mischa likes her new job
is it too early, 2 weeks in, to say that I love my job? because, really, at this point, i totally love my job.
last week was one of the most frantic and crazy weeks in the Design Dept, according to many who have been there a lot longer than I, and with my boss (the Creative Director & Head Honcho) out on vacation, I was basically put in the position of whipping all of our designers toward a deadline for Sales (who were calling me constantly), assigning dummy books to freelancers, buying hundreds of dollars of double-sided tape and glitter glue on my own dime (thankfully was reimbursed though), and learning everyone's NAME.
it was nuts, yes, but i was not bored once, i learned an enormous amount, attended the HarperCollins Children's Books divisional meeting and was "announced" as official new girl, got a free chipwich...and am now feeling much more "bonded" with my coworkers & freelancers after getting buzzed with a few for happy hour cocktails. i am so. so. happy to be working in design...in BOOK design...in CHILDREN'S book design...it's just perfect. i nerd out about typography and color chips and people actually relate. it's actually really nice to work for a big (&rich) company with copious benefits and discounts too.
now that my boss is back in town and things are a bit less frantic with deadlines, i'm going to be coordinating Portfolio Review days on Mondays so for certain of you i have contacted about your illustrations/photographs, i will be in touch soon about getting a show-&-tell hook-up (if i missed you, let me know that too).
life is chill, man! i just put some thousand or so new fonts on my laptop today (thanks Nikola!) and i could probably spend the rest of the day just writing my name over and over in all of them (in Illustrator CS3...thanks again Tanya!), but heck maybe i will leave the house too. I could go sit outside of McCarren Pool and listen to Sonic Youth play the entirety of Daydream Nation...I could spy from my rooftop using Virgil's new crazy high-powered Marine/voyeur binoculars...I could stand on my head and eat Fig Newmans...life is full of possibilities!
last week was one of the most frantic and crazy weeks in the Design Dept, according to many who have been there a lot longer than I, and with my boss (the Creative Director & Head Honcho) out on vacation, I was basically put in the position of whipping all of our designers toward a deadline for Sales (who were calling me constantly), assigning dummy books to freelancers, buying hundreds of dollars of double-sided tape and glitter glue on my own dime (thankfully was reimbursed though), and learning everyone's NAME.
it was nuts, yes, but i was not bored once, i learned an enormous amount, attended the HarperCollins Children's Books divisional meeting and was "announced" as official new girl, got a free chipwich...and am now feeling much more "bonded" with my coworkers & freelancers after getting buzzed with a few for happy hour cocktails. i am so. so. happy to be working in design...in BOOK design...in CHILDREN'S book design...it's just perfect. i nerd out about typography and color chips and people actually relate. it's actually really nice to work for a big (&rich) company with copious benefits and discounts too.
now that my boss is back in town and things are a bit less frantic with deadlines, i'm going to be coordinating Portfolio Review days on Mondays so for certain of you i have contacted about your illustrations/photographs, i will be in touch soon about getting a show-&-tell hook-up (if i missed you, let me know that too).
life is chill, man! i just put some thousand or so new fonts on my laptop today (thanks Nikola!) and i could probably spend the rest of the day just writing my name over and over in all of them (in Illustrator CS3...thanks again Tanya!), but heck maybe i will leave the house too. I could go sit outside of McCarren Pool and listen to Sonic Youth play the entirety of Daydream Nation...I could spy from my rooftop using Virgil's new crazy high-powered Marine/voyeur binoculars...I could stand on my head and eat Fig Newmans...life is full of possibilities!