Graphic Communications Placement

Experience scope
Categories
Marketing strategy Media Visual artsSkills
graphic design branding design thinkingBring on one or more students from the Graphic Communications Program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic to work with you as virtual interns, in project-based experiences. Students will work on one or more projects of your choosing over the internship period, connecting with you as needed to apply their skills in graphic communications design processes, virtual design tools, and critical design thinking.
Learners
Deliverables will be agreed upon between the placement coordinator, the students and the partner organization.
Project Examples
Requirements
Students will apply their knowledge of print design, interactivity, and motion graphics with a focus on illustration, typography, wayfinding, information design and other opportunities with the following skillsets:
Graphic Communications
- Students engage in all aspects of the design process: research, analysis, iteration, prototyping, presentation and evaluation
- Observation, understanding visual forms, communicating visually, research skills, creative problem-solving, creative analysis
- Theory and practice, exploring cultural, historical, technical, ecological, and theoretical issues within design
- Composition, typography, visual rhetoric
- Editorial infographics, instructional graphics, and data visualization
- Art direction
- Design principles as they apply to different media such as ebooks, web sites, emags, print, etc.
- Information design, location-based media, book design
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience: