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NYC School Construction Authority Graphic Design Internship Opportunity 

NYC School Construction Authority (SCA)
25-01 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City NY 11101

Overview

The New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) is a public sector entity, responsible for building new public schools and managing the design, construction and renovation of capital projects in New York City’s more than 1,200 public school buildings. Our mission is to design and construct safe, attractive and environmentally sound public schools for children throughout the many communities of New York City. We are dedicated to building and modernizing schools in a responsible, cost-effective manner while achieving the highest standards of excellence in safety, quality and integrity.

Job Description

The intern will support the work of a senior manager in the Human Resources Department. The duties for the position will include assisting with creating engaging and informational visual content for training, digital boards, social media, various events, etc. The Graphic Design intern will collaborate with theHuman Resources team to communicate SCA culture and values effectively though design. Their tasks may include designing recruitment materials. enhancing internal communications, visual aids, and presentations. The intern will use the Adobe Creative Suite and understand the intersection of design and Human Resources. Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop and previous graphic design experience is required.

Position Requirements:

  • Local full-time college students currently enrolled in an accredited bachelor’s degree program or graduate student in a Graduate Degree program in graphic design, communication design or in related areas.
  • Candidates should be proficient in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
  • Strong verbal and written language skills are important.
  • G.P.A. will be considered.
  • Applicants who are selected must be able to present unexpired original documentation to show identity and employment authorization to work in the United States.

Work Schedule:

During the fall and spring semesters, participants may work up to 20 per week. During the winter intercession and summer months (June-August), students may work a full-time schedule of 37.5 hours per week. Standard weekday office hours should occur between 8 am-5 pm.

Salary:

$ 19.00-$22.00 per hour (based on grade level)

Required Materials Include:

  • Current Resume
  • Cover Letter
  • Official Transcript detailing coursework completed to date
  • Official Registration (bursar’s receipt or enrollment verification)
  • Class Schedule

Application Deadline:

Resumes will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, however the recommend submission deadline is January 24, 2025.

To be considered, please forward the required materials to:

Ruby Saake, Manager of Operations
Business Development Department
NYC School Construction Authority
2501 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: (347) 231-0010
Email: [email protected]

The New York City School Construction Authority is an equal opportunity

Design 370 Special Topics, Spring 2025

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Entrepreneurship for Designers

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Entrepreneurship for Designers
Class Number: 45284
Day & Time: Thursdays 6:00 PM – 9:50 PM
Classroom: Online
Instructor: Alex Pines


This course is designed for students interested in establishing their own design practice. Through personal reflection, analysis of existing design studios, and practical business skills, students will develop a foundational understanding of what it takes to launch a design-focused business. Topics include business structure, accounting, taxes, contracts, marketing, and project management. By the end of the semester, students will have crafted a personalized toolkit and action plan for beginning a sustainable studio practice.

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Introduction to Lettering & Calligraphy

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Lettering & Calligraphy
Class Number: 45285
Day & Time: Thursdays 10:00 AM – 1:50 PM
Classroom: KP 481
Instructor: Amy Fortunato

This is a beginner-friendly course for letter enthusiasts that are looking to express themselves through hand-crafted letterforms. This is not a type design course that results in a digital font, but rather explores the artistry and bespoke qualities of hand-drawn lettering and calligraphy. Unique and beautifully crafted lettering creates stand-out portfolio pieces and is a useful asset for a multitude of projects.

A variety of exercises and workshops build hand skills with various tools and mediums that combine analog and digital techniques.

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Character Animation

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Character Animation
Class Number: 45297
Day & Time: Mondays 8:10 AM – 12:00 PM
Classroom: IB 203
Instructor: Elliot Cowan

Looking to improve your character animation skills and learn traditional “acting with a pencil”? In this class you’ll take the animation principles you learned in your Intro To Digital Animation class and push them further to start delivering animated performances. Using Adobe Animate, you’ll create characters that think and emote and make the audience believe they exist. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to expand their animation skills, might want to pursue a career in the animation industry or simply wants to express themselves through the powerful medium of animation.

