0031 - The Account, Pt. 2 (Patreon)

Have you ever worked for a marketing firm, digital agency, ad agency, branding group, design house, copywriting shop, or the like? Let's trade war stories in the comments this week. 

In 1995 I secured an unpaid summer internship at a San Francisco boutique ad firm named—in a bit of on-the-nose foreshadowing*—Bertram Wooster Advertising. Their claim to fame was that they had just lost the Round Table Pizza account. I worked with an asshole named Christopher who drove a convertible Saab and had all the nuance and originality of a beery Arizona frat boy. The triumphal moment of my tenure there was designing a t-shirt for an event where local architects made elaborate pet houses for charity. I believe a project titled "4leg Cassini" won.   

*On the nose because PG Wodehouse would become a favorite author a few years later, but no particular thanks to this gig.