BLOGS DESK
From July to August of 2018, I had the pleasure of interning in various departments of Dawn.com. My first position was as a graphic design intern at the Blogs desk, where I designed graphics and gifs to accompany articles, as well as graphics for some videos.
Below is some of my work from my time at the Blogs desk.
1. Pakistan's Bureaucracy
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1418959
2. Pakistan on FATF's Grey list
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1418143
3. What is an MNA/MPA's Job?
For this piece, I made some graphics, a gif, and other things that were used in the accompanying video.
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1417468/elections-101-what-are-your-mpas-and-mnas-actually-meant-to-do
3. Follow up: What is an MNA/MPA's Job?
There was a follow-up piece for the MNA/MPA article, so I maintained similar elements from the previous design.
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1419612
4. Pakistan's Fear of Opioids
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1417903
5. Sharif's Verdict
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1419188
6. Provincial Analysis
The Balochistan and Sindh pieces are up, other will be published soon.
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1421117
7. Football Analysis
The article hasn't been published (yet), but I wanted to feature the gif.
NEWS DESK
I also did some work for the News Desk at Dawn.com, here's some of the work I got to do
1. Election Rigging
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1416841 AND the accompanying Urdu article here: https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1082927
2. Demarcation In Pakistan
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1417690/elections-101-what-is-delimitation-and-why-does-it-matter
3. What is the ECP's Job?
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1411993 AND the accompanying Urdu article here: https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1083245
4. How to Vote
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1411994/election-101-how-to-cast-your-vote-on-july-25-simplified
And that's most of the work! You can find (almost) all of my work for dawn.com here: https://www.dawn.com/search?cx=partner-pub-8258178831251847%3A5337004877&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=mushba+said
Some graphics I made myself, others can be credited to freepik.com and flaticons.com which I modified or used as is. No copyright infringement was intended, and I did not gain any financial benefit from this work.
POST-INTERNSHIP WORK
I'm happy to say that even after my internship finished at Dawn.com, the affiliation has continued in the form of various freelance projects. Here are some of my favourites1. The Meanings of Naya
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1499816
main header illustration
thumbnail design
2. Education Policy
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1500805
3. Economic Recap 2018
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1452810/these-19-developments-shaped-pakistans-economic-future-in-2018
4. National News Review 2019
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1525254/2019-in-review-who-made-news-in-pakistan
5. Heroes In the Fight Against COVID
Read the article here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1555594
6. 2020 Year-ender Header Illustrations
2020 was our third year partnering up for year-ender pieces. This year, I wanted to rely less on photo effects and make use of varied visual elements like text and icons
7. 2021 Year-ender articles
For this year, I wanted to try and create a more cohesive theme for all the year-ender article headers. We decided to go with a collage style theme as it gave room to create the visuals each writer wanted while still giving me leeway to keep things together.
