Marketing Assistant, Graphic Designer, Motion Graphics
Applied Biological Materials (abm) is a Canadian company, located in Richmond, BC, that is constantly on the lookout for the latest innovations for life science research and drug development. I did a four month co-op for them during Spring 2016. During the co-op, I had a chance to focuse designing new brochures and taking pictures for promotional proposes, animating, filmeing and editing promotional videos and assisting in production of new pages (including coding using PHP and HTML).
Doing a co-op at Applied Biological Materials has taught me quite a bit. It was the first time I was able to learn the skills I have used in a real work environment. I also became a stronger Motion Graphic designer and learned quite a bit about science. My biggest challenge was understanding the terms as I did not have a science background. I often had to do a research about those terms or ask my supervisors for a better clarification. Because I had another designer working alongside me, I found that we sometimes bounced ideas with each other in order to get better results and more creativity. When we didn’t do it, I was able to work on my own and explore myself as a designer.