INTERNSHIP STORIES

The place where I conducted the internship was a small company called J4D. Like other advertising companies, J4D was a company that designed advertisements for clients' specific needs or requests. We worked together as a team with one set of values called “We make big waves.” This means that the advertisements we make cause big waves and make a difference in the world. My direct supervisor was the CEO of J4D. He provided me with enough opportunities to learn the overall company flow and work so that I could adapt well to the company, and those efforts made me able to complete a successful internship thanks to him. During the internship, as a member of the design team, I participated in the process of designing and producing advertisements for various domestic and foreign client companies such as Nike, Porsche, Yuserin, Goose Island, and Innisfree. The company was separated into a planning team and a production team but often the work was carried out as one team. I worked on the pro...

This summer, I held a position as the design intern of an architecture and interior design firm called SSAT+. The firm is based in Bucharest, Romania and they work on various types of projects, both commercial and residential. They work on projects that involve creating buildings from scratch as well as ones that involve renovating existing structures. I learned about this internship through connection an acquaintance of mine had with one of the heads of SSAT+. During my internship, my direct supervisors were one of the heads of SSAT+, as well as an interior designer with whom I worked more closely with. Her and I met on a daily basis to discuss furniture design for an interior design project. We also participated in team meetings less frequently to discuss the project as a whole. The project that I worked on with my supervisors involved the renovation of an old historical building that is being adapted into mostly office spaces. The other part of the project was the creation of a new ...

This past summer I interned at One House Design. I found this internship opportunity through a connection my father (who is also an architect) has and because it is local to my area. One House Design is an interior design company, with both an Interior Finish Department and Furnishing Department. I worked in the Interior Finish Department where they mostly worked on drawing floor plans, 3D modeling, rendering, using Photoshop, and creating construction drawings. My supervisor was the supervisor of the entire department and would mostly check the drawings others and myself made. For my own responsibilities and projects, I mostly worked on floor plans and rendering models which I felt really helped hone my architectural skills. I also attended other parts of projects including material board, counting area, and going to construction sites.  The project I am most proud of was also the biggest project I worked on. I made some designs for a house with a garden that is owned by a really ...

My four week internship at Baremetalco was exciting and fulfilling. I wanted to further build on my metalworking skills I learned at MICA, so over the summer I wanted to work at a metal shop. Since I was heading back home to Singapore, I decided to reach out to Baremetalco through social media and was accepted as their first intern. Baremetalco is one of the few companies in Singapore specializing in sheet metal fabrication. The company fabricates a variety of steel, stainless steel, and aluminum products such as railings and postal boxes. They also often fabricate metal sculptures for local artists in Singapore. At Baremetalco, I worked directly with the second-generation owner of the company. They are currently rebranding the company and expanding its focus from fabrication to design and innovation. As it is difficult to sustain the business solely based on manufacturing products, he is attempting to move up the value chain to position Baremetalco as a company that designs and custom...

  Keypair is a security company with blockchain technology and KCMVP-certified products. This internship was introduced to me when I visited Keypair with an artist who is planning to make NFT to ask about NFT. While I was asking some questions about NFT to the CEO, he offered me a design intern position. I thought it would be a great experience so I started my design internship at Keypair. The main project of the company was to upgrade a crypto wallet app. Therefore, we were adding new functions and upgraded them. My direct supervisor is a UI/UX designer/developer and we discussed a lot of the UI/UX design of the app and what can be implemented through code. I was honored to be part of designing the whole UI/UX and visual designs of the app. I am most proud to see my designs on an app that everyone can use. My biggest takeaway from this is that I learned more depth about software, such as Figma, Illustrator, and After Effects. The most important thing that I learned from this inter...

I found this internship when they did a pop-up show at Stackt market  in Toronto. Stackt has taken unused land and transformed it into an experience  of curated discovery. It’s designed entirely out of shipping containers. I  really loved this space and the concept but was very interested in the  interactive work FILMARTIST had done. FILMARTIST is a creative agency dedicated to crafting innovative and artistic  contents for brands and businesses. By harnessing the talent of commercial  artists, brand specialists and digital content creators, they produce  memorable visual experiences and design. My direct supervisor was the co-founder of the agency.  I was involved in the design process of many of their projects, including  design the 3D/4D graphics of an augmented reality business card. I also  designed a lot of things for proposals like an interactive, immersive  experience gallery space for two artists in China. I de...

I learned about this Creative Capital Shanghai (CC) from a MICA alum.  CC is a brand advertising company and now it is collaborating with Altavia, a  French advertising firm. My direct supervisor was the creative department manager. I participated in design idea generating, presentation designing and even designed a project  independently. I learned how to present my work more professionally. When I was in school, I only  needed to think about my own feelings about the design, but when I work, I have to think about how  everyone feels about the design, not just from the designer's point of view. I am most proud of my time management and multi-stream working schedule. I learned  about managing my time with various projects going on, and I think designing culturally is the most  important thing I have learned. I am also more familiar with Adobe Suites. This internship experience has given me a better understanding of what people at a b...

I got this internship through a family friend who used to work at Sony.  She put me in contact with Sony Music Canada director of the office I worked at then he linked me to my supervisor.  I am very proud of the new skills I learned such as  improving my Photoshop skills and learning how to make GIFs. I have also learned how to network and create professional relationships.  I was  responsible for designing GIFs for artists, create playlist album covers, helped with  some artists websites. I was also asked to help film for GIFs, videos,  and for photography  artists.  This internship helped clarify my career goal and helped me realize that I want to work more in the music and entertainment industry, but still as a graphic designer.

My name is Molly Kaye, I’m a rising senior Illustration major and MAT candidate. During Summer 2018 I was a workshop intern at the Bible Lands Museum in west Jerusalem, Israel. It is a archaeology museum that focuses on artifacts and the histories from places mentioned in the bible and the Talmudic stories (the stories in Jewish Law), They had exhibits on everything from Neolithic art, to Proto-Canaanite, to Canaanite, to Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Persian, Etruscan and a new exhibit on a recently re discovered ancient way to make a blue dye called Telekhet. I was introduced to the museum through a third-party organization called Onward Israel . Onward is a growing organization, funded by the Jewish Agency (not all participants were Jewish), and seeks to help young adults expand their resumes and to facilitate a deeper firsthand understanding of Israel-Palestine through being part of the society for even a short time. Through Onward I went on several day trips to ancient c...

  My name is Syehyun Lee (Sean) and I am a rising junior Film and Video major in Maryland Institute College of Art. During the summer of 2016, I was a Video and Marketing department intern for Dasan Education, a company based in Seoul (Gangnam), Republic of Korea (South Korea). When I was a high school student, I went to Dasan Education Institute to study for the SAT and TOEFL for the American University, so I had always wanted to work at Dasan company when I get old enough to work, and summer 2016 was the time! What Dasan company does in South Korea is launch decent SAT, ACT and TOEFL Academy (Institute) sites in large cities in Korea. They also have two international middle and high schools in Seoul, South Korea. I can say that all the huge companies have video departments for recording something. In Dasan Education Company, they need to record all the lessons of SAT, ACT, TOFEL, and AP subjects for merchandizing; they sell to students who really want to study outside ...