Internship: Goodness Manufacturing

Yesterday I posted internships at a few boutique agencies throughout the US. Well guess what - add one more to the list: Goodness Manufacturing is currently looking for stellar copywriter interns (Spring & Summer).

The 411 on Goodness Manufacturing:

The agency is located in Venice Beach, CA and was founded by five ex-Crispin Porter + Bogusky-ites who had key roles in the following brands:

• Burger King (Subservient Chicken + the creepy Burger King)
• Miller Lite/Miller High Life/IKEA (Unboring - btw, Paul -THANK YOU for "Lamp" and all the uncontrollable fits of laughter that came along with it - I redecorated my room because of that spot)/Gateway
  
• The Truth Campaign
• Nike/Coke/Microsoft
• Check out more of their work on their site
  

I just have to say, if you're not suffering from an epileptic seizure after reading that you should probably consider taking up horticulture. Don't take my word for it - take his.

Here's the message from Goodness:

"hi! i'm from goodness Mfg. and we are currently in the market for interns for spring/summer. we're looking for an awesome copywriter intern and offering a weekly stipend. resumes/books/cookies can be sent to kbell (at) goodnessmfg (dot) com"

I'm going to salivate a bit - but if I were a copywriter, I'd not miss an opportunity to work with Goodness. You'd be learning from some of the best minds in the business who have the track record to prove it.

That said, get your book all prettied up (I can give you some damn good recipes for oatmeal cookies too) - Good Luck!

Hello Portland!

I'll be in Portland, Oregon through Friday, March 27th. If you're in the area and want to grab a beer send me a DM on Twitter

Internships: Riester/Glass McClure/Neiman Group/Queue

Taking a nod from Father Bogusky, I thought that I would post a few internships from small agencies. Unfortunately, the shops(Toy, Stick & Move, & Goodness Manufacturing) mentioned in the article aren't posting internships on their websites - however, that's not to say that you shouldn't give them a call and ask anyway. Here are a few boutique shops that are actively looking for interns


Riester
Location: Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Phoenix

Clients: Arizona Lottery, Gold's Gym, McDonald's, SPAM, Wetzel's Pretzel's and Hormel Foods (to name a few)

Positions: It's a little confusing - it sounds like they're really looking for account management interns but that there is potential to branch out into media, planning, public relations and/or creative

Deadline: Not specified

For more information: Visit the Reister website






Glass McClure*
Location: Sacramento, CA

Clients: Amtrack, Go Girl Energy Drinks, Dodge, Duraflame, Kelty Outdoors, Lucky Supermarkets

Positions: Account, media, creative & non-traditional/promotions

Deadline: Contact agency to confirm

For more information: Visit the Glass McClure website
* Please be aware that they may not be offering the internship this year as the posting has not been updated for 2009. I emailed them but never heard anything back - sorry kids




Neiman Group
Location: Harrisburg, PA

Clients: 2K, Troegs, Sheetz, Capital Blue Cross, Jackson House, Just Cabinets, Temple University

Positions: Account services, creative, public relations

For more information: Visit the Neiman Group website & contact the appropriate party (Quick word of advice, the internship postings aren't listed as such. To find them, go to click on the "Contact" button, click on "Work Here" and the internships are listed under "Creative," "Account Services," and "Public Relations."






Queue Advertising
Location: Lansing, Michigan

Clients: Paramount Coffee, Sparrow Hospital, Custom Built, Crowner Farms, College Fields

Positions: Account and creative services

For more information: Visit Queue website and their Facebook page

Housing: Finding your i-pad

So you've landed an internship - Fabulous!

Now the biggest question on your mind is: Where to live?

The first thing you should do is calculate how much you can afford. For some, mom and dad will foot the bill, for others a student loan may help with the cost - whatever the case, you should know what you have to work with before beginning your search. (I'll be writing a post about how to raise some money next week).

Next, do some research on the city you'll be interning and try to find out about the different neighborhoods. Here are some resources for different cities:

• New York City
• San Francisco
• Chicago
• Minneapolis
• Los Angeles

Once you have found a few neighborhoods that you think would be ideal for you, check out the housing options available.

Renting a room or subletting an apartment:
Your best resource will be Craigslist. Under the housing section you can find great places that are updated often - so set up an RSS feed if you want to swoop in before anyone else does.

University Housing:
Many colleges throughout the US offer Summer housing for interns and may even include a meal plan. Here are a few worth checking out:

• New York City - NYU
• New York City - Columbia University
• Chicago - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Atlanta - Emory University
• Los Angeles - UCLA

While you're checking out housing options, make sure to keep in mind how long it would take you to get to your internship. Google maps has a good tool for estimating commute time for driving, public transportation and walking - check it out.

If you have any specific questions leave a comment and I'll try to point you out in the right direction.

What does my phone say about me?

