It Takes A Village is a quarterly publication that provides resources, tips, and tricks through statistics and gathered anecdotes to help students feel more supported during the stressful internship application process.

Through a class survey as well as self conducted interviews we found that Design students at UW often don’t know what resources they have available to them or don’t know how to ask their supporters for help. Sarah and I designed a broadsheet that aims to inform and comfort stressed college students.

It Takes A Village, explores statistics surrounding what students’ support system might look like, what should be expected from the process in each phase, and some alternatives if one discovers that the internship route isn’t for them.

Each statistic is paired with a comforting blurb meant to ease anxiety. The internship application process doesn’t have to be intimidating and there is no “right” way to do it. Success looks different to each student, our data is meant to inform how they decide to proceed.

The broadsheet is designed to be a quartly publication created by School of Art Advising Center to tackle different challenges that design students may come across. We produced covers for the application into the UW Design Program, Portfolio Building, and Graduation. 

Our mobile companion is the perfect method for gathering data for upcoming issues as well as distributing current issues. With a mobile & web adaptation students can complete surveys to help contribute to future topics!

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