Week 3 at Renegade Agent Marketing was another learning experience. I got some feedback for the Southern Bell Logic designs and she really liked them. She especially like the one with the mirror and asked me if I would be interested in doing more designs after my internship was over. I was excited to get such good feedback and make a connection that I could peruse in the future. I let her know that I would definitely be interested in doing that.
I then started my next project which was a logo modification for a website we were building called E Shop Marketer. The original logo had E in a shopping cart. Sean, the website designer who was giving me advice about the Business Growth Experts logo, was not a fan of the shopping car and argued that it made it look like an online store and not a marketing strategy website. We came up with the idea of a graduation cap on top of the E and I filled it with a woodgrain. It looked really sharp and I was excited to show it to our boss Billy, and then… The younger brother of the owner of company came in to talk to Sean and saw me working on the logo. Apparently he had designed the original and was upset that Billy had assigned me to make a new one. Office drama ensued, and I was eventually taken off the task of editing the logo and put on the task of finding license free images for the website. It was definitely a let down that we couldn’t use the new logo because Sean, Billy and I really liked it. I guess the main take away from this week is you don’t always get what you want.



Learning to navigate office politics is a continual process. You’ll never be done with that.
It is also good to experience having to let go of a project you liked. It is not something you encounter much in academia, where every project contributes to a grade. But in the non-academic world, projects get cut all the time to make way for other projects.