Take a look at the new graphic identity for the Whitney Museum of Art, designed by Experimental Jetset. Learn about the designers’ process here.
Jacqueline Thaw
Signs seeks on-campus intern
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the preeminent academic journal of women’s and gender studies, seeks an art intern. Art interns work on the cover design, update the website and work on images that appear in the journal. Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and/or InDesign is required. Web programming skills is preferred. Preference is given to students with an interest in scholarship on issues of gender, race, nation, class, and/or sexuality.
Art interns are responsible for a variety of tasks, which may include: Designing the cover; developing brochures and other promotional materials; researching the work of contemporary women artists and proposing cover art; updating the Signs website; preparing images for publication; evaluating artwork submitted to the journal and corresponding with artists.
Internships are five hours per week.
The position is unpaid.
Art interns are listed on the journal’s masthead.
To apply, send your résumé to:
Miranda Outman-Kramer, Managing Editor, at moutman@signs.rutgers.edu
User Experience Design Immersive
General Assembly is offering an intensive 8-week program in UX Design. All day every day for June and July to immerse you in the practice and prepare you for jobs in this specialty.
Fresh Blood IV
If you have any thoughts of attending a graduate program in design down the road, this upcoming AIGA event might be a great way to see what students are doing at various schools. At the SVA Theatre in NYC, students from MICA, NYU Interactive, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, the School of Visual Arts, Cranbrook and Yale will gather present their projects. Tickets are $10 for AIGA members, $30 for non-members. So maybe this is the time to join AIGA. See the benefits list and join as a Contributor for $50. Choose New York or Philadelphia as your chapter. You’ll have a chance to indicate you are a student; we are on the school list as “Rutgers University — New Brunswick”.
National Design Award Winners
The Cooper Hewitt National design Museum just announced the 2013 Winners of the National Design Award, including Paula Scher for Communication Design and Local Projects for Interaction Design. Read/see more here.
DI Group Architecture Summer Internship
Local architecture firm DI Group is looking to hire a summer graphic design intern. This is a paid position, with a flexible 8 to 10 week commitment. It’s a small firm so the internship is very hands-on and a great learning experience. The work is primarily signage and wayfinding. Send your résumé´ and portfolio to Sean Hayes, Director of Graphic Design at shayes@digrouparchitecture.com and please cc me on the email. Good luck!