everybody's working for the weekend

I am currently in an internet cafe down the street from my aunt&uncle's doing work on a Saturday night. We just got breifed on project Fri. and its due Mon. It's snowing for the 3rd time this week and FREEZING. Next week it's supposed to be under 10 degrees for most of the week. Brrrrr. Good thing I love snow.

So yesterday was definitely the best day so far. First thing in the morning Cara, Bee and I got briefed on a project for Motorola and their new line of "rugged" phones. The main concept was taken care of Ogilvy Global but we have to adapt it for these specific phones and a Canadian market. The idea is really fun. So I think it will be some good work when it is done and it is something that I will actually be here to see until the very end because of the super short deadline. The first ads are due at the publishers on the 22nd and the second ads on Feb 4th. So after the meeting I had to immediately begin image searching which is what I am still doing now. After that Mike and I had to present our layouts to Nancy and she chose mine!!! Wooo! I was so excited. So if it gets final approval from the clients then it will be a real life print ad. I don't think I can really use it in my book though because I only designed the extra back page of the ad and had nothing to do with the actual concepting but still, I'm excited! 

So the rest of the day was more image searching and I will most likely have to go into work tomorrow so we can really brainstorm because we need to show multiple finished products to Nancy on Mon. at 5. After work I decided to go do some shopping and stumbled into a giant underground mall with all the favs like Urban and Forever.  The weekend has been pretty uneventful because uhh... I basically know no one in this city.