My name is
Emily Hunter and I am a senior Illustration major. During Fall of
2015, I was an Editorial/Art Intern at Baltimore Magazine. I had always
wanted to see what it’s like to work at a publication, as my
previous internship was more of an experience of working with comics. Towards the end of Spring Semester of my
junior year, I had been emailing and applying to internships constantly. After
consulting with Career Development, I established a contact at the magazine (Stephanie Shafer) who is the
Editorial Design Assistant at Baltimore Magazine. After checking out her
website, I sent as email asking about a possible internship. She later gave me Amanda White-Iseli’s information (the magazine’s art director), and
I was able to snag
an interview with her over
the summer.
The internship itself wasn’t
as stressful as I thought
it would be, but
I still learned a lot
about magazine layout and typography
which are very important things to know
as an illustrator
planning on going into
editorial work.
I created numerous mood boards for
new issues, as well as worked on my own feature for my own portfolio. Towards
the end of the internship I was presented with an awesome opportunity to do
spot illustrations
for the January
issue of the magazine, in
which my own illustrations will be published
for the first time ever! Overall, I’m really happy with the outcome of this internship as it helped me
clarify that I really enjoy editorial work.
