Tara and Laura, Handstand’s designers, also got lucky with Olympic tickets. After fighting with the website every waking hour they eventually managed to get their hands on athletics and womens football tickets from the drip fed, gold dust, print at home lot. All faith in London 2012 was restored and they had a great day at the happiest place on earth!

Aquatics Centre

USA v Japan Womens Football

Wembley

Olympic Park

Velodrome

Athletics

Even Wall-E’s mate managed to join us…

Handstand had the full Olympic experience last week. Boxing at the Excel on Monday and the first night of the athletics in the main stadium on Friday evening. What an awesome experience, especially being on the Olympic park and absorbing the phenomenal atmosphere. So many positive aspects of this Olympics have changed our opinions on the community, the publics’ behaviour and support, and the effect of the Olympic spirit on the nation. Even the logo and the Olympic font has started to look good….

Things come always to an end. These two weeks at Handstand have been productive, challenging, and fun. Today is my last day of internship and I am thinking: what to do next? I have just graduated in Graphic Design and like thousand of people out there, I am trying to get something out of this competitive industry.. a job, a placement, whatever I can find.

Talking with the Handstand team, they explained to me that they care about giving students a grasp of the environment they will face, once they will approach their first job. “We have all been there” said Fabri, and I couldn’t be more grateful for this empathy. Nowadays design agencies don’t always bother to take interns in, but when they do, they are doing us a great favour. I read once an article of someone who wrote that internships are a form of slavery. Well, I think we just need some balance, like everything in life.

Good luck to all the recent graduates. There’s hope out there.
A big thank you goes to: Andre, Fabri, Laura and Tara.

Egle
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