively with my fellow design and editorial interns to create a kid's menu and reader's guide for their upcoming book release.
As an art director at Ivy House in Brooklyn, NY, most of my work was making promotional flyers to let people know about the studio and the events there such as free music events, and markets to name a few. I also took some videos and pictures of the studio and some events there, and then made a short video with the videos that I took during the internship.
I was an Internal Email Marketing & Promotions Specialist for Birchwood Farms Country Club in Harbor Springs, MI. I would produce and execute all Club departmental email campaigns, including building emails, copywriting, quality assurance, and scheduling to drive member engagement in club activities and events throughout the 2024 summer season.
I was an intern/writer with METAL Magazine who wrote interviews and reviews of singles, albums, EPs, and LPs that musicians were planning on releasing. I had to schedule and perform a live interview over Zoom with one of the bands I wrote interview questions for. I researched and wrote proposals for possible new articles, reviews, or interviews for upcoming projects.
For my editorial writing internship at The Sun Times, I was responsible for receiving and posting obituaries, press releases, and public notices online on our website, as well as formatting and submitting them for physical prints each week. I also was assigned a variety of articles to write each week, which potentially included interviews with people. In addition to posting and writing articles, I also proof-read the draft of three separate printed papers to look for errors.