#jennicka

Jennicka Jumpscare

I decided to try designing a ROTTMNT vers. of Jennicka. I think it should be noted that I haven't watched Rise yet, so I should probably get on that sometime soon.

(Also, ignore how melancholy she looks in most of them, that was an accident.)

A little information about her under the cut.

Internship - Dieckertschmidt (Berlin, Germany) | Jennicka Sapigao 

First and foremost, the people in the agency were really welcoming and that they treated me as if I have been working there for a long time. I am grateful to the amount of responsibilities and opportunities they have given me, because I really learnt how I can handle myself as designer working with clients through the accounting team and internally with the other creatives and the founders.

I also gained confidence in working with videos, applying the knowledge I have learnt in a 10-day course. This I would like to push forward in my final year.

Placement Tasks

Bild and Bild am Sonntag, etc.

The tasks for Bild, Bild am Sonntag and its other sub-brands are mainly on a business-to-business design, advertising and marketing solutions. The tabloid newspaper wants to ecourage more potential companies and services to book ads with them.

Die Grünen

“Alliance ‘90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party (founded in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (founded during the Revolution of 1989–1990 in East Germany) in 1993.”

The agency won the pitch in creating all advertising and marketing materials for Die Grünen for the upcming Berlin elections on the 18th of September.

I think that the tasks I performed under Die Grünen has been the most influential to me in my three-month stay with the agency. I really had the chance to see ideas pitched internally, receive feedback from the two highly experienced founders of the company, develop under tight deadlines, client presentations and submissions for the final production companies.

Design outcomes I have produced for Die Grünen are as follows:

10-second videos for TV and the U-Bahn’s Berliner Fenster,

Information mailing materials for households all over Berlin;

Poster advertisings;

Design mock-ups for car branding;

15-second online banners.

Amazon

The tasks for amazon were more on developing ideas has already been generated London agency for the UK Audience. The client approached dieckertschmidt to tailor the visual elements of the idea to be applied in three other european countries (i.e. Germany, Spain and France).

Internship - Wieden+Kennedy (New Delhi, India) | Jennicka Sapigao 

Before arriving in India, one project that I was eager to be a part of was the government initiative called ‘Make in India’. The project is about showcasing the various industries that operates in India. When we arrived, we were lucky enough to be there just in time for one of their busiest times of the year - ‘Make in India Week’. Our first main task was to create stencil designs. Thierry and I, together with a graduate intern from CSM created simple illustrations that will be hand painted by the Bollywood Art Project on to public spaces within Mumbai (i.e. walls, roads, pavements, etc.) for the week-long event.For our second main task, we had to translate powerpoint presentations brimming with statistical data about the growth and development of eight focused sectors into designed documents. The greatest challenge of this task was that each presentation was comprised of an average of 35 pages, 15 of which are identical for every sector. The rest contains various data that needed reconstructing and redesigning to better understand its content and message.Some minimal tasks we did were creating online marketing designs for ‘Make in India Week’ and during the ‘Republic Day’ last January 2016.

India in itself has already captured my excitement, and I am grateful having been able to intern in such a vibrant country. I particularly love the fact that culture is still present and not as an option compared to my birth country – the Philippines.

My experience working for a renowned advertising agency like Wieden+Kennedy is a mixture of emotions. Firstly, majority of the people we worked with were helpful in explaining to us how some aspects of the advertising industry operate. We were also warmly welcomed by them and were treated as professional designers. Secondly, Thierry and I realised that we have to be proactive in seeking work within the office and really make ourselves known that we are available to assist on projects. Lastly, like most creative industries, deadlines are tight. For us to be able to submit design tasks on time, we had to work late nights, early mornings, and even weekends.

Intership - Port Magazine (London, UK) | Jennicka Sapigao

I produced illustration content for two of their Whiskey Week articles. One article was about four favourite whiskey recommendations by London’s oldest whiskey shop – Milroy’s of Soho. The bottle illustrations were hand drawn with black ink and were digitally rendered with watercolour textures. 

http://www.port-magazine.com/food-drink/milroys-of-soho-four-essential-whiskies/

The other article that was not approved to be published online was a breakdown of the whiskey-making process. I constructed single image illustrations of each of the steps of the process. My only restriction for this brief was to match my illustration style with Port’s clean and well designed visual language, whilst matching it to the specific article content.

Freelance Work - JLL (London, UK) | Jennicka Sapigao

Having worked with JLL in 2014, I was fortunate enough to have been invited to apply and be selected again for both the Summer and Autumn term of 2015. I worked on two proposal pitches, namely JLL Agri-Consultancy and JLL Flex, creating the brand+identity and digital presentations.

What I enjoy the most working with JLL is the variety of ideas generated by their staff in making their company thrive in the constantly changing demands of the real estate industry.

The teams I worked with at JLL were also confident in giving me the creative freedom to visualise their ideas. My only issue would be the lack of a unified feedback from the members of the team before they impart any changes that needed to be made.

These projects have thought me alot how to communicate my ideas to clients who don’t understand design in a deeper sense in simple terms that would make sense to them.