Initially, I had heard about Creative Mornings thanks to a class assignment last semester. It is a lecture series that has hundreds of chapters around the world and each meeting event, which typically takes place at least once a month in each country and/or city has a guest speaker and musical guest, who starts the even off. Each group of events that take place every month have different themes. In addition, each guest speaker for any event is never from one specific background. Guest speakers can have backgrounds in photography, animation, business, activism, communications, and much more! So there is always a chance for people from all walks of life to go and get inspired-or even informed about something they may have not known about otherwise.

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Sacatelle’s office is is located in Midtown Manhattan, on the West Side, close to Times Square. When one comes out of the elevators and turns in the direction of the office’s space in the building, a  television screen can be seen on the wall, with a 3-tier clothing rack housing just a fraction of the bags the company has designed and created over the years.

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Two weeks out of the summer, my boss decided to take a vacation with his family and time off from work. So, I thought to myself: what better time to start my internship search than now? I used the resource links provided by the COMD Communication Design Internship Coordination Site to start my search.  I clicked on every website link to see what each job search site offered and then decided which would work best for me. For example, living in the Bronx and living so close to Manhattan, I knew that BE.IN Brooklyn wouldn’t work out for me since my commute time to lots of parts in Brooklyn would be too long, regardless of whether I would be commuting from school, work or home.

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The company I am interning for this Fall semester as a design intern is named Sacatelle.

Sacatelle, founded in 2014, is a privately held company with about 50 employees.  The company not only creates designs for a variety of reusable bags for other companies to use as promotional items, giveaways, and gift bags, but they also personally manufacture each bag that has been designed. The company’s clients consist of both high-profile and smaller companies. Industries they have worked with range from retail, entertainment, and finance to name few. Some of their most notable clients are J.P. Morgan, The New York Times,  The New Yorker, Revlon, and Youtube.

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