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QUARTER AWAY - Digital Design
The world awaits. Choose from three different types of programs.
BASE SCHOOLS
Enroll at any one of Miami Ad School;'s Base Schools: Miami, Minneapolis, Hamburg, Madrid, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo. In each city, your instructors will be working industry professionals who will teach you what you need to know to be successful in the business today. Check the website for instructors and descriptions of the courses you'll take.
You'll stay at your base School for your first year (quarters 1-4) of school. You can take your entire two year program at your base School or choose the option of spending a second year (quarters 5-8) doing the cool Quarter Away program.
Base Schools, in addition to being the places to get the fundementals down, also make wonderful Quarter Away locations. Absorb a different culture and change your perspective while taking classes from professionals in a new city. It can be a great choice for your first Q.A. experience.
GREEN HOUSES
After spending the first year at a Base School, the Quarter Away program allows students to study and intern in up to four more cities: Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hamburg, London, Miami, Minneapolis, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, and Sydney.
You can apply for a Greenhouse during 5th-8th quarters. In a Greenhouse an ad agency gives dedicated space where up to a dozen Miami Ad School students can spend each day of the term working on their assaignments.
Your instructors are creative directors, art directors, copywriters, account planners, photographers and designers from that agency and other agencies in the city. Who better to learn from then the industry's leading professional?
In addition to working on your class projects, and focusing on creative pieces for your portfolio, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the agency's client projects abd new business pitches. you'll see how an agency functions on a day-to-day basis because you'll be working in the middle of it.
What is in it for the agency, you ask? they get a continually renewed source of fresh thinking and new blood. They also get the first glimpse of the next generation of creative talent. Miami Ad School has Greenhouse partnerships with agencies in many cities.
INTERNSHIPS
In your 8th quarter, you can apply for internships. Miami Ad School has interships for our students in over a dozen cities around the world. There are over 250 intership slots a year to choose from. And these aren't coffee-fetching interships. You'll work alongside agency creatives, many times on the same assaignments. Interning students have created and sold TV commercials, print ads, websites, and radio spots. Some graduates won their first professional awards for work they did as interns. Not tool Shabby, Eh?.
GREENHOUSES
Amsterdam – Bureau Pindakaas
Barcelona – Shackleton
Buenos Aires – Furia
Chicago – Draftfcb
London – Iris
Madrid – Lola
Miami - Alma DDB
Moscow – Saatchi and Saatchi
New York – Ogilvy
New York – People Ideas and Culture
New York – Rosetta (portfolio only)
Paris – Ogilvy
San Francisco - Draftfcb
San Francisco - Razorfish
INTERNSHIPS
Belgium – Duval Guillaume
Berlin – JVM
Berlin – Saatchi
Boston – Jack Morton
Chicago – Lapiz
Chicago – Jack Morton
Chicago – Y and R
Detroit – Jack Morton
Dusseldorf - Grey
Hamburg – JVM
Hamburg – JWT
Istanbul McCann
Los Angeles – Mistress
Los Angeles – Jack Morton
Los Angeles – Team One
Miami – La Comunidad
Miami – SCPF
Miami – Sapient Nitro
Miami – Y and R
Minneapolis – Polaris
Munich – Service Plan
New York - Campfire
New York – Carrot Creative
New York – DDB
New York – Draffcb
New York – Droga5
New York – Globalworks
New York – McGarry Bowen
New York – Nickelodeon
New York – Profero
New York - Razorfish
New York – Strawberry Frog
New York – Vidal
New York – Y and R
San Francisco – Awasu Design
San Francisco – BBDO
San Francisco – EVB
San Francisco – Heat
San Francisco – Isobar
San Francisco – Jack Morton
San Francisco – Mekanism
San Francisco – Publicis Modem
Sao Paulo – Ogilvy
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SHANGHAI
intern team at Wieden & Kennedy
After 20 hours of flying and 30 club sandwiches I finally arrived. This was my first time in Asia and I loved it. I was (and am) really amazed by China and its people.
Our time in the agency was an experience itself; it was a mix of western and Chinese people. From the first day we were treated as family. We came to know many wonderful people. We worked hard, as all people at the agency. Wieden & Kennedy
Even though we worked most of the time, we still had time to see many things in Shanghai. It’s very hard for me to explain how Shanghai was, because for me it was such an amazing, and unique experience. I have never missed a country so much after coming home as China, and if you ever get the chance to go, you should. It will change you, and give you a new perspective on life.
David Aronson & Juri Zaech
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DUBAI
Interning at TBWA
My internship in Dubai was an amazing experience. I felt I was a real art director instead of an intern. TBWA\RAAD is about 200 people including the PR and interactive branches of the agency. The agency is located in a brand new office building right next to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai. There are 27 nationalities in the agency and the people are all very friendly and cool. My creative director was American and we quickly became friends. TBWA
The city as a whole, and the agency, is mostly made up of a mix of Indian, Lebanese, Australian, and British people. Dubai has been rated the safest place in the world for several years. There is essentially zero crime here. I’ve never felt safer in my entire life. I feel less safe in my suburban hometown in Michigan, than I did in Dubai. The agency is very bright and colorful and even has a small basketball court in the middle of it which doubles as a meeting room with grandstand seating. There is also an area called “The Garden” with big windows and fake grass and beanbag chairs where you can brainstorm and conduct meetings.
Definitely the coolest office I’ve ever seen in person by a long shot. The very first day we were given 3 briefs. Most of the time, the stuff we worked on was for big clients or for important pitches; which was very exciting. The work can’t get too racy, because it is in an Islamic country, but they are still very open to creativity. It was fascinating to get a completely different perspective on the world.
For any ladies worried about not being taken seriously in Dubai because of Islamic tradition: don’t worry about that at all. The women in the agency are treated the same as they would be in any office in Europe or America.
David Christensen
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Argentina
Greenhouse at Furia
Greenhouse Students Commemorating
Coca-Cola’s 125th anniversaryMiami Ad School Greenhouse Students and Instructor Guillermo Tragant present book commemorating Coca-Cola’s 125th anniversary.
Download a digital version of the book here.
Tragant’s agency Furia creates ‘125 Reasons to Believe in a Better World’ featuring the work of 150 artists, including some Miami Ad School Greenhouse students.
Longtime faculty member Guillermo Tragant and his agency Furia created a special book commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Coca-Cola brand. Dubbed “125 Reasons to Believe in a Better World,” the project contains the work of more than 150 artists from around the world. And some of those artists were students in the Miami Ad School Greenhouse program Furia hosts in Buenos Aires.
The work of Miami Ad School students Audra Hutchinson, Per Snare, Alberto Rodriguez, Allyson Simms, Daniel Garcia, and Natalia Angarita--as well as alumnus Sebastian Pallares--is featured in the volume, created not only to celebrate the Coca-Cola brand, but to recognize individuals and challenge readers get involved in making this planet we all share a better place.
"It’s really inspiring and culturally relevant that such an enormous and global brand as Coca-Cola has the vision to stop in order to take a look and think, and the courage to start a project of this nature," says Guillermo. "One that involves such a huge amount of contemporary thinkers and artists, and people who are doing good things for this world. It adds value to the environment in which each of us lives.”
The campaign was first released in Mexico, and is being launched in several other countries this month.