You know its bad when you cant remember how many interviews you've had 
. Anyway, here we go again. I went in for a lunch interview to meet the rest of the staff, get a tour of the office, etc, etc. It went fine but I STILL dont have the job! They want me to do a test project. They are going to give me a project of theirs to do. Sounds a little overboard to me but, whatever. I will be keeping track of my worktime just like I do with a freelance project. If they dont hire me they will be getting an invoice from my freelance DBA.
If I do make this move their office would be a pretty drastic change for me. Right now I have a large office with 3 computers (single G4-single monitor, dual g4-single monitor, and a G5-dual monitor) with a giant desk that wraps around the whole office. I aloso have a large format color laser C9500 ($7000).
They are in the middle of expanding so currently the Senior Art Director and the head of interactive share an office. The Sr. Art director's Mac is fine (dual G5) but the desk is tiny and the boat anchor displays are in need of an upgrade. Looks like when the old print designer left the interactive department may have absorbed some of her equipment (all their equipment is top notch). Their printer is a Xerox Phaser that can only print as large as legal size. I was really fighting my desire to say, "how the hell do you guys function as an ad agency with equipment like this? My office is equipped better than your whole print department!". Its totally amazing the quality of work they do while not having suitable equipment. They must really be tight asses... the large format Phaser is only $4-500 more than the smaller one, WTF?. Anyway, needless to say, the state of their print equipment is lacking. Still, it will be a good change for me if I can turn the department around and not only have it churning out good work but actually having it looking like a normal print department.
. Anyway, here we go again. I went in for a lunch interview to meet the rest of the staff, get a tour of the office, etc, etc. It went fine but I STILL dont have the job! They want me to do a test project. They are going to give me a project of theirs to do. Sounds a little overboard to me but, whatever. I will be keeping track of my worktime just like I do with a freelance project. If they dont hire me they will be getting an invoice from my freelance DBA.If I do make this move their office would be a pretty drastic change for me. Right now I have a large office with 3 computers (single G4-single monitor, dual g4-single monitor, and a G5-dual monitor) with a giant desk that wraps around the whole office. I aloso have a large format color laser C9500 ($7000).
They are in the middle of expanding so currently the Senior Art Director and the head of interactive share an office
. The Sr. Art director's Mac is fine (dual G5) but the desk is tiny and the boat anchor displays are in need of an upgrade. Looks like when the old print designer left the interactive department may have absorbed some of her equipment (all their equipment is top notch). Their printer is a Xerox Phaser that can only print as large as legal size. I was really fighting my desire to say, "how the hell do you guys function as an ad agency with equipment like this? My office is equipped better than your whole print department!". Its totally amazing the quality of work they do while not having suitable equipment. They must really be tight asses... the large format Phaser is only $4-500 more than the smaller one, WTF?. Anyway, needless to say, the state of their print equipment is lacking. Still, it will be a good change for me if I can turn the department around and not only have it churning out good work but actually having it looking like a normal print department.
