2023
Timeline / 10 WeeksTools / InDesignTeam / Natalie O’Rourke
It Takes A Village is designed to be a quarterly publication. Other topics in the series would include application to the program, graduation, and building a portfolio. Read the full first issue here.
The mobile companion ensures every cohort receives up-to-date info, by allowing students to input their personal experiences. In a short survey, participants see the statistics update in real time as they compare their story to others'.
Before creating our broadsheet, we conducted research as a class on student internship experiences by analyzing job listings from online databases like LinkedIn and Indeed. With a strong foundation of quantitative data, Natalie and I chose to conduct additional interviews and put out an anonymous survey to gather more stories from the student body. We noticed that students' experiences were extremely varied, making it difficult to summarize the internship application process to classmates, friends, and family.
In our initial designs, we proposed a publication targeted specifically at parents and caretakers; However, we realized that the primary audience for this internship info is students so while our first issue speaks primarily to students, it also has information that parents and peers would find helpful. Our final solution has a strong brand system that can adapt to the ever-changing database of UW Design information, to best help future generations of designers.