Jay Schacher comes for a visit.

This, is Jay. Currently positioned as Senior Designer at Henderson Bas - a graphic design firm located at 479 Wellington St. W, Toronto, Ontario (photo provided below, taken from Google.ca). There is about 80 people currently employed by HB (Henderson Bas). One creative department usually consists of the following:
• four (4) junior designers
• three (3) senior designers
• three (3) art directors
• one (1) associate creative directore
• one (1) creative director.
   In being a senior designer, some of the jobs that Jay in charge of completing are: brainstorming, concepts, design, overseeing, and meeting timelines.



  The flow of how work travels from person to person works like any other design firm : 
art > creative director > account manager > client / input > redesign 1/2/3/etc > happy client.

  Henderson Bas mostly specializes in mobil interactive web ads, and some print. Already HB has made their mark in the industry by working on websites with such brands as Coca Cola, Joe Fresh, Tim Hortons, Nintendo, Ally, LG, and others.

During Jays' stay at HB he has had the pleasure to work on name brands such as:
• Timex - Ironman
• LG - Shine Plus ; get connected website
• Coca Cola - iCoke ; FIFA World Cup.
• Mercedes Benz

    Jay enjoys his job very much and when asked if he sees himself there for much longer, he replied with, "Yes, HB has a wonderful culture and I like the jobs on which I get to work on". Jay also mentioned that at HB all the employees are more than welcome to bring their dogs to work – as long as they are trained of course! Jay is currently living in Ancaster and commuting into Toronto every day, he says that sometimes it's bad, and sometimes it's okay.
   "Henderson Bas is an extremely fast-paced environment," says Jay, "a concept design may take about two or three days, the design of that concept about 2 days and the build of it maybe half a day to a day and a half - so about a week and a half in total". When asked about how his work hours are, Jay replies with, "Basically, you leave until your work is done. Sometimes you stroll in around 9 or 10am and leave at 5pm or even 8pm if your work isn't done - but then it's time for you to grab some dinner".

   After a few hours of insightfullness, Jay leaves the class with a few pieces of advice:
• stay close with your classmates - you never know when you can help eachother out on a job someday. Your classmates will be the perfect people to call on.
• network a lot - it is very key to keep ties and get your name out there. Jay also suggests to obtain a profile on Linked In - a professional networking site. http://www.linkedin.com/nhome/.
• usually the clients want to opposite of what you want (ie : nine tries for a  toolbar design).
• be a team player, not a hero.

To view more of Jays' work, you may visit his web portfolio at http://www.jayshack.com/.

HENDERSON BAS : http://www.theniceagency.com/
479 Wellington St. W, Toronto, Ontario