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Sustainable By Design

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Sustainable by Design
Class Number: 43909
Day & Time: Fridays 1:40 PM – 5:30 PM
Classroom: PH 208
Instructor: George Switzer

This course provides an introduction to the core concepts underpinning sustainability and their intersections with design.  Students will gain an understanding of the Corporate Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) landscape that has emerged as a driving force in the adoption of sustainability goals and the important role design will play in manifesting the transition to a more sustainable world.  Ultimately, these concepts will be applied to student-defined projects as an extension of their studies in the areas of Data Visualization & Narrative, Product Design, and Marketing & Branding.

Celebrate Innovation at the MakeSTEAMQ Student Showcase!

We are thrilled to announce the MakeSTEAMQ Student Showcase, a vibrant celebration of creativity and innovation, taking place at the Rosenthal Library, Room 230 Rotunda. This exciting event will kick off with a reception on May 15th at 12:15 PM and will be viewable through June 1st.

About MakeSTEAMQ

MakeSTEAMQ is a National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at revolutionizing student learning outcomes. By integrating making and design-thinking into the core curriculum, MakeSTEAMQ empowers students to think creatively and critically. Faculty Fellows within the program are dedicated to developing assignments that promote open experimentation and innovation, placing a strong emphasis on student-led classrooms.

Event Highlights

Reception: May 15th @ 12:15 PM

  • Join us for the opening reception during free hour to experience the showcase.
  • Engage with the innovative projects and meet the brilliant minds behind them.
  • Student projects from Creative Coding, Data Visualization and Physical Computing will be on display.

Viewable Through June 1st

  • The showcase will be open for viewing until June 1st, giving you ample time to explore the various projects at your convenience.

Why You Should Attend

The MakeSTEAMQ Student Showcase is a must-attend event for anyone passionate about education, innovation, and student-led learning. Here are just a few reasons why you should mark your calendar:

  • Inspiration: Discover groundbreaking projects that highlight the power of making and design-thinking in education.
  • Networking: Connect with educators, students, and industry professionals who share a passion for innovative learning.
  • Support: Show your support for student creativity and the importance of hands-on, experimental learning environments.

Venue Information

Location: Rosenthal Library, Room 230 Rotunda (Downstairs from Library Cafe)

NeoPangea Apprenticeship

Be an Apprentice at Neopangea

Students interested in digital advertising may find the NeoPangea Digital Ads Apprenticeship Program an educational opportunity worth considering. Here’s an overview of what the program offers and how it might align with your career aspirations.

About NeoPangea

NeoPangea has established itself in the digital advertising sector, known for its diverse range of projects and innovative approaches. The company’s work in digital ads is recognized for its creativity and effectiveness.

Apprenticeship Program Details

The NeoPangea Apprenticeship Program provides a hands-on learning experience in the field of digital advertising. Key aspects of the program include:

  1. Learning from Professionals: The opportunity to work alongside experienced individuals in the industry.
  2. Project Engagement: Involvement in real-world projects that contribute to your professional portfolio.
  3. Educational Growth: Exposure to the latest trends and technologies in the dynamic world of digital advertising.
  4. Networking: The chance to build professional connections.

Application Process

Applications for the apprenticeship program are accepted on a rolling basis. Questions and resumes can be sent to Matthew Tucker at [email protected].


For those interested in applying or seeking more information, further details are available on NeoPangea’s website. https://www.neo-pangea.com/

Design 370 Special Topics, Spring 2024

Sustainable By Design

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Sustainable by Design
Class Number: 38566
Day & Time: Mondays 1:40 PM – 5:30 PM
Classroom: KY 061
Instructor: George Switzer

This course provides an introduction to the core concepts underpinning sustainability and their intersections with design.  Students will gain an understanding of the Corporate Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) landscape that has emerged as a driving force in the adoption of sustainability goals and the important role design will play in manifesting the transition to a more sustainable world.  Ultimately, these concepts will be applied to student-defined projects as an extension of their studies in the areas of Data Visualization & Narrative, Product Design, and Marketing & Branding.