Right this very second, I'm sitting atop the 8th floor of my school's library (it's the quiet floor) and I'm checking out Wieden Kennedy's website - you know, because I want to learn more about them. I rarely get this excited about ads but then I came across their work for Nokia (done by the London office) - and I'm floored. Actually, I'm not. I'm dancing (very Monica Belluci-like in Irreversible). Here's some of the work:




(Check out their Youtube channel: Somebody Else's Phone for more vids)

The spots are chaotic, like a bad/good night (depending on how you look at it) straight out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel. The question: What does your phone say about you?

So here goes -

Photos:

• 188 pictures of my childhood - apparently left over from a project I did for my Psych of Personality class where I used Erickson's model of development to explain my life (Lush)
• Pictures of my roommate - on bike/smoking/laying atop a grassy knoll
  
• A Day at the Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Me playing with a rat
• Me cooking - mac n cheese, marinara sauce
• Not so kosher pics of me kissing puppy

Text Messages:

• Lots of Twitter messages (apparently Brian feels fat)
• A bad dog joke I sent to puppy that I killed
• A message asking my roommate if she'd like to "suck my toes?"
• Shit talk about someone - who? I'll never tell

Videos:

• None - iPhones don't do videos (wtf?)

Apps

• Expando: A game I downloaded after I heard the developer was implicated in Gmail shutting down a few weeks ago - and, she's a Tranny!
• Labyrinth
• B of A
• Pandora
• Loopt
• Tap Tap

Voicemail

• My mechanic telling me my car is a piece of crap
• A girl from a group project telling me she's running late to a presentation (sigh)
• A MAIP semi-finalist telling me about her interview at Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners
• A very embarrassing vm from my former boss

Music

• The Ballet
  
• Santogold
• B-sides of Glass Candy
• PJ Harvey

So question to you all - What does my phone say about me?

Internship: Martin Williams

It's Monday - so that means it's time for another round of FIND ME AN INTERNSHIP!

Let me point you in the direction of Martin Williams' internship program, Velocity. First, a little bit about Martin Williams:

"Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN., Martin Williams is a full service agency dedicated to creating 20-ton ideas and building great client partnerships with companies such as Pfizer, Syngenta, Cargill, Payless, Cellular South, Lincoln Financial Group, Marvin Windows, Hoover, Anheuser-Busch, NewPage and MediaWise."

Here are a few of their TV ads:





What Velocity is all about:

• A 16-Week paid internship
• Positions Available in Account Management, Media, Art Direction & Copywriting
  
• Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2009

For more information, visit the Velocity site (which by the way, is a perfect example of what agencies should be doing to promote their internships. It's chop full of peeks into the agency, some of their philosophies, and spliced up with some of their work - good job guys).

Reach Out & Touch Someone

Ever wanted to know what it's like to work at an agency without actually working there? My suggestion, find someone who's worked there and ask to talk to them. Case and point - I was recently contacted by a candidate for Campbell Mithun's Lucky 13 internship program.

Here's how he did it:

• He joined Campbell Mithun's Facebook Page for The Lucky 13
• He noticed that I had posted a comment on their wall & sent a friend request accompanied by a nice message and a link to his blog: Guy with Ideas
  
• He then asked if I would talk to him via Skype (a cheap alternative to phone calls - especially when you're calling from London like he was)
  
• He set up a time for us to talk and asked great questions about The Lucky 13

By the end of conversation he had an interns perspective of what it's like to work at an agency. You can do the same thing.

Utilize social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouIntern (to name a few) to get in contact with former interns and ask them what it's like to work at the agency they worked at.

The worst case scenario is they'll say no. In that case, you move on to someone else - however, I highly doubt they would because EVERYONE I've ever met who's interned at an agency wants to share their story (even if all they did was make coffee).

Try it out - let me know how it works for you.

Internship: COLABORATORY Deadline is April 10th

UPDATE: The deadline for COLABORATORY has been pushed back to April 10, 2009. Even more time to make that app dazzle.


Internship season isn't quite over. In fact - it's not over until you get your offer in writing. That said, if you're going to apply to just one more internship, apply to COLABORATORY.

COLABORATORY is an internship program brought to you by the Portland Ad Federation. Read my original post to find out the basics.

The following agencies will be participating in COLABORATORY:

• The New Group
• Grady Britton
  
• Ascentium
• Anvil
• HMH
  
• Fish Marketing
• Leopold Ketel & Partners
• Xhang Creative
• Pop Art

One of the best aspects of COLABORATORY is the opportunity to work with not one, but three of the agencies listed above. As someone who's played the internship game, I think it's an incredibly unique opportunity to see what the culture is like at each agency.

What also makes COLABORATORY so unique is that the interns work on a campaign pitch to a local client. Though their website veils the client in mystery, I want to let you in on a little secret: It's Columbia Sportswear's International Division. (My reaction to this starts at 2:30)

Just a heads up, their application is extremely intense (as it should be) so you should definitely put some time into it. I mean, if they've created a cheat sheet for the application, you should know they mean business.

Your application must be submitted by March 31st. Good Luck!