Internship Site List
2nd Edison
Website: www.2ndedison.com
Description: Consulting firm
Notes: Check website for availability
Academy Studios
Website: www.academystudios.com
Description: Exhibit design and building firm
Altitude Inc.
Website: www.altitudeinc.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Ammunition
Website: www.ammunitiongroup.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Astro Studios
Website: www.astrostudios.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: Industrial design, product design, brand identity. Internships available on a quarterly basis.
Atlas Snow-shoe Co.
Berkeley CA 94710
Website: www.atlassnowshoe.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Positions available.
Big Design Inc.
Website: www.big-design.com
Description: Consulting firm
Bond Manufacturing
Website: www.bondmfg.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Lawn and garden equipment. Design position. Preferably knows Dreamweaver, Solidworks, and/or Rhino. Compensation is $10/hour.
boomBang
Website: www.boombang.net
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: Looking for creative-thinking, team-playing, product designer with strong sketching and 3D modeling skills. Email résumé and samples to tylor@boombang.net. (No phone calls, please.)
Bould Design
Website: www.bould.com
Description: Consulting firm
Speck Product Design
Website: www.bridgedesign.com
Description: Consulting office
Notes: We employ industrial designers and engineers. We do a range of products in consumer, medical, and biotech.
Charles Group Inc.
www.charlesgroup.com
Description: Consulting firm (medical products)
Cheskin Research
Website: www.cheskin.com
Description: Design strategy and research
Clorox Services Company—Research & Development
Website: www.thecloroxcompany.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Interns will participate on cross-functional teams designing packaging across the wide range of brands under the Clorox brand.
Ciro Design
Website: www.cirodesign.com
Description: Consulting firm
Compass Product Design Inc.
Website: www.compassdesign.com
Description: Consulting firm
Design Public
Website: www.designpublic.com
Description: Online retailer of design products.
Notes: No design in-house, but a good fit for seeing the business and merchandising.
DesignWorks USA
Website: www.designworksusa.com
Description: Consulting firm (automotive, consumer)
Notes: For product design, contact Jayson. For automotive design, send résumé, cover letter, and samples (10–20 images of your best work) in hard copy to: "Attention Angela — Internships."
Ecco Design Inc.
Website: www.eccoid.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: Positions available as needed.
Eight Inc.
Website: www.eightinc.com
Description: Consulting firm (exhibit, product)
Notes: Please mail résumé and samples (not email). Mostly hire interns for summer work.
Fiori
Website: www.fioriinc.com
Description: Consulting firm
Form Orange
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Fox Racing
Website: www.foxracing.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Internships will be listed on the website.
frogdesign
Website: www.frogdesign.com
Description: Consulting firm
Fuse
Website: www.fuseid.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
fuseproject
Website: www.fuseproject.com
Description: Consulting firm
Graco Children's Products Inc.
Website: www.gracobaby.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Heath Ceramics
Website: www.heathceramics.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Herbst Lazar Bell
Website: www.hlb.com
Description: Consulting firm
Offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston. Consult website.
IDEO Palo Alto
Website: www.ideo.com
Description: Consulting firm
Website: careers
IDEO San Francisco
Website: www.ideo.com
Description: Consulting firm
Website: careers
Incase Designs
Website: www.goincase.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Jimmyjane
Website: www.jimmyjane.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Jimmyjane is a high-concept, high-visibility consumer product start-up that has just launched a premium lifestyle brand. We create and market the highest quality and most exquisitely designed goods available for sexual well-being.
John Murray Productions
Website: www.johnmurray.com
Description: Exhibit design and build firm
Notes: Email résumés and samples.
Jump Associates LLC
Website: www.jumpassociates.com
Description: Design strategy
Notes: Jump offes a four-month paid internship providing an introduction to all aspects of what we do.
Karim Rashid Inc.
Website: http://www.karimrashid.com
Description: Consulting firm
Notes: More information about internships can be found at www.karimrashid.com/a3.html
KID Interactive
Website: www.klitsner.com
Description: Interactive products and toys
La Sportiva
Website: www.sportiva.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Lunar
Website: www.lunar.com
Description: Consulting firm
Notes: Positions available.
Mattel
Southern California
Website: www.mattel.com
Description: Toy design
Notes: Summer internships. Preferably those with toy design emphasis, but not required.
Mauk Design
Website: www.maukdesign.com
Description: Exhibit design
Notes: Positions may be available (email to inquire).
