sparty says

In my junior year of college, I was approached with an internship opportunity, operating a small campus blog with the witty title after the campus mascot: Sparty Says. It was designed with the purpose to ‘keep students in the know about Castleton’ as the byline in the site states. The position entailed creating posts based on weekly events emailed to the blog and then compiling them into a weekly email that was sent to the entire university which was initially as daunting as it sounds. Time passed and gradually my confidence grew. I was requesting permission to add new tabs to the blog, to create buttons, to redesign the weekly email format and eventually reaching out to clubs all with the site’s purpose in mind, anything and everything I could conceive to better the student’s experience. This was but the beginning of my escapade. Two and half years later, I had produced four seasonal headers for the blog (featured below), was using my graphic design skills to create weekly graphics for posts and had even managed to fashion an Instagram account for Sparty Says. Sparty Says served a vital role in enabling my skills to blossom in a professional setting and was essential to my discovery of the gratification of graphic design as a medium with which to help others.