So, you’ve landed yourself an internship — congrats! You’re on the path to becoming a better designer, and for that, I salute you. Here's a bunch of tips to help you make the most of your design internship and, equally important, not annoy the studio who’ve bravely taken you on.

Abandoning your sense of safety, and embarking on 5 months of travel as, effectively, a homeless person with two backpacks, will teach you a fair bit in a short amount of time.

I hope you are well. And not in the generic and unengaged way that we experience from day to day, but in a true and strangely powerful way. But why would I care, I'm sure you're wondering. I don't even know you.

Imposter Syndrome is a prevalent issue in and outside of the design industry, infecting the hearts of the ambitious. I've encountered it numerous times across my career, both for commercial and non-commercial projects. It has crushed my excitement and motivation, dissuading me from one opportunity after another, and has never failed at informing me of how egotistical, ill-knowledgable, and naïve I am to believe myself worthy of doing 'X'. It is a plague of the mind that often begins from logical and well-meant investigation before mutating into a heavy smothering cloak of doubt.