Alice's DPS

Reflecting on my 3 month internship experience at the Evening Standard internship, overall I think it was a very rewarding experience and left with a lot of experience gained. It taught me quite a lot about what kind of design I want to specialise in as well as what kind of work I would prefer…

27/2/23: First time working on a live page by myself After working on a live page (Londoner’s Diary) for the first time the week prior, I took it upon myself to try and do it by myself. That day, the editor was in the office, and I was sat away from the other designers, so…

20/2/23: First time working on a live page – Londoner’s Diary A critical incident or major learning event during my time at the Evening Standard was during week 7 on Monday, when I had the chance to work on a live newspaper page in the morning. The Evening Standard has a segment each day called…

After finishing my internship, some of my final thoughts on the experience was that it was a rewarding and invaluable work placement. Because it was my first time in a design studio I learnt a lot about the way a studio works, the pace of it, and team dynamics. My most positive take away from…

Being resilient when faced with a task I wasn’t sure how to do, under time pressure In this past week, the team at D&P were working on a project for their client Antalis, the paper distributor and manufacturer. Antalis had recently acquired Arjowiggins after the latter had to shut down. Antalis thus bought the entire…

Week 3 of my internship at D&P involved lots of work with photoshoots and photography edits, as well as preparing online marketing and social media posts At the beginning of the week on Monday it was shooting day for the Antalis Magazine. I headed in early to help pack up pieces for Rive Roshan at…

Day 1 Introduction to the studio and understanding how files and projects are arranged and stored on the company’s computers. Through their dropbox file system I learnt how important it is to record and store files in a systematic and organised way, so that everything can be uploaded and located easily, by all in the…