Shark Design

Similar to Morgan Agency, Shark Design are another agency that I was interested in working with over the summer as part of the eight week funded internship scheme and things were looking pretty good until today when I received this quite disappointing news;

'Hi Liam,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you – things have been really hectic here recently.

At this stage, I can’t commit to a summer internship unfortunately as a large project which was scheduled to start shortly, and which I was planning for you to be involved in, has been delayed.

Thanks for expressing interest in working with us though and good luck with your third year.

Regards,

Matthew.'

It would seem that it might just not happen for me this summer, although I am in the process of negotiating the opportunities for Christmas and Easter.

Morgan Agency

Another agency that I have been in contact with over the summer is Leeds based Morgan Agency. I initially applied to gain an internship via the funded scheme organised by Steve Smith, although this would consist of a full-time eight week spell at the agency (something I wasn't too keen on).

Either way, it turns out today that the position has been awarded to David Gasi so congrats to him. Again I pushed for some constructive portfolio feedback to get the most out of the situation;

'...it’s having more commercial, campaign-led stuff in there really, though we wouldn’t have even seen you if we didn’t like what you put forward!'

I think I agree to a certain extent, especially in terms of securing a job at an agency that deals with commercial clients after I graduate. However, I do believe that there should be a balance between this and freelance, self initiated work... I don't want my practice to be dominated by what the client and industry are already looking for, I feel that I would like to challenge conventions to a degree.