Character Animation

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Character Animation
Class Number: 37040
Day & Time: Mondays 8:10 AM – 12:00 PM
Classroom: IB 203
Instructor: Elliot Cowan

Looking to improve your character animation skills and learn traditional “acting with a pencil”? In this class you’ll take the animation principles you learned in your Intro To Digital Animation class and push them further to start delivering animated performances. Using Adobe Animate, you’ll create characters that think and emote and make the audience believe they exist. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to expand their animation skills, might want to pursue a career in the animation industry or simply wants to express themselves through the powerful medium of animation.

Risograph Printing

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Risograph Printing
Class Number: 37042
Day & Time: Fridays 10:00 AM – 1:50 PM
Classroom: Klapper 107
Instructor: Cecilia Ruiz Lopez

In this course, students will learn about the colorful and vibrant world of Risograph printing and how it compares to other printing methods used in the Graphic Design industry. Students will become familiar with the technical aspects and unique abilities of Riso printing as they print their various projects such as posters, zines, cards, promotional flyers, and more.  

Product Design Internship at Justworks

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset – our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks is seeking a Product Design Intern to join our passionate and growing product design team for Summer 2024. As a design intern you will have the opportunity to work with a cross-functional team alongside fellow Product Designers as well as Product Managers, Engineers and Product Marketers to gain imperative knowledge and grow your skill set. You will have the opportunity to contribute to projects and work on all points of the design process from discovery to prototyping to launching designs for Justworks users.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

  • Support projects from discovery to conceptualization to launch
  • Support with user research to gain empathy and better understand our customers’ needs
  • Validate solutions through rapid wireframing, prototyping and experimentation
  • Share work and get real-time feedback in our weekly design team meetings
  • Get 1:1 mentorship with a Product Designer
  • Leverage our design system with consistency and efficiency in mind
  • Work in an agile environment with your key stakeholders along with product, engineering, and design team
  • Collaborate with product managers to identify and define product opportunities in partnership with your product design mentor
  • Partner with engineers to deliver high quality experiences with guidance from your product design mentor
  • Collaborate with other interns and participate in getting to know team members across the Justworks departments
  • Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Product Design Intern, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, you build your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes in the following competencies:

  • Customer focus – building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
  • Teamwork and communication – putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
  • Nimble learning – actively learning through experimentation when tackling problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
  • Results-driven – achieving results, even under difficult circumstances.
  • Creative thinking – discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

  • Camaraderie – Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
  • Openness – Your default is to be open. You’re willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
  • Grit – You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
  • Integrity – Simply put, do what you say and say what you’ll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
  • Simplicity – Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” 

Qualifications

  • Currently an undergraduate with an interest in technology and design-related field
  • Portfolio demonstrating a user-centered design process 
  • Interest in problem solving and an ability to communicate the reasons behind your design decisions
  • Appreciation for details, but also a desire to explore broad perspectives
  • A passion for typography, information hierarchy, interaction design, and usability heuristics
  • Awesome, humble, thoughtful, and interested in the quality of what ships to our customers
  • Has a growth mindset, readiness to learn and open to collaborating with the team
  • Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and prototyping tools 

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $33.65 to $33.65 per hour.

#LI-Hybrid #LI-SP1

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.

AIGA Portfolio Development Studio. Now Accepting Applications!

This 6-week, 12-hour online course aims to help you understand the critical elements needed to have a portfolio that’s right for the projects or jobs you’re seeking. Each week, group crits and activities will help you improve your work and the presentation of your work so that you can put your best foot forward.

Join AIGA’s Lee-Sean Huang for: 

  • Guidance and feedback from industry experts,
  • Support from your fellow designers, and
  • Confidence in telling your story.

