I got up around eight, had a quick shower, got my stuff and went straight to the little breakfast place right around the corner for a coffee. It's the cutest little place where people sit by the bar eating their egg and bacon and watching the news. With energy in a cup I headed to the studio. Jeanne showed me some of the catalogues she got when she was at this huge designer fair over the weekend. There's so much inspiring stuff out there. She totally knows the things I need to learn. She is considering taking on a room or two in this show house, which, from what I understood, is a charity project where designers donate work and refurbish a house before it's put on the market. So she showed me her ideas and gave me the task of developing them. I had to figure out the specs of a wallpaper she had seen, which took me like 11 phone calls, and I got to practise my sketching skills drawing up suggestions of how to space some columns etc. I'm also learning AutoCad, which is probably one the most valuable things I'll learn during this internship. As well as seriously getting to practise my sketching skills. I'm starting to understand the importance of good elevations..
Anyways, so at 6 we left the office to go to this ASID (American Association of Interior Designers) event where they were screening a documentary on Ray and Charles Eames (yes, I put Ray's name first on purpose). There were lots of designers there and all the free alcohol you could drink. The movie was great too. You've gotta admire the way Ray stuck by Charles all those years, despite his escapades, and nurtured their child, which was the amazing world they'd created within their studio. I'm a feminist in the way that I believe that it should be just as natural for a woman to make her way in the professional (and personal) world as a man. A guy can be ugly, and even fat, and still be recoginsed for his work. A woman can barely get noticed unless she's pretty to look at. I'm not going to go further into this now though. Have a good nite:)
Anyways, so at 6 we left the office to go to this ASID (American Association of Interior Designers) event where they were screening a documentary on Ray and Charles Eames (yes, I put Ray's name first on purpose). There were lots of designers there and all the free alcohol you could drink. The movie was great too. You've gotta admire the way Ray stuck by Charles all those years, despite his escapades, and nurtured their child, which was the amazing world they'd created within their studio. I'm a feminist in the way that I believe that it should be just as natural for a woman to make her way in the professional (and personal) world as a man. A guy can be ugly, and even fat, and still be recoginsed for his work. A woman can barely get noticed unless she's pretty to look at. I'm not going to go further into this now though. Have a good nite:)
Sounds like a really good first day - glad you're learning things already!
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