Week 3 & 4

June 16, 2021 - Wed

Decided to combine two weeks into one blog post because unfortunately my grandmother passed away on the 4th and I took some time off to help and be with my family.

Last week I was able to talk to Gabbie about the details for the Research Podcast thumbnails! Super exciting but I’m just awaiting the reference photos of the first few guests and then I can draw up a proper schedule.

I’ve been chugging along on the Kubernetes coloring book.

I’ve been coming up with some designs for the Open Studio Swag t shirt contest! I got feedback from Mo about which ones were stronger and these two were part of the sketch phase. I just need to make a vector file of both of them for Friday. But some other interns said the sketchiness of the tree one is charming so I might try and see if I can keep that when I convert it.

I’ve also been doing a lot of small housekeeping things, like adding a signature to my Gmail finally, going into Workday, and adding a personal statement as well as skills. I talked with Joe from the talent acquisition team this week about a permanent job at Red Hat in September!

I worked on the new pride fedora logo and I came up with these below but honestly, they were relatively simple. Going over the previous ticket there was some debate about how much could be done with the logo, and my skills with Inkscape are still slowwwww and simple since I use it for drawing the majority of the time. Honestly, the worst thing is when you know it’s possible to do something in a program but not sure how, and Google is your best friend. But the ticket is here and Mo has come up with some really great variations!

Have a great rest of your work this week!

-Madeline

Summer Intern Restart Up

Red Hat Internship Round 2 for Summer 2021 is officially under way! Last summer it was a new and fairly wild time especially with covid being fully remote and starting at Red Hat. But this first week actually included a four day weekend, as well as a lot of new hire intern orientation meetings. Some open source, kubernetes, and red hat products bootcamps also sprinkled in there.

In between meetings and bootcamps I’ve been going over how much of the coloring book to get done so I can finish as much as possible by the end of June- and I’ve attached below one of the pages I completed this week.

This summer I’m working on some illustrations for the Red Hat Research Team Podcast, as well as a comic strip to explain open source licensing to creatives (to help make the case for them to open license their work). As well as the element matrix wallpaper which I’ve been trying to reformat so the login bubble that will go in the middle wont cover too much of the design.

I’m attending design team meetings as well as Open Studio team meetings and finally getting in the feel of being back full time! Happy new month and Happy Pride!

-Madeline

Finished Storyboards!

First off the storyboards for the Knative coloring book, all 20 pages are all done! 🥳 Click here to read them all together in a pdf!

My feelings are captured similarly in this high five session going on between Snow White and the Dwarves!

On Monday I wrapped up the last details on the pages and on Tuesday we had two meetings with our amazing technical reviewers who helped make sure the script was accurate and gave the thumbs up towards the images that correlated with the script! It was really amazing hearing some feedback face to face from people besides my family.

I also came up with a few logo ideas for the Nest logo, which is related to Flock I believe. A lot of logo design is just small changes and as your keep drawing and designing, you keep getting ideas!

I also attended an executive talk this week which was really interesting to listen to. I believe it was by DeLisa Alexander (Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer) and hearing about her career track and how she encouraged working for cool places who actually took listened to your demands was an important thing to remember.

Next things on the immediate to do for the workday list include:

1. Finish making the changes for the script and panels

2. Compile all the selfies from the technical reviewers into cartoon faces for their credit page

3. Play around with vector-izing stuff finally!

On the less immediate personal to do list for the three day weekend:

1. This one’s actually related to work. There’s an intern video challenge that needs to be submitted by Monday at 5pm, and I do love making videos! It only has to be one minute long and I finally have an idea for the prompt which is “school spirit”. I think I’m going to make a promotional video for a made up college. We shall see!

2. Lately in the intern bootcamps and just with other interns, we have discussed successful linkedin profiles and other social media type profiles. It has made me realize now more then ever, that I need to make some professional icons and banners for my various platforms that make it clear to my audience I am a ✨ professional artist ✨ haha

3. Gonna make a pavlova tomorrow because I dream of sweet sugary desserts.