I finally got the call back for the moderns design agency. It took a while; I thought they had forgotten the whole internship interview. The interview is set up for this Friday at their new location. Hopefully all goes well in the interview. I have learned about searching and applying for internships/jobs. This will prepare me for the eventual job hunt after I graduate. The best place to search for internships are: monster.com, indeed.com, simplyhired.com and internmatch.com. LinkedIn is more for job search than internships. I don’t really find many post for internships. Another place I got an interview for is Sachin and Babi. It is a fashion design firm where they create new designs. It looks like it’s promising also. It is a new market I can go into to expand my experience to fashion market. I’ve also applied to a couple of part time graphic design and video editing jobs. Since I can’t work full time and I need an income. times are touch.

This week’s interview also went well. It was for a newly started company called Freedom for all mankind or F.O.A.M for short. They are just starting and their website is launching soon. They need help with motion graphics and storyboarding. It seems like a perfect fit, but it doesn’t look like they are ready to immediately launch. I would be working on their pre launch ideas like a video where they show they are and what they do and their message. Their brand and message is to create a community for artist and creators to get and network with each other and not only with just artist but local business in communities to get design work done for them. They also promote a healthy lifestyle and eco-friendly ideology. It seems like a message I can relate to and find creative ways to promote the company to create the community, but I feel they are still sort of a long way that I wont gain much from this.

The first two interviews went very well. They were not what I was looking for. The first one was a small company called private party island sells cheap party items such as hats, new years glasses etc. they would have me do new designs for their hat collections. The designs would consist of trending this such as the marijuana leaf, common memes used in social medias. I would also retouch the photos of their products and models wearing the products. The environment there is very messy, unprofessional and it just smelled like cigarettes. It was a two-man team but both would just smoke inside. This was definitely not a place I wanted to intern in. the second one was way better. It was a New York based company for men’s shaving products. It was more organized; they would have me do their photo retouches for their products and marketing design for both print and web. They would also have me doing their advertising and illustrations. The only catch is that they want a 25-hour commitment and unfortunately I can’t do those hours. I had to decline the internship because of it. Hopefully the one next week works out better for me

I finally got some responses. I’ve got two interviews this week and one next week. The moderns design agency also responded to my email and wants to do an interview with me, but there is a few problems with that. The first one is that next week they are going to a client workshop in Paris and the week after that they are in the process of moving to a different bigger location. They said they would get back at me as soon as they can. I just hope its not too late. The moderns seem like the ideal place to work in. It is a smaller scale ad agency and would simulate the working conditions of agencies like Y&R or wondermann. I’ve had a taste of whats like to work in the wonderman design agency. before the semester started I participated in a design contest with the one club called the one club bootcamp. This bootcamp puts the participants into teams and gets a client with a brief and we have to create an ad campaign out of the brief and what the client want us the designers to solve for them. The client we had was coca cola and their problem for us to solve was to innovate and make their my coke rewards more geared towards the youth and to embrace all of the coke products under one rewards system. It was a great learning experience to work with others from around the city with different ideas and approaches to tackle the problem at hand.

I almost went into school for class this week. I still have to get used to this format, but I feel it is to get us more independent and take more responsibility for ourselves and be on top of things, as no one will hold our hand through this process. I’ve sent out about 10 emails to companies from post on monster, indeed and simply hired websites. I haven’t heard from them for a few days now. I will wait a few more days to send a follow up email to see if they gotten a chance to read my resume and request for an interview with them. I am still very wary of replying to post on craigslist. It seems unprofessional and very shady as some post don’t tell which companies they are, who are they, what they do and where are they located.

Today was the first day of the class. It is weird that the class only meets once every two weeks. Hopefully I don’t forget that I don’t have class next week. From now until next week I will be preparing my cover letters and resume to send to potential employers looking for an intern to work with them. To be frank I don’t really know where to start looking for internship or which site is more reliable to get an internship. I am going to have to rely on Google. Looks like Google will be my friend for the internship search. At least professor Mason gave us a list of potential internships to start off and have as back ups. I am going to try and find an illustration or motion graphics internship, as those are the positions that most interest me in learning more of. Another back up I have is my old internship at bridge agency I did during the summer. Lets see how this week goes with the internship search.