MAKING my MARK

  As my internship with Chestnut Hill LOCAL newspaper winds down I reflect on my experiences and find that I am very satisfied with my work here. Though it was a fairly smaller scale internship I got a chance to work on projects that bigger companies would not have so…

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The Power of Pigs #1

I have an internship with Hatfield Quality Meats in their customer solutions department. Customer Solutions is split into three separate parts, Marketing, Sales, and customer service. I am the only intern in the whole department and I mostly help out the salesmen for the fresh pork team and help out…

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Office Politics

Interning at At Media revealed to me a role of advertising agencies that I had yet to associate with it. I had the opportunity to assist with the campaign for a candidate running for City Council in Philadelphia’s 2nd District (the area around Point Breeze in South Philadelphia). This was…

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The Power of Pigs #2

The past 3 weeks have been very exciting. Three weeks ago, I was asked to help with Hatfield Meat’s Christmas holiday ham promotions. I was moved from the sales department to the marketing and promotional department. Along with helping them with their Ham promotions, I was asked to help the…

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The next “Big thing”

Working at Ogilvy and Mather has opened my eyes to major trends emerging in the industry. I believe the next “Big Thing” in advertising is complicated given the array of pieces that are needed to create any great cohesive campaign over a number of mediums.  However, if I had to…

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Wrapping up my Internship

Interning at a television station has taught me a  lot this summer. Long drives into New Jersey, hours of co-editing, close captioning, that is, repeating everything being said on screen into a microphone, and blogging has added up to an exhausting, but very rewarding couple of months. Being able to observe and…

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Dolce Caffè Font

This week, I was sent in a post from the artists who designed this font! Inspired by the café culture that forms such an integral part of everyday life in Europe, Dolce Caffè is a sweet & stylish handwritten font that is very legible, simple, and useful. It was designed…

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