Redbook
My name is Nicole Farhan and I’m a graphic design major. I always wanted to get into editorial design and all year I interviewed MICA alumni and checked websites for internships in New York specifically for magazine design. I applied to so many but got called back for InStyle and Redbook. I felt much more comfortable with the interview at Redbook. I grew up reading it so I knew this was the right internship for me. My responsibilities were basic assistant work like printing certain spreads, covers and copying inspiration for them but they also let me design a lot of spreads using the templates they had. It was certain spreads that had basically the same layout each month but may have different pictures of colors that I got to choose. I also attended many meetings with the design team and ones with the whole magazine team. I also attended photoshoots to learn more about fashion photography. The biggest take away from this experience is that magazine design is very fast pac...