Registration closes September 13!

Summer Design Internship / Hyperakt

Hyperakt is looking for a design intern to support our creative team.

Design Intern
35 hours/week
Location: NYC or Remote USA, Eastern Time Zone

This role supports the design team and reports to the Director of Creative Operations. Hyperakt is looking for a summer design intern to support our design team with branding and digital projects. The design intern will be expected to:

  • Support the team: take on production tasks such as masking and retouching, design assets from existing guidelines, source photography and illustration, conduct research on printing and digital production, document Hyperakt’s past projects, package Adobe files, and create Google templates
  • Collaborate creatively: collaborate directly with designers and CDs to develop brand guidelines, create mockups, build figma prototypes, design wireframes, and brainstorm creative directions
  • Participate in client projects: participate in strategy and design workshops and presentations with clients and assist with synthesizing the output of design exercises
  • Support Hyperakt’s social media: prepare images for Hyperakt’s instagram account

Learn more / Apply here

Internship (QC Alumni Relations Department) – April 3rd – June 23rd 

8 hours minimum/12 hours maximum per week. (HYBRID) – 4 hours required in Kiely Hall Room #117 on Tuesdays between 9-5 PM. 

Office of Alumni Relations – Kiely Hall Room #171 

Reports to Laura Abrams, Senior Director of Alumni Relations 

Applications (resume and cover letter) must be submitted by March 10th to [email protected]. Candidates should detail their interest in the internship and describe their QC student experience. 

The pay rate for this position is $20/hour. No RF/CUNY benefits 

Qualifications 

  • Currently enrolled in a Queens College undergraduate or graduate degree program, graphic design preferred. 
  • At least a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) in their current degree program. 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office required (especially Word and Excel); Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Canva; Proficiency in Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere Pro. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Willingness to contribute and collaborate as member of a team. 

Work Responsibilities 

  • Collect content and utilize Mailchimp email platform to create April 16th, May 21st and June18th GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) newsletters. 
  • Collaborate with the Associate Director of Alumni Relations in managing social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Discord and Link tree platforms. 

Must attend two (2) GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) networking events on April 20th (Astoria/LIC area) and June 8th (Flushing area). Assist with set-up and registration from 5:30-7:30 PM. 

Design 370 Special Topics, Spring 2023

Sustainable By Design

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Sustainable by Design
Class Number: 34964
Day & Time: Thursdays 2:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Classroom: Klapper 403
Instructor: George Switzer

This course provides an introduction to the core concepts underpinning sustainability and their intersections with design.  Students will gain an understanding of the Corporate Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) landscape that has emerged as a driving force in the adoption of sustainability goals and the important role design will play in manifesting the transition to a more sustainable world.  Ultimately, these concepts will be applied to student-defined projects as an extension of their studies in the areas of Data Visualization & Narrative, Product Design, and Marketing & Branding.

Character Animation

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Character Animation
Class Number: 34314
Day & Time: Mondays 8:10 AM – 12:00 PM
Classroom: IB 203
Instructor: Elliot Cowan

Looking to improve your character animation skills and learn traditional “acting with a pencil”? In this class you’ll take the animation principles you learned in your Intro To Digital Animation class and push them further to start delivering animated performances. Using Adobe Animate, you’ll create characters that think and emote and make the audience believe they exist. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to expand their animation skills, might want to pursue a career in the animation industry or simply wants to express themselves through the powerful medium of animation.

Risograph Printing

Course Name: DESN 370-VT: Special Topics in Design – Risograph Printing
Class Number: 34316
Day & Time: Fridays 10:00 AM – 1:50 PM
Classroom: Klapper 107
Instructor: Cecilia Ruiz Lopez

In this course, students will learn about the colorful and vibrant world of Risograph printing and how it compares to other printing methods used in the Graphic Design industry. Students will become familiar with the technical aspects and unique abilities of Riso printing as they print their various projects such as posters, zines, cards, promotional flyers, and more.