Thursday, March 20, 2008

My Internship Experience

Couple of weeks ago I had presentation about my internship experience. That was the first assignment for Design Analysis. I had to talk about my internship experience which I already did in India. I talked about the style of work there, problems occurred and how I solved the problem while I was working in the company. It was great to share my experience with my colleagues. I worked in Bangalore which is in the Southern part of India. Bangalore is one of the biggest city and major IT center in India. The company in which I worked was BRANDSYSTEMS. I worked around one year in that company. BRANDSYSTEMS mainly focus on Graphic Design, Web Design and 2D Animation. When I started hunting for my job, I understood that it’s very hard to get a job as a graphic designer with this qualification. At the end I was offered by a job from BRANDSYSTEMS. Still I remember my 1st day in BRANDSYSTEMS. I was very nervous. Many questions came up in my mind during that time. Where am I? How to start? How am I going to manage? In the short period of one year, I tried to acquire experience in designing, how to deal with customers, and how to manage my time more efficiently. I faced a lot of problems as fresher, while working in BRANDSYSTEMS. It was very difficult for me to cope up with the new environment. I got used to all this as time passed by. The most important problem I faced was the time limit. We had to really rush as they may ask us to submit the work in a short period of time. I had to work hard to finish my works on time. As a junior I was always worried about the quality of my works, especially about the customer satisfaction. Then I started to discuss with my colleagues as well as the clients. They gave a lot of suggestions. This helped a lot to improve the quality of works. At the beginning, there were also problems with printing, like mistakes with the measurements. My seniors helped me to improve on this.
The experience as a Graphic Designer helped me to get a broad and wide knowledge about graphic design. This helped me to recognize some basics mistakes. This improved my knowledge about the current trends and tastes which varies from place to place. This taught me how to handle various problems and situations.