My name is Rose Love and I am a Sophomore Interdisciplinary Sculpture major. Jonathan Adler
started out as a ceramic designer but now designs home goods for the entire
home. He is still very much involved
with the design of everything the company does.
He is the spokesman for his brand and he travels around the world
promoting his business and himself. He
has become an icon in his industry! He even sits in as a judge on design show
panels. But most important to me he is
that he is still very much involved in the design of everything the company
makes with his name on it. My direct
supervisor was Melissa. She was
responsible for taking Eddie’s original models and transforming them into a
perfect production prototype to send to the factory. These pieces were not
finished, they were not glazed. They
were fired and sent on to the factory.
Then there is a discussion about color and glaze. This information would then be given to the
factory in an e-mail.
What am I most proud of?
Toward the end of my internship I was asked to work on a bowl they had
made on my own.
They trusted me to take
what I had learned and put it to work with this piece.
On my last day I was able to take off the
tape on the piece I had worked on and the result was beautiful and everyone was
very very happy!
I also have to say I am
proud that I was competent enough to be accepted into the studio and to be
allowed to work side by side with some truly amazing people.
When I took this internship I was a bit
worried that I would not be comfortable.
That I would be treated like someone at the bottom.
In fact what I fould instead was that
everyone at the company from the receptionist to Jonathan himself was always
incredibly kind, respectful and helpful.
As
result I felt more confident
and more capable which allowed me to grow and learn without any fear.
This internship
has made me certain that I want to be a part of the design or art world.
We all come to school with big ideas about
who we can be but sometimes when faced with the day to day of that idea you
realize you in fact would not be happy.
In my case I am more convinced than ever after this experience that I
will end up as a fine artist or maybe a designer.
Having the good fortune to see someone who
started from nothing and built an empire on his own while still remaining in
touch with what he originally loved…designing was truly inspiring.
I am so happy that I got to work with an
amazing group of people.
The people at
JA are like a family.
They are all
extremely passionate about their work and are all fulfilling their own dreams
in their own ways.
