The Polishing Center

TPC Final Review

creativesmackdown — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:24:18 +0000

The participants in The Polishing Center have one final review of their work. They invite all the professionals they met with throughout the course, everyone has some beer, some food, and they review the work.

Right this way

showing work

some polished work

The Polishing Center summer class

-TPC-

TPC @ People Design

creativesmackdown — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:15:40 +0000

FIrst off, People Design is awesome. Their space is awesome, and yes, their work is awesome. Oh, and they are awesome for having Octoberfest.

Even though it was a friday, everyone was in a very good, jovial mood, which made the presentations very fun and loose (or was it the Octoberfest?)

Brian from People Design treated us to an informative presentation about presenting your work. Really, really, really, good and useful.

I must say People Design really has their ducks in a row on the social media.

Blog (Ideas)

Flickr

Twitter

And on facebook, but you can find that yourself.

More pics of their office.

They Rock at Family Feud.

Welcome to the porch

I could spend hours days weeks in this room

My favorite item in their office.

Absence of posts

creativesmackdown — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:17:34 +0000

There have been a lack of posts lately….hey, what can we say? Summertime. But not anymore. We have many posts coming up for you as we wrap up the summer session of The Polishing Center.

Young Creatives on the move.

creativesmackdown — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:15:09 +0000

New Jobs for PC grads to be.

Three of this summer’s Polishing Center young creatives have landed new jobs before the end of their workshop schedule.
Here the latest members of the social security club.

Brett Michael
Ad Operations Analyst @ The Onion - the satirical news review paper.
Brett will be scheduling ad campaigns within the Onion server as well as with external vendors, designing presentations, and designing Onion website work in Chicago.

Rob Jelsema
Student Graphic Design Assistant @ Calvin College.
Robb will be designing posters, brochures, programs and other materials for the Calvin Design Studio while he completes his degree at the college.

Lindsay Grates
Project Coordinator/Project Manager at @ Palazzolo Design Studio.
Lindsay will be handling account management, payments, client communications, trying to keep the boys in the line and the train moving forward at PDS.

PC @ ECP

creativesmackdown — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:46:53 +0000

So Polishing Center had a session at Extra Credit Projects. Known for their outdoor, and recognized for their creativity, Extra Credit provided plenty of inspiration and insight.

plenty of awards

don’t get into trouble

ECP has a nice space. Open and conducive for concepting.

Rob shows off some new work.

presenting ideas and getting feedback.

Popeye Bags

creativesmackdown — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:13:08 +0000

for large size click here

Polishing Center @ Palazzolo Design

creativesmackdown — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:58:27 +0000

Home of Palazzolo Design in Ada.

Gregg’s Workspace. The Logo Lair.

Gregg and Lindsay work over some ideas.

Working out ideas before critique.

Working on a 24 hour turnaround project.

Palozzolo does great work. Thanks for the time Gregg.

www.polishingcenter.com
www.palazzolodesign.com

Fairly Painless Advertising.

creativesmackdown — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:33:30 +0000

The session at Fairly Painless was, well, fairly painless. In fact, it was pretty fun.

The session was nothing but good creative.

-TPC-

Bird Design.

creativesmackdown — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:26:00 +0000

TPC gathered at Bird Design to learn from Mark Bird, creative director at Bird Design.

Mark talked about the VSA painted hands campaign

Mark Bird offered some very useful insight into the business. Thanks Mark!

-TPC-

Teamwork Designs Warehouse

creativesmackdown — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:03:35 +0000

TPC took a trip to Teamwork’s warehouse for a meeting.

Teamwork’s Product

pitch meeting with Nick

-TPC-