The Experiences of Temple Advertising Students
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
<—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…
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…
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…
I really wasn’t sure what to write this blog about, however it came to me just this past Friday when the Director of Digital Media from the advertising department asked for someone who was in “promotions and not doing anything…
I literally can’t put into words what I have obtained from my internship. Therefore, I will just start by saying that this internship has opened new doors I never though would be possible! My internship at MayoSeitz Media (www.mayoseitzmedia.com)…
Hey everyone, My name is Deione Sydnor, senior advertising major at Temple University. I set out with what seemed like an impossible mission at the beginning of my senior year, take 36 credits in 2 semesters with 2 internships. Fortunately,…
Before stepping into LevLane Advertising’s Media department, my expectations for being responsible for the creation of a segment of a media plan were minimal. Shortly into the internship I was given the assignment of contacting radio stations located in Chicago,…
My account management internship experience at the Brownstein Group has been very positive. It is interesting to see how everything you talk about in ad courses actually happens in an agency. From account managers constantly meeting with the creative team to discuss…
…Is that I still have a lot to learn. Though I’ve completed my required 150 hours at MOD Worldwide for the semester, I plan to continue to take advantage of this great opportunity and gain as much experience as I…
I went to the Travie McCoy concert on March 19. It was super awesome. Before Travie came on the stage the Bad Rabbits and Black Cards performed. I really likes the Bad Rabbit’s performance. When Travie finally came on the…
As my internship at Maiden Media () comes to an end, I figured I’d blog about some of the things I’ve learned in the last three months that I’m sure a lot of people can relate to as little students…
My internship ended this past Friday, I am graduating in less than a month, and I am now posed with the daunting question most people in my position are faced with.. now what?…
I wear many intern hats here at Quaker City Mercantile. As I’ve stated before, everyday is different here at the agency. I’ve recently been trusted to proofread various pieces we are going to send out to our clients. For example,…
It has been about three months since I have started interning, which is so hard to believe! I cannot get over how fast the semester has been flying by. I am delighted to say that I have been enjoying my…
I just came across this design/branding project early this morning. I have to say it is one of the most inspiring and creative ideas that I have seen lately. The point is to increase awareness for Rock Hill, South Carolina.…
[ Submitted by Dani Masi, Advertising Copywriting Student :: tub49931@temple.edu ] What better way to spend a rainy Friday afternoon then visiting Philadelphia ad agencies? Friday was the annual Philly Ad Club Agency Crawl. 50 students from universities and colleges…
Pixar recently uploaded this video to their YouTube channel in promotion of Cars 2. This is their second viral video, after last years (much better) Lots-o’-Huggin Bear spot for Toy Story 3. What do you think? Is this too… weird…
An advertisement for Zyrtec popped up recently during an episode of Desperate Housewives on Hulu (yes, I still watch that show, ha-ha), and it’s desperate attempt to stand out against Allegra was disappointing. You can watch the commercial for yourself here,…
(my space, how it is, most of the time I’m at my internship)For all of you who can balance your school work, your internship, your job, and your personal life without pounds of chocolate and an IV of coffee, you…
The agency I intern for, Quaker City Mercantile, attends various events where they showcase our products. On Sunday, March 13th I was lucky enough to work at the event entitled Brewer’s Plate at…
People have been asking me lately, why are you an advertising major, interning at a radio station, and going to law school in fall? And my favorite question is, why aren’t you pre-law? Well first off there is no such…
A part of the promotions coordinator/interns job is to call the prize winners from our KYW database. See, on the KYW website you can register to win monthly prizes. The prizes are various, from things such as gift certificates to…
Today’s post is about street art. It was a huge trend that picked up on a mainstream scale in the late 90’s and has continued to gain popularity among the public. Unfortunately with public recognition comes what some would call…
Last friday was opening day for the Phillies, and luckily for me I got to work a promotions event for WOGL. I was super excited because I had never actually done any promo events yet. I usually would just make…
