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…

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 of the holiday for me. I’m all about the Grinch. Rudolf’s my sh*t. I dig the Bumble. I can’t get enough of snow miser and heat miser. So last week for work, my assignment was to work on the holiday greeting card that the company was to send out to our clients. Kelly (my dear friend and coworker) told me…

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. In my last post, I mentioned the 20th Anniversary Gala that I assisted in planning for at the National Constitution Center. Witnessing an event that I helped out in come to life was very exciting and rewarding at the same time. Most of my night was working the check-in table to greet the guests and hand out pamphlets of the…

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. The reason that I sought out an internship at a magazine is because I have always loved magazine advertising and seen them, mostly in the areas of fashion, cosmetics, cars and hotel/casino, as pieces of an artistic vision put on to paper. This being said I have always wanted to be in the magazine industry especially on the creative end.…

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 been a great opportunity, and very busy time for me. For the past two months I have heard of this production, how big it is, how long it takes, all the work involved; now I am experiencing it. One of the major new adjustment is working completely with another team to make Christmas Village run smoothly at Love Park. We…

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 that helps feed hungry Philadelphians. I was part of the music group. We decided to make  hip beat instead of doing a radio spot or a jingle. The students felt that this would help better reach their demographic. I can’t believe how talented the group of kids we worked with are! I personally can not stop listening to this song…

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 refresher course since I am graduating in Spring but it turned into so much more than that. I actually built a relationship with some of the students that I hope to continue. One of the students actually told me he wants to go to college now which was one of the main goals, to inspire the students to go onto…

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 credit internships they look at it, as just another 150 hours dedicated to school, but I found that mine was so much more than an advance to graduating. Not only did I gain a ton of experience and networked with so many important people within event planning, but I gained a new family. The employees of GEP gave me the…