Internships

Harlem Shake Keeps Going

Whether you love it or hate it, the new viral video trend that’s sweeping the world is the Harlem Shake. Groups of people from all over are remaking their own amateur versions hoping to get views and make the best…

TedxTempleU

            Last semester Temple alum, Devon Moyer offered some advice in her article TED: Ideas Worth Spreading as she neared her graduation date to listen to TED talks on the way to class or whenever…

Google vs. Facebook

  Facebook has created a new way to search that could quite possibly dethrone the king of search engines, Google Search. Facebook Graph Search goes beyond Facebook and onto the web where it searches for specific answers instead of various…

Career Week Starts this Friday 2/15!

  The Career Center is being kind enough to provide us with another stacked Career Week! There are so many seminars, networking opportunities, and workshops available this week that you won’t want to miss out on all the great resources.…

Intern, Intern, Intern

In Advertising, students know that our internships are just as important as our education. Internships open us up to so many more opportunities than just going to class and reading our textbooks. Luckily, the Temple Advertising curriculum requires three credits…

Grammy Awards: Beauty and Fashion Ad Geeks Unite!

Red carpet pre-award show events have become almost more anticipated then the actual award shows they’re representing! These events just happen to be some of the biggest opportunities for beauty and fashion advertisers to grab the attention of fans looking…

JT, Bringing More Than Sexy Back

Award Show Season is a time for popcorn, opinions and new, noteworthy ads. Just last week, Adage announced Justin Timberlake’s deal with Bud Light Platinum relatively close to the release of his new song, “Suit and Tie.” The first bit…

Taco Bell: Brand Bowl Winner 2013

Lovers of all things advertising tuned in for our biggest event of the year–the Brand Bowl (sometimes known as the Super Bowl). This years’ Brand Bowl was a little lacking in my opinion. To be honest, some of the commentary…

Get Involved Get Ahead

  A common piece of advice for a college student is get involved. Employers like to see extra curricular involvement on your resume to add to your work and educational experiences. However, getting involved can help you in more ways…

Feeling Lonely this Winter?

Join Temple Ad Club on Monday’s from 4:30-5:30 in the Student Center to get involved in a fun and rewarding student organization. Students in TAC are creative and social individuals looking for people like you. They meet professionals, take trips,…

Here at Love Park

My job has focused on creating print promotional material primary for Love Park, where the department is located and also digital media, updating their facebook account and working on their new website. I really never associated the city of Philadelphia…

Never thought i’d be weeding at work

I spend just about all my time at my internship on the computer designing signs for companies to use all over. We do simple ones that may just be for an event telling where the bathrooms are to the big…

A Final Goodbye To Internships

Wrapping up my final few weeks at Propulsion Media Labs was a bit bittersweet. Along my journey through the semester at Propulsion I was able to make some great contacts with people in the advertising world, as well networking with…

Christmas Card Craziness!

Last week, was rather slow at work, but I worked on one of my favorite projects thus far. I’m a pretty big fan of Christmas time. I love sitting around and watching Christmas specials. Its one of the best parts…

Celebración y Adiós

This past week my internship at AL DIA came to an end after a three month long adventure into the real world. AL DIA was my first internship I have ever taken and it was definitely a great fit for my first experience.…

The Road Ahead

This semester I have been interning at Philadelphia Style Magazine. I have absolutely enjoyed my time there. When I began at Temple as an advertising major I knew I wanted to be in the art direction track for many reasons.…

Christmas in Philly

This year Christmas Village, which has been a part of Philadelphia Christmas for years, has been moved from City Hall to across the street to Love Park, where I am currently completing my internship for my advertising major. This has…

Amazing KAPA Kids

For the Past few months I, along with a group of Temple Students, have been teaching an advertising workshop in Kensington KAPA High School. The objective for this workshop was to create an ad campaign for Philabundance, a non-profit organization…

Good Bye KAPA

Since the beginning of the semester I have been taking a class where a group of Temple students went into two different high schools in Philly and taught an advertising workshop. To be honest, I took the class as a…

End of the semester blues.

So as of Friday my time with GEP has come to an end. I find that I’m oh so impressed by how much I have learned and how much experience they gave me. When I talk to my friends about…

So long, NMAJH

Over the past three months I was lucky enough to hold a position interning at The National Museum of American Jewish History (Known as NMAJH to the workers there). Over my time there I learned that although I am a…

PHL: A Great City to Work in

Rewind back to the month of May, when I was applying for internships. At that time, I pictured myself dashing around Philadelphia in a blazer and heels, running errands for my boss–four coffees in a Starbucks caddy along for the…

Let’s Set the Scene…

September 25, 2012… Our Ad Club Assembly Today was the day… the first day I would introduce myself, the first day I would interact with the students, and most importantly, the first day the students would hopefully open their eyes…

Get Your Dance On!

It’s about to be three weeks from the day of the competition and the creation of the viral/commercial/YouTube video is nowhere to be completed. But unlike us the students at Kensington High School are smiling and enjoying the time with…

Class In Session

I knew from the moment I walked in the Kensington Capa door that this was going to be an amazing experience. Lesson planning wasn’t always easy with such a big group of teachers, but I think we found some great…

Personal Reflection

            First and foremost, this community based learning course was successful in reaching every goal we set out to accomplish.  I don’t believe there were any specific set goals, but personally I had three: Create an impressive advertising campaign to…

The Results Exceeded My Expectations

Coming into this community based learning course, I expected to learn a thing or two about the advertising business, but I never realized I would clearly understand the essential elements needed to create an full-scale advertising campaign. I am honestly…

All Good Things Come to an End

On Monday December 10th, 2012 we had the pleasure of presenting two and half months of hard work to a room full of important people. When I say we I mean both Temple University students and Kensington CAPA high school…

Final Presentation is Tomorrow! On Edge.

We’ve been working for almost an entire semester to prepare for this presentation.  We’ve been working closely with Kensington CAPA students for about a month on the commercial, music track, and print ads and I’m still nervous.  The commercial/youtube clip/viral…

Arron Garcia Future “Music Producer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4LzJgIIsU&feature=youtu.be The last week before the competition, Temple students and the students of Kensington decided to meet two times. The last day we got to chill with the students and finish up everything. Before we left the school I had…

Final Meetings

Our final class was hard for me. It made me realize how much I was going to miss the kids and working on our campaign. We did a lot of work this semester, getting them and the campaign ready, but…

A Success Workshop & A Winning Campaign!

Monday, December 10th, marked the end of the Philly Ad club HS workshop. The turn out for the final presentation was greater than expected. The students from both high schools came together to present their final campaigns to Philabundance and…

Jack of All Trades

My name is Michael Clementi and I am a Special Programs intern at the National Museum of American Jewish History on Fifth and Market Streets in Center City. Before it was moved to its current location in November of 2010, the…

Promotion Machine!

What is sweet, delicious and goes great with a pint of beer? Chocolate! In fact, chocolate is a particularly great flavor enhancer when paired with certain styles of beer, especially stouts. How do I know this? I intern at a…

Chemical Commute

I had the privilege of interning for a chemical distributor during this past semester. I learned a lot of information during my time there. The company has been around for over 140 years. Making the company one of the oldest…