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 with advertising or design work, but this internship has revealed just how much advertising and visual design play a role in almost all businesses, even the city. Philadelphia is unique in that we have the largest network of city parks in the country, so there is always plenty of work to be done promoting events and creating maximum exposure for Fairmount Park.…

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 ones you see hanging from street lights in center city, to some of the Templemade signs with the faces in the black background, to the ones Temple drops big bucks on that hang across broad street telling when the next games are going to be. Its kinda nice though, Temple is starting to pay me back for the years i’ve…

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 students from other schools I worked along side of such as Penn State and West Chester University. We all worked so well together and I know that as we part and begin to form our own paths in “real world,” we are able to keep each other in the back of our minds when positions may arise. Although I had…