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Summer Intern
City Fabrick / Long Beach, CA
Posted on: March 14, 2025
Application Deadline: Mid-April
Job Description
We are looking for upper-division or graduate students working towards a degree in graphic design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and related professions who are interested in collaborating with our team as paid design interns.
Internships are for the summer break, with flexibility for start and stop dates to accommodate the academic calendar. As a City Fabrick intern, you will not be brewing coffee or making copies. Our design studio operates as a fertile place for creative experimentation – we are constantly seeking to reshape the physical environment for people. Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic and constantly seeking new inspiration. You have an interest in cities and the influence that community engagement, design, planning, policy, and communications have on restoring, reshaping, and empowering our communities. We expect you to take an active part in engaging our team, partners, clients, stakeholders, and residents to co-create those solutions for the challenges our communities face.
You will leave this internship with tangible work for your portfolio through the opportunities to:
Work on a range of projects, including affordable housing, open space access, environmental justice, active transportation, and adaptive reuse/historic preservation.
Utilize and improve your current skills with the option to explore other design interests.
Collaborate with a variety of team members and disciplines in a creative, fun, challenging, and dynamic environment.
Possibility to make positive impact in underserved communities.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
DESIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
→ Upper-Division or Graduate student in a graphic design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning program, or related field.
→ Flexible, collaborative, and resourceful.
→ Ability to assist in all phases of a project from conceptual design to implementation.
→ Organizational skills with the ability to work concurrently on multiple, quite different tasks and projects, in a variety of roles.
→ Intuitive sense for design and the design process. Excellent graphic and visualization skills capable of expressing design ideas quickly, with clarity and precision.
→ High degree of personal motivation. Self-initiating with the ability to solve problems independently and as part of a team under the shared leadership of the Principal and Directors. Ability to work remotely.
→ Proficient with the latest versions of Adobe Creative Suite [Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom] and Microsoft/Google Office [Work and Excel].
→ Knowledge of CAD, Sketchup, Rhino, modeling techniques, and rendering programs
→ Verbal and writing skills to communicate with community partners, public, clients, consultants, government agencies and colleagues. Fluency in a second language is a plus though not required.
Application Instructions
Candidates should send their resume, cover letter and portfolio, work sample, or student project as PDF files or website link to [email protected]. Please do not call to inquire. Hourly wage would be $21-25/hour negotiated based on experience, expertise, and skillsets.
