The Yankees season is officially over therefor Jaime Colon and I have decided on a schedule. I will be on sight mondays, thursdays and fridays. We are trying to do 25 hours a week to complete the requirements of the internship. There are some people who aren’t at the print shop so Colon really needs me to be there. I might do extra hours to help JLC Printing continue on its busy workflow. I hope all goes well and I will be there to assist the company on its success.

I have been working hard on my portfolio pieces trying to create great pieces. I am also working so its hard to do my school work but as a problem solver I have to make things happen. I am a firm believer when you have Faith and dedication you can achieve anything. Im taking a lot of days off of work just so I can make great work.

As of now Im creating two campaigns, one for Discover Financial Services and Dunkin Donuts. On my Discover project Im creating traditional credit cards and anti plastic credit services. Im finishing up the cards now, I have one more to do. On Dunkin Donuts I have some ideas I want to use but Im still thinking of my next moves. Its a lot of work trying to create great pieces but I want to show I can produce great work. I also want to show Jaime Colon my work, this way he can hire me to help brand his company JLC Printing. Im excited to start the internship.

Last couple of weeks I was assigned to make a design for the flyer racket outside the company. I create two designs for it. The first design my supervisor didn’t like it. After his feedback I also thought this design is no good, so I scrap that idea. The second design was more grid like and clean design. At the end of the day I receive a message from my supervisor telling me that this design is well done. He did say it needed tweaking. I change what he ask to be change the next day. After finishing one design I have another assignment. I am to re-create an existing flyer. I’m in the process of going through research now. Their current flyer has pixelated images, and the text is too cramped up. Overall, the ad is too busy. In order to fix this I’m going to simplify their design. As I am working at the department I use the skills I learned in school. Even though this is an internship the designers there expect you to be on a certain level. My supervisor do give feedback to me about all my designs. There is no room for procrastination once you are there you actually work. The good thing about this company is that it provides lunch and tea time for everyone there including us interns. Tomorrow I’m going to the company to start actually working on the layout of the design, and hoping to at least finish the foundation of the design.

During this weekend, the company had to prepare 3 wedding. All employees were so busy to their works. My supervisor signed me to be an assistant of a wedding planner, Tommy. He and I had to decorate one wedding ceremony. Yes, only two of us. I felt unbelievable and stressful, because I had no experiences on wedding decoration. My main jobs were set up a sign in table and a cake table. Before we moved to hotel, Tommy showed me a demonstration and taught me how to use silks, satins, and flowers to set up the table. He says: “I don’t care how you make them stable; all I need is pretty and fast”. Before we move to hotel, I need to pack up all the staffs which would be used on the ceremony. We spend a whole hour to prepare all the elements, including a ten inches high flower stand to a small needle. Everything needed to be pack and keep them safety during the transition. The wedding started at 6, we only had two hours to work. While we arrived to the hotel, Tommy and I start to focus our separate works. In the beginning, I was slow and made sure I follow each step which Tommy taught me before. In the same time, I had to pass tools and give Tommy a hand. However, whenever how I make the satins into a curve, they looked unbalance and ugly. The time was running off, I still worked on those uncontrolled satins; Tommy asked me to stop and watched him do it again. He only use haft hour to set up those two tables. During the whole process, I only stood aside, passed tools and make sure the decorations were stable. In the end, I think this was an unforgettable and embarrassed experience, but I am sure I can do better next time.

Journal Four

     I worked all day yesterday, October 1st, at the graphics department of the King’s County District Attorney’s office.  As usual, there was a lot of spraying and mounting in the morning.  After that, things calmed down, and there wasn’t too much to do.

I felt better being there for some reason, and worked quite a bit on trying to redesign the seal for the district attorney’s office.  They didn’t ask me to do this, but I saw that the other intern was working on it, so I decided to try as well.  I was just trying to put a lot of gradients in it, and give it a more colorful look than just the usual black and white.

It is a little hard to work on outside things at the job, because I can’t use my flash drive.  I can email myself things from the office though, and probably email them to myself there as well.  So I decided to try to continue to try to work on the logo/seal, at home.

I also bought an IPAD, so I can use that at the office too, if I want.  It was very quiet and serious at the job in the morning, but in the afternoon, things got very noisy.  I watched one of the other employees work and do some scanning at my desk, so I could try to learn from what he was doing.  He is very fast when he works on photoshop, at retouching and organizing files.

So I set up the date and time for the interview and the day finally gets here. It wasn’t your ordinary office interview; it was at the CEO’s apartment complex on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. So I met him and the leader of the arte department at the lobby and we went to the last floor terrace where you can see the beautiful skyline of Manhattan.  We sat and then they we started conversing. Firs they started by telling me about there company. Then I told them about myself, and showing them my work, which they really seem to like. After that they told me that they have a little exercise they wanted me to do. They wanted me to create and draw out a “business look” costume for nonexistent fish Bobby. So I started sketching and I drew a cartoony 3d model of a fish wearing a suit and tie and they loved it. We then wrapped it up there and they said they would review a few things and that they’ll shoot me an email within 3 to 4 days. A few days passed and I get an email from The CEO, I was nervous to see what it said and then I read and it said that they were happy to move forward and that they wanted to set up another meeting to on board and go into detail what I would be doing.