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Hi y’all! My name is Camryn Ciancia
and I am a senior WLP major
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with a concentration in publishing
and I’m graduating in December.
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This past summer I interned at Charlesbridge Publishing
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as their children’s design intern.
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After lots of searching,
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I found my internship with Charlesbridge through their website.
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I started going through
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different publishers’ websites
directly, and that’s where
I saw the listing.
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And I decided on this internship
because I thought
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it’d be really great opportunity
for me to develop my design skills
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a little bit further and kind of see
a different side of publishing
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that I wasn’t so sure of at that point.
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There were some days where I was doing a lot of Photoshop work.
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There are other days when
I was searching
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for new illustrators
to work on newly acquired books.
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Some days I was helping
to do proof edits.
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It really just depended on what
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the other design and art team
members needed done that day.
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So I got to try out a bunch of different things, which was super fun and exciting for me.
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My favorite part of my
internship was getting
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to see the process of how these
books got made from
the more art side.
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Especially working with children’s books, that’s so important.
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I saw from the minute
that we acquired an illustrator
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to seeing the first sketches, to
then seeing some of the final paints.
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And I was really happy that I got to work on some of those books.
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Something that I really love
about publishing,
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especially for young people
looking to go into the industry,
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is that you can enter it
from many different skill sets.
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For example, I already had
some experience in the editorial
and marketing side
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and I had some design experience,
so I wanted to develop that further.
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Hence why I took a design internship.
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But of course,
if you want to go into design,
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it’s important to be knowledgeable
in pretty much the whole Adobe
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Suite from Photoshop and Illustrator
to especially InDesign,
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and just kind of having a
good, sound knowledge of
different design terms.
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But also the beauty of interning
is that you get to develop
these skills further
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and there are a bunch of people there to help you along the way.
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The best advice I could give for someone about to start
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an internship is to not be afraid
to ask questions.
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It’s better to learn and ask
questions than to try something
and do it wrong.
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These people are here to help you.
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You’re not a burden to them.
They hired you.
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You’re worthy to be there.
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And you should just try to make the
most out of your experience.
