Fox Wrap Up
As my time as an intern at Fox winds down, there has been a lot of exciting projects I have been working on. For the past year Fox was secretly working on a new re-branding campaign which has been very…
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The Experiences of Temple Advertising Students
Internships
Flyers Playoff
I have an internship with the Philadelphia Flyers. These past couple of weeks have been crazy at the internship obviously because it is playoff time! At the internship I am a part of the in-game promotional team called the Fun…
The End Is Here
I have now reached the final week of my internship at The Nouveau Image. It has truly been a very rewarding experience. I was able to learn a lot during the course of the internship. I always enjoy being able…
Fresh Branding
A fresh new branding campaign has been launched for Stack Architects. The creators of this clean and concise design are The Consult. “They were looking for a fresh brand identity that would reflect its craft and, being a new organisation,…
The Final Curtain
To quote Frank Sinatra, “the end is here and so I face the final curtain”. As the semester comes to a close, so is this chapter in my Finch Brands internship experience. I’ve been asked to stay on for the…
And the waiting begins..
So I have finished my internship at LevLane Advertising. I had an amazing time learning and getting to know some of the people there. I woke up today, without an alarm, to the time that i would have gone in.…
Once you tell them you can help, they know
Interning at the Brownstein Group has been a great opportunity. It is an established agency in the city with big clients and innovative people. As time has gone on, I have made a realization about interning. Everyone is always busy. From creating, to communicating,…
My last Week
Thanks to MayoSeitz Media I will be considering a career in Media Planning! I am on my last week at my internship. Tuesday is the last full day and Thursday is the Cinco de MayoSeitz party. Something I am extremely excited…
OK! Magazine is More Than OK!
Right when I walked into the office on the 4th floor of the 44th and 6th ave. office of OK! Magazine, I knew it was the place I wanted to be. As a web intern at OK! Magazine, I feel…
Darwin’s Got Nothing On Us
If there is one thing I have gained from this internship it is experience. Before this internship all my knowledge of the advertising and marketing world consisted of theoretical situations and hypothetical in class clients. Finch Brands has really helped…
Knowing what you don’t know
As I look back on this semester as an intern at the Avenue of the Arts, I feel that it was a great start to my career. I not only gained experience, but I also realized what I didn’t know,…
The kitchen table internship comes to a close and a career unfolds…
I have a job. Sheffield Furniture & Interiors has hired me as their official Copywriter. The responsibilities that I have as employee are basically the same responsibilities that I had as an intern, which is doing almost all of the…
Millennials…A Generation of Change
We have been told that if we work really hard we will succeed. We won trophies. We learned that everyone is a winner. 75 % of us use social networking sites that have started revolutions… (And stalked our ex’s). We…
Lego Ambient
Above is a sample of an idea produced by Access Agency for Lego. Although it is just a concept, it is probably one of the better ambient/viral tactics I’ve seen in recent years. One thing I’m not sure about is the…
Saying Goodbye to a long Workout
I just had my last day at Weston Fitness, it was a weird change to end, but it is nice to not have to go Center City every other day. As I mentioned in my previous post; overall,…
The 10 Most Stressful Jobs (and yes fellow advertisers, we’re on here)
As us seniors come close to graduating and finalizing our career choices with actual jobs, freshman/sophmores come to a crossroads of choosing a major, we all spend much time considering all aspects of a job as it would affect our…
Lamar Peterson Illustration
Have you ever seen a piece of work (art) and had only one single thought on it? A thought like (excuse my French) “what the fuck is happening right now?” This is exactly what I think when I see the…
LevLane
Internships are great ways to gain experience in your field of work prior to graduating from college. The goal of gaining a media planning internship this spring was not only to see if this is the line of work I…
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye
As my internship comes to a close I’m grateful for the experience. I have learned so much and met great people. Interning at The Gabriel Institute has taught me that you never really know where you’ll end up in your…
A Blog About A Blog
= What better way to intrigue all you bloggers than to talk about…a blog!? That’s what I thought. Regardless of irony, it’s something that I really want to share. Brownstein, like many companies has… a blog. Unlike the others, however,…
Interning, not working out, at a gym.
