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Welcome to the School of Design Career Center website. This website serves as a comprehensive source of information for students and alumni on all aspects of employment, both on and off campus and before and after graduation.
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The Career Center offers many resources to help you find a summer internship. But what do you do when you can’t live at home or with a friend for the summer? If you need help finding housing during your internship or summer job, this list of summer housing resources we
compiled may help:
Note: The Career Center is not affiliated with any of the programs or websites listed.

Click here to view the Summer Housing Guide.

Job_Opportunity, 05/20/2008,
Bestway International Design Internship/Work-Experience Program
,

Bestway is looking to fill four leisure/toy product design intern positions in our Shanghai R&D Center. On-site housing is provided at the newly constructed Bestway Executive Center located in Jiading Shanghai.

This exciting opportunity will run July through August. Interested applicants are requested to forward email-friendly portfolios and resumes to jared@bestway-shanghai.com. All applicants will be notified of their standing by May 1st.

Required Skill Sets:

  • Excellent sketching capabilities
  • Background with creative software packages include but not limited to: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, 3d max, CAD, Maya, Rhino, Corel Paint, etc.
  • Outstanding verbal and visual communication
  • English language proficiency
  • Chinese language a bonus but not a necessity
  • Portfolio review is mandatory; preference will be given to those displaying both strong graphic and industrial design backgrounds
Program Overview:
Week One - Inflatable Production: An in-depth overview of mass-production
Week Two-Three - Prototype Production: Making inflatables
Remainder of the Program: - New Product Development: Working with sales and marketing design briefs participants will develop new product
Jared Goldberg, Design Manager,Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp.,No.3065 Cao An Road, 201812, Shanghai, China
Tel: (86 21) 691355793
Cell Phone: (86) 13916097670
Fax: (86 21) 59135069
Web site: bestway-global.com

Job_Opportunity, 05/19/2008,
Designer Position
,

Designer
U.S.A.

Morningstar`s Individual Investor business unit seeks a Designer to provide creative assistance and support to the design team throughout the design process. The Designer should be interested in and skilled at solving challenging information and communication design problems.

Required skills: typographic, verbal communication, knowledge of design development tools, minimum of BFA in graphic design/visual communications. An advanced degree is a plus.

To apply, please send a portfolio or work sample along with your resume and a cover letter. Applications that do not contain all three of these items will not be considered.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Job_Opportunity, 05/16/2008, User Experience Designer Position
, Note from Alum: Vikram Bapat
Req#/Job Code: 222268
Location: Redmond, WA
This is an incredible opportunity for a visual designer with outstanding 3D design abilities and deep interest in shaping the design direction of Microsoft’s next generation product development on the 3D visualization front.

Please send me your resumes and link to your online portfolio at vbapat@microsoft.com

You can also submit your resume online through the external facing job description at Microsoft’s Career site at: hyperlink to members.microsoft.com

Candidates should have most, if not all, of the follow qualities:

  1. 4-year Bachelors degree in Design (interaction design, industrial design, visual communications, or related field), HCI, Human Factors or similar.
  2. Experience in designing a consumer software product or game.
  3. Experience of usability testing.
  4. Training and experience in using 2 or more design and prototyping tools, for example, Flash, 3d Studio Max, zam3d, Photoshop, Expression Design and Blend, and HTML/XML.
  5. A design portfolio showing samples of work, fairly developed visual design sense and a well-rounded design skill-set.

Vikram Bapat
Senior User Researcher
Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation
Tel: +1(425) 705 4085

MDes CPID 2000

Job_Opportunity, 05/15/2008, Internship opportunity,

Architectural Sign Associates creates environmental graphic design and wayfinding programs for healthcare, education and office environments. This paid internship at our Mt. Lebanon office (adjacent to the T) for the Summer 08 term offers opportunities to design signage and wayfinding elements as well as re-branding corporate literature.

Architectural Sign Associates
signplanning website Please contact Wendy Holmes at
Marketing Director
wholmes@signplanning.com or 412 563 5657 ext. 18 to apply or for more information regarding this internship opportunity.
Architectural Sign Associates
m. P.O. Box 11716, Pittsburgh, PA 15228
p. 412 563 5657 ext. 18
f. 412 563 5664
e. wholmes@signplanning.com
w. www.signplanning.com
GSA Contractor GS-07F-5775R


Inna Aronzon
BFA '05

Inna Aronzon, is a 2005 graduate of the School of Design with a double major in International Relations. She currently resides in a suburb of Boston and has been working as a designer for a toy company since graduation.

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