Kismet Arts Tangent

I had my first day today at my summer internship. It is my first job where I am 1) sitting at a desk 2) working 9 to 5, monday through friday 3) using special skills acquired through institutionalized education 4) in front of a candy bowl 5) have an hour lunch 6) on the internet 7) not getting paid 8) have complimentary Pepsis. I volunteered at a haunted barn (no pay) and worked at a pizzeria (yes Pepsis).

It was really sweet. I had a couple of fresh yellow paper pads on my desk and some pens waiting for my brilliant ideas. I had my first real assignment: work on stationery for a law firm. It’s just like Jill’s class all over. The brand and address was decided on by someone else (thank goodness). In my school assignments, we had to come up with the name of our company and make logos, etc.

This assignment, I just have to arrange the information. I told myself to establish hierarchy and use color and size to dictate where people look first. (I didn’t sketch first. I totally forgot. I was so excited to set up all my InDesign preferences for this machine (a computer assigned just to me!) that I didn’t do the thumbnails that is always heavily suggested for better ideation. I thought it was interesting that one of my superiors gave me this handdrawn diagram of my deliverables due tomorrow afternoon: a business card, envelope and letterhead, specifically with the components in the top banner part with potentially a footer.

People seemed nice and fairly engaged with their own work and I spent half of my time working on the stationery and the other half looking at some side projects that they recommended that I think about. The company is really lacking in social media stuff, so every time I am side-tracked, reading a blog or something, I call it research. I’m going to get used to this stretch of time and find a way to structure it better. I don’t know how all you 9-5ers do it.