I currently am finishing up my internship at Weston Fitness located on the corner of 19th and Market. As I mentioned in my last post, it is primarily marketing based but also incorporates some art direction advertising within the job.…
Building websites
Here at Two 1 Five Design Group, I’ve been working on many websites with my boss. We are currently handling Buymorecontacts.com and Eyeland.com. I have never learned the process of actually building the websites with coding therefore I was helping…
Marvel Volkswagen Spoof
Marvel Comics took the Volkswagen “The Force” video and made their own dupe on it. While still wondering the legality behind it, I think it was a simple, easy, and effective idea to market their new cinematic release of…
Keep It Moving
Before starting an internship of any kind, I was under a certain impression about the formula campaign. The client wants more sales…so- you do the research, you make some ads, you follow the results…Kazam. Right? Nope! Interning with the…
Final Decisions
The end of the semester is here, which means the ending of my internship at Creative Video. Even though I’ve been here since November, it seems like the days went by rather quickly. I enjoy my days working here. I…
Social Media is the New Black
Last week at Finch I got an amazing opportunity. I got to learn all about how to create and manage a Facebook ad from some of the best people in the business. Until now I thought the whole process seemed…
Well, the semester is almost over. I guess I should start getting around to those 3 blog posts…
So for the past 2 and-a-half months or so, I’ve been a Copywriting intern at the Philadelphia agency 160over90. Looking back, I’m pretty lucky that the only agency to give me an interview and an offer a week before the…
Wrapping up at WOGL
Sadly, my last day at WOGL is coming up, tomorrow actually! There were many ups and downs at my internship, but overall I believe it to be a successful learning experience. While I did have “intern responsibilities” like file invoices…
Temple University Portfolio Night!
The Temple Advertising Club (TAC) will be having a Portfolio Night open to students both in the creative and accounting tracks. There will be advertising professionals from all over Philadelphia including ad agencies Razorfish, Dudnyk and LevLane. Don’t miss out…
Hatch Easter Egg Design Contest
Hatch is holding its 4th annual easter egg design contest. Honestly I’ve never even heard of the contest until recently, although I knew about Hatch as a firm. There are some pretty good ones in there, my favorite of course…
Identity Design: The Landing by Jamie Stolarski
Below are images from the new identity design created for The Landing by Jamie Stolarski. The Landing is a jazz club in San Antonio, I can’t think of many well designed jazz club identities, Jamie on the other hand killed…
Time for Action!
I’m an intern at Creative Video, a video production company located in New Jersey. I was hired at the end of the winter semester as a graphic design intern. Since there wasn’t much design needed during the winter break, I…
Legality Issues as an Intern
Working as an intern at the Office of Sustainability I have run into many legal issues with design. So far at the office I have to make sure certain brochures and fliers are approved by Temple authorities. One example of…
The little things in life.
At my current internship at Philly Magazine I’ve gotten the opportunity to meet a lot of great people (see my last blog about networking) and learn a ton of tools that will help me in the future. Because it is…
Becky Last seen: Neiman Group
I started my Spring semester internship with Neiman Group in January and have loved every Monday/Wednesday/Friday since! Neiman Group is located in the 1619 building on Walnut Street, which is the old NBC building. My label at Neiman is New…
And we’re rolling.
Today was a good day. Today, I was inspired. One of our clients is in the workings with Brownstein to execute a TV spot for a new product. This may make me sound like a six year old, but…I can’t…
Networking is your power tool.
I’ve always been told that the last semester of senior year is the most difficult. It’s the period in your life when you have the least time to yourself. Yet regardless how many times I have been told this I…
The day I’ve been dreading..
<—See that girl? That’s what I’m going to look like a few weeks from now. Graduation; the day I’ve been dreading for the past four years is less than a month away. To some people, graduation may seem like an…
The love seat, oriental rug, wallpaper internship (part II)
My internship at Sheffield Furniture and Interiors has progressed over the course of the semester, and I am so pleased with the amount of responsibility and assignments I have been given! I am writing all of the copy for newspaper…
Glennz
One of my favorite illustrators of all time, Glenn Jones better known as Glennz, has released some fresh work! I’ve been following him for awhile and his illustration wits have always inspired me. He takes stereotypes, personification, and literalism to the right…