Monday Meeting Recap - Internships: Tamara McCoy, Zach Schloss, Brendan Bergh

We had quite a few internship presentations this last Monday compared to most. Tamara, Zach and Brendan all presented on what they took away from their internships.

Tamara was the first one up, she worked with Metro, a magazine based out of Minneapolis. Tamara took on the role with a lot of responsibilities in the production area. She would help make ads for Fashion Fight Night, but wished it would have been more about magazine production. If you're looking for an internship that helps with writing for a magazine there is plenty of that. One thing Tamara did say she needed to do was to ask for work and be assertive. If she wasn't she would have been underutilized and not had the chance to work on as much as she did.

Zach presented on his short internship involving developing the website for the Creating Context website. He focused on the designing of the website while Miranda coded it. Creating the design proved to be difficult seeing as there wasn't a pre-existing design library for it. Zach took what Design Works did for the exhibition invites, banners and hand offs then refined them to fit into a web environment.

Brendan worked at McKinsey in the design department based out of Chicago for a semester. He worked from Minneapolis, but went down there twice during the duration of the internship. While interning there he helped design McKinsey's quarterly and worked on some flash. He said he would like to work for them eventually so if you're interested in interning or working in Chicago and have a knack for design talk to Brendan.

Overall, I'd say this was a very successful Monday meeting. Hearing from people who worked in MCAD, Minneapolis and out of state. Next week there will be more internship presentations, check back for more details on exactly who and what will be discussed.