Last Day

Today is the last day... We were busy all morning looking for more images for our collages and organizing all of our files in their system so that once we leave, other employees can continue working on them. I'm really glad there is a beer cart on our last day so we can say goodbye to everyone. This month went by really quickly and I learned a lot, particularly in photoshop. I was surprised to get a meeting request in my email for an exit interview. I have never had one before, but I'm really not surprised; Hill Holliday is quite corporate for an advertising agency.

In the interview, the HR woman asked me about what I thought, learned, and if I would consider working for Hill Holliday in the future. She also gave me a review from the other employees. She gave both Amy and I a baseball hat, pen, sticky notes, and a keychain; all adorned with their logo.

University Review #3 cont'd...

Everything went really well with our presentation yesterday! Unfortunately, we won't be around to show the client the finished product, but hopefully they will decide to use some of it.

University Review #3

Today will be our final University presentation. Hopefully we'll finish making all the changes before 2! We are meeting in one of the conference rooms and we will be conference-calling the South Carolina office for their feedback. We will also be hearing about the second part of this campaign from the creative directors who were working on it here.

University Review 2

We spent all morning working on the University project before our big meeting with Lisa and a few of the other creative directors. It is so nice to be able to print out our work quickly and to size without having to worry (as opposed to when we are in school). 


We met with Lisa this afternoon about our University project. Based on her suggestions we have to make copy tweaks and as well as adjustments to the legal. We are going to narrow down our layout selection to 3 or 4 and pick the 3 or 4 best headlines and copy to go with them.  

Collage Meeting

Today we met with Rio about our collage progress. After exchanging multiple emails about different concepts and tweaks, we met in person with print outs of our current designs. Amy has been working on a Coney Island collage and I have been working on China Town and SoHo. He wants us to include an illustrative element (like a white graphic) in addition to the photographs and typography. He also wants graphic (vectored) images as well. For the Soho collage, I have included a photograph of graffiti one of the art directors shot and iconic buildings from the neighborhood as well as the "Subway Map Floating on a New York Sidewalk" on Greene Street between Prince and Spring. It was designed by Francoise Schein in 1986. 

Meetings, meetings, meetings.

I think I will enjoy working for a larger agency after I graduate strictly based on the free food. There were a couple meetings this morning with free breakfast. It seemed like the whole creative department was included in the first meeting about broadcast. We were given a presentation by one of the production executives from the South Carolina office about everything that goes into a television commercial. She went over the production costs, the timing of a shoot, how to handle paying actors, and what needs to be done to finish editing a spot before it can be actually shown.

Later on, we sat through a meeting about image buying presented by the art buying department. They spend a lot of time researching artists and looking over tons of work so they can offer recommendations to art directors who might need stock imagery or photographers for photo shoots. They also have to deal with all the legal contracts over images with royalties and copyrights. It was interesting to learn about their system and how they prioritize image needs based on the projects.

Meeting the CEO

The New York office recently merged with another agency and today we got to meet the President of the latter. He was very friendly and had a thick Southern accent. He held a meeting with all of the new employees in the office; Amy, myself, two other marketing interns, a full time PR woman who came from the South Carolina office, and a new junior art director. He was very friendly and genuinely interested in our plans after our internship.

Later on, we had an office wide meeting with him to go over new business initiatives.