INTERNSHIP STORIES

My name is Nilam Sari, and I am a rising junior at MICA studying Graphic Design and Interdisciplinary Sculpture. D uring the spring semester of 2016, I was looking for a graphic design internship opportunity somewhere in Baltimore.  I attended the Career Fair where I saw the Science Center booth and found out they were looking for an intern  skilled in wood fabrication .  Steven Valenziano, my soon-to-be-supervisor, explained the intern would help build their on-going exhibition and then be given the opportunity to design, plan, and fabricate their own exhibit. I showed him my portfolio we discussed my interest in toy design which made him encouraged me to apply because most of the exhibition is related to children’s interaction. I applied and went to the interview, and after two weeks I received news I and one other applicant were accepted for  the opportunity to intern as  an Exhibition Design and Fabrication Intern at the Maryland Science Center ...

My name is Valeria Fuentes and I interned the summer of 2016 at a local architectural design firm called Living Design Lab. I first heard of this firm when the Founding Principal, Davin Hong, gave a presentation to my department at one of our weekly lunch presentations. He later became a MICA adjunct professor for architecture where he taught my main studio course during the first semester of my junior year.  In this class, I learned not a lot about architectural design, but also about his newly established firm, Living Design Lab. He also consulted me on an upcoming side project of mine regarding neighborhood revitalization. After the class ended, I felt like I could still learn a lot from both him and his partner at the firm, Kevin Day, so I contacted Living Design Lab about the possibility of an internship. The Living Design Lab is self-described as “a new kind of design firm with a comprehensive approach that aims to deliver projects that are successful by e...

My name is Aage Vetter, I am a Graphic Design major going into my junior year at MICA. During my second semester of my sophomore year, I was reading the ‘jobs’ email sent out by Brockett to the graphic design department. At the bottom she had listed a few summer internship openings, one of them being SID LEE in New York. This was an agency I had heard of in the past so I did more research on their work before quickly putting together a video and making my submission. About a month after I had submitted for the internship, I was interviewed by Jen Adler in HR, who then told me a few weeks after the interview that I had been accepted! I was going to be one of only 2 design interns in the agency for 8 weeks. My supervisor for this time was Dannielle Hoodhood, Creative Resource Manager at SID LEE NYC. SID LEE is an advertising agency primarily pushed and driven by creatives. They work with clients like Pepsi, Apple, Facebook, and Stella Artois to invent ideas, events, ads, campaig...