Some changes to the plan, instead of 3-4 days at Moreton Island, it’s a whole week – from sunday the 19th to sunday the 26th. While on the Island we’re supposed to take photos, film and create a overall video of the activities, and a few more for each activity.

As a part of our internship, John suddenly wanted us at Moreton Island, last sunday, besides the whole week next week – to meet Brad and Karen, the owners of Tangatours, which are located on Moreton Island, and is offering activities as well.
We had a good talk with them about the website which we’re currently working on, they are keeping the logo, but we have decided that the colours (orange, blue, black and white) could work with the new design. So they’re keeping their identity, but changing the look.
We also went out on a fish feeding/look at the wrecks cruise, and i had the opportunity to snorkel amoung the ship wrecks out there, getting a really close look and feel to the ships.

This week we’ve been focused on the logo for “Adventure Moreton Island”, and having seen and taken pictures of the shipwreck, we could make some really great sketches. In the end, John decided on the word-play we made with “Adventure Moreton Island” = “Adventure More+on Island”, and one of the shipwreck drawings, just “more wrecked”.

We also showed Nicole the mockup for Tangatours, I made in Photoshop, which she liked, and showed her a couple of the fonts, we were considering; finally deciding for “Vera Sans” as body text, and “GoodDog” for the headlines.

The “GoodDog” font is funny, fresh, abit wacky, and perfect font for ung people and families looking for exciting activities.

Unfortunately Riverlife didn’t get to make a place for Wild Dolphin day spa, but the current Massage & Beauty in the island, will be made into Wild Dolphin Massage & Beauty, så they intent to use the logo, but perhaps skip the mini-website for it.

On these sketches you see 2 different boats, out of the 15, on Moreton Island. The one looking most like a ship, which we decided on, is Platypus II and the other one, is Groper.

With the second week here at Riverlife almost gone, i’m getting the feeling that times flies by, but we still have gotten a lot of work done.

We have spend time on deciding on website template design, using websitetravel.com. Websitetravel.com is a company John and Nicole here at Riverlife have decided on using for their new company websites. Wednesday we had arranged a meeting with an employee at Websitetravel, which Nicole apperently knew from earlier.

We had prepared for the meeting by listing all pro and con’s about the different templates, what we would like to change about the design, and which questions we had.
The meeting went very well , and Alex, from Websitetravel had most of the answers, only leaving a few she had to ask the developers about.

Apperently the template is very flexible, and most of the things we wanted to change, is possible. (Templates can be seen here: http://wt1.websitetravel.com/ )

We have decided on fonts, size and colours for both 2Australia.com.au website, and Tangatours.com.au, creating logo’s for 2Australia and a new place, Wild Dolphin Day Spa.

Especially the design of Wild Dolphin Day spa took us a large amount of time, as John was busy with meetings, and didn’t think any of the first ideas/sketches we had, was what he wanted – being really unsure about what he actually wanted.

We have already created some sketches to what the logo for Adventure Morton Island could look like – However John feels that the logo won’t be authentic unless we’ve seen the shipwreck we wanted for the logo, which is iconic for Moreton Island.

Fot this reason, we have arranged for sunday to go out and meet The owners, Brad and Karen of Tangalooma Resort (on Moreton Island), which contains the new company, Wild Dolphin Day Spa.

Also in week 9, we’re going to spend 3-4 days at Tangalooma Restort, filming and researching the place. More about that later.

Sketches for the logo:

So we’ve begun our first week of internship at Riverlife, located at Kangaroo point, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

The location is lovely – on the way down the river you see climbing rocks, lots of green nature and lots of people running, biking or on roller blades.

We begun with a staff meeting, where we got information regarding where the company stands now, what people are doing and what future plans they have for Riverlife, and the new company John and Nikole are starting up, called “2Australia” which is focused on backpackers.

On the pictures, both John and Nikole

are wearing Blue tshirts with Riverlife logo.

During the first week we’ve planned our work by using the SCRUM board together with a Gantt card. We’ve done a lot of reasearch on backpackers, and interviewed Nicole who’ve been working with backpackers for 2 years.

As 2Australia is a brand new company and website, we’ve begun creating some outcasts for the logo, and the new logo for Moreton Island, which is famous for shipwreck in which you can scuba dive.

We’ve also been granted the task of creating the map struckture and file naming for their image library.

This blog is written by Betina, for the purpose of documenting our trip to Brisbane, QLD, Australia where we will be for the internship period and Sidney, before heading home.

At this point we have almost decided for a place to live in Brisbane, and are doing our final preparations.