Animus Home

Graphic designer (2016 Oct—2017 Mar)

At MINC, Malmö

Took part in user experience design, illustration and marketing. Worked with copy editing, documentation and the graphics manual.

I spent about a half a year with Animus Home and I got to learn a lot while doing lots of practical work. What follows in no particular order are things that I have done or worked with that I learnt more from.

Acquired knowledge or skills

• Copy editing and translating text from Swedish to English.
• A lot of copy editing, actually. Some of it is technical writing.
• Understanding graphics manuals, instruction leaflets and instructive illustrations.
• Understanding documentation (knowledge bases too) and branding.
• Working with HTML, CSS and JS. Widely ranges from reading Google Forms into a page to CSS animations.
• Working with printed materials from flyers to packaging.
• Graphic design of an mobile app icon. Understanding logotype design.
• The graphic design of multiple UI icons.
• Wireframes and tutorials.
• Motion graphics (very briefly).
• How to do a good voice over (also super briefly).
• A lot of illustrative work and knowing how to deal with a large workload.
• Retouching and generating images to use for social media, branding, marketing and anything else.
• Creating copy for blog posts over the span of multiple days.
• Strengthened my knowledge over user experience flow.
• Strengthened my understanding of software development.

Due to the nature of the content I am unable to show examples or even talk about these more specifically. But I can safely say that I have grown into my roles very nicely and can happily share some of what I have done privately (again, there are some limits to what I may show).

Graphics Manual

Here are all the pages to the Graphics Manual I was tasked to create.