AAMBC

Developing social media branding during a summer internship

African Americans on the Move Book Club (more commonly known as AAMBC), is a nonprofit organization working to promote and support black creatives within the writing industry. They host events such as their yearly AAMBC Awards show and Black Writers Weekend (BWW) and have a multitude of smaller groups that live underneath the AAMBC umbrella. I got the chance to work with this group virtually over the summer of 2022, and spent a good amount of my time making social media posts and templates, designing style guides and headers, and developing print collateral for the events happening over the ensuing months.

While the majority of my time was spent on socials I also worked with the company to develop a visual identity for the documentary they had in progress, sketched out some book cover compositions, and did a variety of smaller, more scattered tasks and requests such as editing text or making filler graphics for event posters.

Working with smaller companies is always such a joy, and the community they manage to uphold even from afar is always impressive. There’s nothing quite like your supervisor being your actual boss and the founder of the whole company itself, it’s quite surreal.