I spent most of March in Oslo for three reasons. Visit friends, receive the Young Talent Award and talk to agencies about my upcoming internship in August. A few days before the award event I got a call from Christer Lien, one of the designer heads in Scandinavian Design Group (McCann), Norway’s largest pure design agency, and the most award-winning. He wanted to know I’ve found a place to have my internship yet, and I would be interested in having a chat with them the next week. Quite shocked, I replied that I would love to. “Long” story made short I went on the interview – it went great and above all expectations (I haven’t been at an interview in this kind of agency before, so I really had no expectations). Later I met them at the award show, where I received mine, and they won two awards themselves. I had a meeting with their CEO the week after, and we agreed that I would work as an intern for Scandinavian Design Group from August ‘09 to March ‘10. Woho!
Scandinavian Design Group do all sorts of design, but with focus on corporate identities, package design and digital design (web & tv) – which is basicly exactly what I want to work with and the areas I wish to develop in. They’ve really given me the impression that they have their hearts at the right places, and that the agency consist of a lot of different types of people who all share the same passion for design and branding – probably a very inspiring and diverse crowd. They’ll let me take part of the projects I want to be a part of, and they seem really focused on giving me as much knowledge from this as possible.
I’m excited, eager and very happy about everything and I think that this will turn out to be 7 amazing months – and hopefully a career.