about a good intern and even better designer: goodbye tamara, see you soon!

I had the great pleasure working together with an amazing "intern" for the last 5 months. intern in brackets because tamara pilz is way more than just that. she applied for a print internship years ago. that I could not provide her with, but years after her portfolio with great love for typography, fonts and hand lettering still was on my mind. so I asked her to work with me in between her bachelor and her master she wants to start in late 2017. having studied calligraphy and typography with Giovanni de Faccio she deepened her studies with a book design course by Gabriele Lenz.

for me, tamara turned out to be a great second pair of hands. with her eye for detail, her love for anything typographic and a really long breath she helped me heaps over the last months. we worked pretty much at eye level this entire time and we will continue to work together until she starts her master in autumn in 2017. but that will be on a freelance basis since I don't believe in long ass long-term internships. I also always was grossed out by the intern culture how I got to know it in austria. so from the very beginning, I didn't pay tamara the well-known internship fee of 300-350 euro a month for 40h a week. I paid her 750 euros a month for 25h a week (so that she also can work on her stuff for the master in den haag). I truly believe in an internship fee that goes accordingly with the responsibilities you get and take on, with the quality of work you deliver and the trust and freedom you get whilst learning from somebody who has more experience. so that is that.

I can only recommend to work with tamara and contact her for freelance gigs this upcoming year. she is working on her portfolio site right now but here is her mail and a couple of things we worked on together. the main thing beeing a font we will continue to work on and publish next year called WOW!