Method
Website: www.method.com
Description: Interaction design
Notes: Interaction design positions available.
Michael Graves & Associates
Website: www.michaelgraves.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: Send résumés and samples in hard copy format Attn: Debbie Baker
Mike and Maaike
Website: www.mikeandmaaike.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: A joint effort between Maaike Evers and Mike Simonian, Mike and Maaike is a resource for experimental design, progressive ideas, and unexpected solutions for products, furniture, and environments.
Modern World Design
Website: www.greenmap.org/mwd
Description: Consulting firm (nonprofit)
Notes: Look at the website first—not a traditional product design firm. Please send a link to a portfolio, not an attachment.
Montgomerypfeifer
Website: www.mp.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
MOTO Development Group
Website: www.moto.com
Description: Design and engineering / consulting
New Balance
Website: www.newbalance.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
New Deal Design
Website: www.newdealdesign.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
North Face Design
Website: http://www.thenorthface.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: Patty is general HR contact and should be contacted with internship inquiries. (Jake Rivas is a CCA graduate, jake_rivas@vfc.com.)
Oliblock
Website: www.oliblock.com
Description: Consulting firm (toys)
Notes: Positions available.
Oliso (formerly Unovo)
Website: www.unovo.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Olive Design
Website: www.olivedesign.com
Description: Interaction design
One & Co
Website: www.oneandco.com
Description: Consulting firm (sports products)
Pablo Lighting
Website: www.pablodesigns.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Notes: The interpretation of light in its many forms, refined design solutions, and a distinctive timeless style; these are the underlying elements of Pablo's design mission.
Pixar
Website: www.pixar.com
Description: Toy and animation
Notes: Apply online for summer internship: www.pixar.com/companyinfo/jobs (No calls please.)
Pottery Barn
Website: www.wsgc.com
Description: Design and retailing
ReadyMade Magazine
Website: www.readymademag.com
Description: Publishing
ReadyMade is a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects—the perfectly round yolk in the mundane egg.
RitaSue Siegel Resources
Website: www.ritasue.com
Description: Recruitment firm
RKS Design Inc.
Website: www.rksdesign.com
Description: Consulting firm
Roost
Website: www.roostco.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Roz Goldfarb Associates
Website: www.rga-joblink.com
Description: Recruitment firm
Samson Design Associates
Website: www.samsondesign.com
Description: Consulting firm
Notes: No positions offered for last three years.
Seven02 Design
Website: www.seven02design.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Smart Design
Website: http://www.smartdesignusa.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Notes: Send email with résumé and design portfolio. This is email for the corporate office in New York that handles all internships for U.S. offices.
Speck Product Design
Website: www.speckdesign.com
Description: Invention/entrepreneurial
Notes: Someone who can research and compile fashion trends, comfortably contribute during brainstorming sessions, refine ideas through prototyping, and produce comprehensive industrial design specifications.
Sun Microsystems
Website: www.sun.com
Description: Corporate design department
Sundberg-Ferar Inc.
Website: www.shapetomorrow.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Surface Strategy
Description: Color/material/surface consultant
Swim
Website: www.swimstudio.com
Description: Interaction design
Taylor & Chu
Website: www.taychu.com
Description: Consulting firm
Teague
Website: www.teague.com
Description: Consulting firm
Timbuktu
Website: www.timbuk2.com
Description: Design and manufacturing
Unovo (see Oliso)
Wagic
Website: www.wagic.com
Description: Design and marketing
Notes: Supplier of innovative products to the DIY and home-improvement market (invention)
Wert & Company Inc.
Website: www.wertco.com
Description: Recruitment firm
West Office Exhibition Design
Website: www.woed.com
Description: Exhibit design and build firm
Notes: No specific positions, but will hire the right fit.
Wham-O
Website: www.wham-o.com
Description: Toy and sport product design and manufacturing. Wham-O is continually looking for industrial design interns. Email portfolio (no phone calls, please).
Whipsaw
Website: www.whipsawinc.com
Description: Consulting firm (consumer products)
Whirlpool Corporation
Website: www.whirlpool.com
Description: Corporate design department
Williams-Sonoma
Website: www.wsgc.com
Description: Design and retailing
Notes: May be looking for interns or full-time hire. Talk with Internship coordinator before contacting him.
Ziba Design
Website: http://www.ziba.com
Description: Consulting firm
Zoe Design Associates
Website: www.zoe.com
Description: Consulting firm