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.
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.
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.
It was interesting to see how illustrations aren’t just considered drawings. Things such as paintings can even be considered illustrations. I suppose anything that is created by hand, whether it be a painting or a drawing can be considered to be a illustration.
What I’ve learned in my Design Principles I class this semester is that a lot should be considered when designing something. The background can be just as important as the foreground. Color interaction is also something that can effect an image; some color combinations can cause a bright color to look dark or even a dark color to look bright. Color is also subjective; what one person may consider to be a “true” red could be seen by another to not be considered the truest red they can think of. Also, a static image can appear to have movement depending on the placement of objects within an image, and scaling can help create spatial depth within a 2-D image.
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