My name
is Christina Kwiek and I am a
rising senior graphic design
major at MICA.
This past summer I interned at DuJour Magazine
in New York City, a
luxury lifestyle magazine
started only a few years ago. During my search for a
summer internship
towards
the end of my junior year, I knew that I was interested in working in
fashion and publication design, and also that
I wanted to be
in New York to really surround myself with the
most successful and inspirational people I could that
were
currently working in
that field. I reached out
to Sarah Olin, the
Senior Designer at DuJour Magazine, after finding it
on a list of independent magazines
with
a focus on fashion
being published in
New
York. After
meeting with her
over spring break for
an interview, I was offered an
internship position as the
art/design
intern at the magazine for ten weeks over the summer.
Working at
DuJour was truly an
experience unlike any other, and I can confidently say
that it solidified my desire
to work in
the world of fashion
publications
post graduation this
year. Working under both Sarah, and Stephanie
Jones, the
art director, I was
able to work on a multitude
of
different projects and
gain exposure
to so many different
topics and trends
at the magazine. I worked a
lot
with the web editors throughout
my
entire time there, working to translate print
stories
to web
and do image research for new visual approaches
to the imagery on the
website. As I worked longer at
DuJour, I was
eventually able to start
working on layouts for actual pages
in the magazine, and even
ended up getting a
photo collage I created published for one of the stories
in the Fall 2014 issue
of
the magazine. I worked
there
basically from the conception
of
the Fall issue
to its final production
during my
last week, and feel like I really came
full circle in seeing
the entire process of the
art department’s
role in the creation of a quarterly magazine.
This
experience was definitely unforgettable
for
me, and I feel like the
connections I made
both in and out of the
office will be
ones that will hopefully further pave
the way for my own personal success in a career in fashion publication design.
