Day to day I work on some similar brands, matter of fact they are basically 100% automotive and even then I’m down to a few brands I deal with exclusively if you will.
Being a person of constant change my mind gets going on what it would be like to work on some “dream clients” every designer has them, their top tier clients they would perhaps lay a portion of their body and soul down for some quality design time. Some of mine are as follows.
Burton
Pretty much wanted to work for them since I started snowboarding in the 6th grade. JDK has been their agency for the last 20 odd years, chance of me doing work for them and not being employed by JDK = slim to none, since I dont think I’ll be moving to Burlington Vermont any time soon.
Nokia
Heck yes, other than Palm my most fav phone company. They are constantly making cool stuff plus I’m all into cell phones, Their canadian site is in dire need of attention. However their microsites for different phone lines have been good like the N series phones.
Nike / Nike SB
Since selling shoes for 5 years had a profound influence on my life this is an obvious choice. The nike SB site done by the odopod folks kicks my ass all the damn time. Simple and effective. Nike knows how to do big stuff right their global site is nice plus the ability to do big time flash projects would rock with budgets that would make my life easyier.
Nintendo
I’m a fany-boy for sure. Microsite heaven and looks like fun fun fun. Their USA site is great. They have always been ontop in my books. GBA micro site and their new Wii sites are on track to be remembered for their clean and simple ideas. Me likey.
Pixar
Seriously I would love to work at Pixar, not only do their offices look crazy nice but their work ethic and shear quality are so tops I’m not even sure I could keep up. I’ll bet worklife is both stressfull but so rewarding at the end that it all evens itself out. I would say more stressfull than advertising. of course I would have to relearn a craft I know next to nothing about but its a pipedream anyways, but one hell of one.
ILM – Industrial Light and Magic
Come on I love Star Wars, this is a given.
Apple
Specifically I would love to work in their industrial design office, even tho I’m into GUI’s and stuff hardware design would be hella fun.
Ideally my dream job is a place that lets me work 1 week a month in NYC, that way I can follow my dream of taking classes at the shaolin temple in new york. A job that would allow me to support my family at home. Let jen teach dancing full time like she always has wanted too. Give my kid the things I had when growing up. The means to lead a comfy life with everything taken care of. Work wise I would be able to still do the things I enjoy the most one of which is experimenting with new applications or new uses for different things. It would let me help friends do their thing in a quality way, it would also let me work with clients the way I want to work with them not abide by some set of rules I find all to confining.
Maybe one day I’ll have the means to start an agency the way I would want an agency, build a team or a family that would allow me to do the things I waned to do and do them my way. Pick the clients I felt I related to the most and make work for them that was at a great level both in creativity and in execution. Maybe thats what its going to take, we’ll see what happens.