10 Design an Elevator Pitch Visual
Purpose
If you had to explain your team’s work in one visual, like a social media image, what would it look like? Creating a visual brief description of your internship work (elevator pitch) will help you communicate your internship work clearly and in a way anyone can understand. Visuals give you more flexibility to show and explain your work in more than just words.
This assignment will help you practice making decisions on what information you’ll share and how you’ll share it to be ready for the decisions you’ll make for the showcase presentation. You will use the elevator pitch you wrote on the fall discussion board. Make sure you edit based on the feedback from your peers!
Instructions
Create a visual or graphic to describe your internship work. Include graphics, drawings, or creative design to create an elevator pitch image that is easily read and visually pleasing. Use your written responses from the fall discussion board as a starting point for the wording and add design elements and images to support the words. You answered these questions:
- What is the goal (or mission or purpose) of your internship site’s work or research? This should be one sentence.
- Why does this work matter? Who does it impact? What do they hope will happen as a result of the work? Pick one of those questions, write one sentence.
- Share one statistic, fun fact, did you know, or other piece of information about your internship topic/work that makes us say “wow!” and want to read more about what your internship team does.
There are no size requirements; aim for something large enough to read but small enough for social media or a website. We recommend a square shape if you plan to post on Instagram. You will need to edit your wording to be bullet points, less formal, incomplete sentences, or use bold font to draw attention to the most important ideas. This will make it easier to read and to find the key concepts on your image. If you’re excited about what you wrote, you can just include that right on your ePortfolio but it’s too much for an image!
Here are some design tools to choose from:
- Need design help or templates to easily customize? Try Canva or Piktochart.
- Comfortable with tech and design and prefer to have full creative control? Try PowerPoint or Google Slides, or any other digital design creator you may prefer such as Adobe.
- Need stock photos to add? Access Adobe Stock photos (sign in using your @iu.edu email for the free university access).
