Working at Magma

2016 | 2017 October - June (9 months)

Main role: Designer (Intership)

Secondary role: IT

Company

  • Magma Cultura (cultural sector)
  • Delegations in Madrid, Barcelona and France
  • +900 employees

Activities

  • Administration, organization of public events
  • Services and consultancy for private or public entities (museums, companies..)

Context

  • I was the only designer at the company
  • At the offices we were about 30 employees
  • I worked during 9 months (intership), during this time I participated in big projects while working at the same time in small projects
A layout document for Casa Mahou

My role

Main graphic designer and IT

  • Online and offline designer
  • Layout document designer
  • Support designer in "La Noche de los Libros 2017"
  • IT in Madrid, the previous technician left the company, so I asummed his role

I worked for

Departments

  • Educaixa, El arte de educar, Prado Museum (Designer)
  • Fundación Mapfre (Layout document designer)
  • Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara,Turismo (Designer)
  • Circe Du Soleil (Support IT)
  • Magma (Designer, IT)

Events - Projects

  • "De poesia por Getafe 2017" (Layout document designer)
  • "Guadalajara y Accion, 2017" (Main designer, ads, documents, posters...)
  • "La noche de los Libros, 2017" Madrid (Support designer, coordinator)
  • "Casa Mahou" Consultancy (Graphic designer)
Main poster of the public event, Guadalajara y acción 2017
Main poster of the public event, Guadalajara y acción 2017

Design competences acquired

  • Responsability at every design stage
  • Ability to work in parallel projects while mantaining quality
  • Ability to understand non-designers, I was the only designer at the company
  • Ability to asume that some design pieces will never see the light

Workflow competences acquired

  • As there was so much workload I polished my management skills and I learned to use automation
  • Ability to work in a constant changing enviroment, when you work with public institutions there are a lot of changes derived from politics, also organization of events can be very complex and affect design pieces

Facing problems

Being the only designer

  • Due to I was the only designer, I found myself in constant stream of work but sometimes with free time between projects.
  • I had to learn and interpret which really my team mates wanted, they were not from the desing world.
  • I had to learn everything on my own as I could't reach any superior designer to ask questions. This served me to acquire a fearless approach to learn new tools and techniques.

Conclusions

About the job position

  • I helped my team mates when they were meeting big work load and I was free.
  • I learnt to prioritize and to differentiate important tasks in the long term.
  • I learnt the best approach to meet deadlines is to stay organized.

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