Week 2

As the progression of the week went by, I sat by still drawing out templates in various themes for the company. These in turn were used for upcoming designs for teams which under private conditions, were not allowed by me to publicize before the teams get to see them. However, I managed to see them in the Brookes Bluebirds design team, which is the wings at the back of the uniform.

On Thursday and Friday, I was asked to work on a new project, which was to design mesh shorts to be put up on the website for people to pick and choose. The entire market profit of All Star Nation is actually focused on team putting in specific orders for their members in their own team names. This was a new was to branch out into selling individual pieces to the public to enjoy without buying in bulk. The whole idea of it was for it to be very open ended. And with no client or design in mind, I could really pour into my creative process. I had to work with clipping masks between each layers to make sure that the seams match up and the proposals will mirror the printing process.

Most of the designs which you see are generated from the computer or picked from the templates which I've done beforehand. These were a couple of examples that I came up with.

Throughout the week, there were many uniforms that came in that the clients wanted photos of. As the job of the only female in the office, it's also my intern job to try on the fit of the uniforms.

The more boring things I've done in the office would be standard paperwork. It's a job of  mine to transfer information from the document sent by the printing company into the documents that we would send out to the clients. When new uniforms come in from shipping, it's also partly my duty to sort through loose threads, sizes, and quantity before being shipped off to their new owners. I've made errands to the post office to psot sample t-shirts to places like Kent to Egypt, as well as sampled a couple of shorts that have errors in them, so it gives us a better idea of how to fix it as a whole.

I feel that interning in a small company, the boring jobs have to be passed on because more important things have to be done. I don't feel that the standard administration work is something beneath me because everything I take home becomes a great learning process.

Overall the experience has been slightly exhausting considering I go into work everyday from 9am to 5pm, but I still love it. Gwen's Taiwanese mum makes me delicious free Asian dinners so I get to go home happy and full almost every night of the week!

Gwen's mum has also taught me how to knit! Which is the coolest thing ever, I would say. I didn't think that knitting would be part of my job during lunch hours, but I'm having the best time of my life!