Yesterday, we had Samira Daswani spend the day with us. She is currently a first-year Wellesley College student as well as an intern at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cutural Center. We have been working with The Davis since 2007, so when Barbara Levitov, Marketing Manager extrordinaire, asked if Samira could shadow us for a day; we jumped at the chance!

The Overview:
In the morning she spent time with Liz, our office manager, who gave her an overview of how things work from an operational standpoint at kor group. She then spent some time looking through our printed samples to get a feeling for the type and breadth of work we do. She was ready for us (we like that) with lots of great questions about how a design business runs.

Coffee break with paper:
At around 11 am we met with Dana Sallee from Appleton papers and Joyce Robillard from Arjowiggins. We poured over paper promos and swatchbooks over coffee-talk about Curious and Utopia papers. Interestingly, Joyce had one of our printed pieces that we designed for MIT!

Creative Tour:
We spent some time making our way around the studio to see what the other designers were working on:

James reviewed proofs with us (see image below) for the Cargo Ventures project for the Drydock Building collateral which he teamed up with Matt on. 

Rusha showed us the trade show panels she is designing for Bond, a construction company.

Justin showed us the alumni magazine he is currently designing for New England Law Boston.

Brigitte showed us some new concept boards that she and Matt are working on for ING.

 

A project in proofing stage

 

 

Brain Power:
After we all had lunch (yes we really do all take lunch together at one long table), Samira joined a brainstorming session for Bucknell University, lead by Anne, Dan, and Libretto (a writing team we work with). She offered a fresh perspective to the brainstorming session.

We said our good-bye’s and off she went with her bag of kor schwag; just another fun and productive day at kor group!

Thanks for spending the day with us, Samira!