Design/Art: Intern at L Magazine
December 15, 2008 by Brian James
Filed under Intern Wanted!
Attention design & art majors at Parsons, FIT, Pace, Columbia, Pratt, NYU, and CUNY! Here’s your chance to get your foot in the door at New York City’s lifestyle and nightlife bible! L Magazine provides weekly listings of the latest happenings throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. What began in a one bedroom Brooklyn apartment of founder and publisher Scott Stedman has grown into a fully staffed editorial outlet now residing in hip and historic DUMBO Brooklyn.
Official Listing (Craigslist.org):
The L Magazine, New York City’s premier pocket-size events guide, is in need of a creative, quick-thinking, design-loving intern to aid our art department. Responsibilities will include: making ads, assisting with layout needs, image researching, photography assignments and website updating (thelmagazine.com). Applicants must have experience working with Adobe Creative Suite on a mac platform (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign). Although not necessary, familiarity with web design, flash, and dreamweaver would be beneficial. Interest in photography and access to a digital camera also preferable.
This unpaid internship requires a commitment of two full days a week for three months.
What to Expect: You are who are your friends are. Based on the surroundings… Think casual, young, trendy and fun. DUMBO has recently been touted as the east coast’s Silicon Valley with tech, web and media companies relocating to the hood for it’s spacious loft office space and art based culture. The neighborhood park even has FREE wi-fi! Local companies are known to take their work out of the office and out onto the park’s lawn. I think you get the idea.
Where to Start Your Research:
Connect with Current L Magazine Interns/Employees: Facebook | LinkedIn
When You’re Ready… Lock Down that Interview: Send a cover letter, resume and portfolio examples to designintern@thelmagazine.com
Good luck and please tell L Magazine that you found the listing on iLoveMyIntern.com!
Celebrity Interns: Kanye West to be Louis Vuitton or Raf Simons’ protege?
December 9, 2008 by Brian James
Filed under Daily Fix
Kanye West is the latest celebrity to hop on the interning is now officially cool train. Apparently, Kanye wants to intern for fashion power houses Louis Vuitton or Raf Simons and apply that experience to launch his highly anticipated fashion line.
Simons tells the NY Times:
“I was blown away from the planet when he told me. I know he’s very serious about this — I don’t take it as a joke — but how can I imagine him being my intern? It’s a very extreme situation.”
If Mr. West follows through, and there’s no reason to doubt the man, then he’ll be joining the ranks of recent celeb interns such as musician Ryan Adams and hockey star Sean Avery. Adams interned for the style & culture magazine Blackbook (publicity stunt!) and Avery landed an internship at Vogue. Did any of them walk away with some sort of valuable experience to further their career? Probably not, but that is why Kanye is capitalizing on becoming a fashion protege. Read more
