INTERNSHIP STORIES

  The Summer of 2017 prior to my senior year I interned at Philadelphia , an award  winning CRM (City-regional magazine, part of CRMA— City Regional Magazine Association). Through my education I have been focusing on print and publication design with in interest in magazines/editorial. This last semester I found myself the only junior in the publication class otherwise made up of seniors. I reached out to Philly mag with a resume, cover-letter, link to my portfolio as well as  my in-progress work from publication and was hired almost instantaneously. Working with the senior director and associate art director (who also interned at Philly mag) I work on a verity of collateral including web banners, and social posts, but the majority of work is for  the book . As an intern much of my work is marketing based, but I have had the opportunity to work on several advertorials for Be Well Philly , Philadelphia’s   heath and wellness publication. ...

My name is Robin Krupnick. I am a senior Graphic Design major with an art history  minor. During summer 2017, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with Mattel. Mattel  is a global toy company that has held its standing as one of the top toy manufacturers  since 1945. Under the Mattel umbrella are several brands, such as the entire  Fisher-Price line (what I was specifically working on,) Thomas the Tank Engine, Barbie,  Hot Wheels, and so many more. I found this internship through a web posting on indeed. The irony of this internship is  that I do not like children or working with children. I spoke to the Fisher Price  headquarters in East Aurora first, then my direct supervisors, then a co worker and was  eventually hired back in April. My position is the Digital Content Design intern, and I was  working directly under Devin Flood who held a management position. Devin left Fisher  Price after 7 long years to go to Har...

                       This past Summer, 2017, I spent my time interning at iStragety Labs in Washington D.C. I learned  about this opportunity from Mazzy Bell, one of my classmates who also did the internship the  previous year. iSL is essentially a creative agency that creates content for companies on social  platforms. This tends to be advertisements and commercials, however, there is another side to  the business where they create things like escape rooms, design and develop websites and create  physical things with the use of technology at the forefront.             My direct supervisor was Campbell Kawaka. Her title is Senior Art Director. I had very  little to do with her the whole time I was interning. That’s just because I ended up working on  projects that were more given to Paul Dunbar, another art director. My day to day was largely...

          My name is Pauline Joly and I am a senior Architectural Design major. During the summer of 2017, I was an interior design intern for Brad Weesner Design, a small interior design company based in Baltimore, Maryland. I have almost always known about my interest in interior design. It was confirmed in the summer of 2012 during my pre-college classes at the Corcoran School of Art and Design when I decided to take courses in interior design. Later on, when college applications were around the corner, I made the decision of pursuing an education in the design field, which led me to MICA’s Architectural Design program. This program was the closest thing to interior design that MICA had to offer. This 2017 internship was meant to give me a clearer sense of what interior design actually was about.           In order to find this internship, I did some online research and looked up interior designers in the Baltimor...

My name is Zi Xu and I am an illustration major going into my senior year at MICA. This past summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to intern at The Studio, a media production company located in New York City. I discovered this internship through their website, and after submitting my resume, a cover letter, and a link to my portfolio, I was offered the opportunity to join their 2017 summer internship program. Being a multidisciplinary company, The Studio has artists who work in a variety of fields such as animation, illustration, live action, concept design, etc. Andrew Wilson, a full-time 3D animator at The Studio, was our direct supervisor and oversaw the projects we worked on during our stay. The first project was for Grace Ramirez, a Food Network chef who specializes in South American food and was looking for artistic content to boost her social media presence. I was tasked with making a selection of food and pattern illustrations for Grace, as well as help...