Graphic or Product/Industrial Design Intern – Summer 2025
As a Summer Intern, you will spend most of your time working on innovation challenges faced by our clients. You’ll typically work on 2-3 projects at once, and the nature of these projects can be remarkably varied. Here is a list of key activities you will likely be performing:
1. Bringing design thinking and creativity to innovation challenges.
2. Collaborating closely with colleagues from different fields to solve broad and complex problems.
3. Challenging conventional thinking and industry-specific assumptions.
4. Creating new ideas and insights, translating these into new ideas and solutions for clients in a wide range of industries.
5. Using your skills to communicate ideas, concepts, and create a narrative that inspires and informs clients.
6. Bringing ideas to life through data visualisation, infographic design, rapid concept mock-ups, Photoshop, graphical illustration, CAD, modelling and prototyping.
7. Supporting Innovia’s sales and marketing teams by designing engaging graphical media for print and digital platforms.
What We’re Looking For
It is important that you:
1. Have at least completed the second year of your undergraduate degree by summer 2025. We do accept applications from graduates.
2. Demonstrate a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of Graphic or Product/Industrial design, and the ability to apply them to unfamiliar problems.
3. Are keen to work in a dynamic commercial and client focused environment.
4. Have a strong interest in collaborative teamwork and have good communication skills.
5. Are comfortable giving your considered opinion on complex questions, and taking part in lively discussions.
6. Have excellent timekeeping and task management skills, to be able to take responsibility for your own work and time.
7. Have an interest in applying your creativity across a wide range of industries, and the ability to quickly learn about new areas.
8. Have a structured design process which shows how you think about problems and iterate ideas.
9. Excel in the Adobe suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign).
10. Experience in other relevant design programmes, Solidworks, Keyshot, Figma, Premier Pro, etc. is a bonus.
11. Are committed to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive, collaborative working and learning environment.
Important Practical Considerations
Office attendance: Our Summer Internships are full-time roles undertaken in-person at our Cambridge UK offices.
Remote working: Unfortunately, this internship is not suitable for applicants who wish to work remotely.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Tech: We use Macbooks for work. The laptop will be provided on your first day.
Applications deadline: Applications close on 2 February 2025.
Interview timelines: Interviews will take place in February-March 2025.
Offers: Decision making and offer stage in April 2025.
Internship duration: The internship runs for 10 or 12 weeks based on individual preference.
Provisional start date: Monday, 23 June 2025.
Right to work: Applicants must be based in and have the right to work in the UK.
Visa sponsorship: Innovia Technology cannot sponsor visas for candidates for the Summer Intern role as it will not meet the Home Office’s eligibility criteria.
Post-internship references: Innovia Technology only offers a basic work reference letter for former interns. This short factual summary confirms that an intern worked at Innovia Technology, and includes their job title and the dates of their employment. It does not provide any details about their performance, projects or duties, salary, sickness/absence record, or any subjective opinions.
Confidentiality: Confidential Information is a key part of our business given the trust our clients place in us. All Summer Interns are required to maintain confidentiality even after the end of the internship. Prospective applicants should take this into consideration, as they won’t be able to write a detailed internship report for their University, publish articles or give a presentation/talk about the details of the projects they worked on.
About Innovia
Innovia Technology has an exciting opportunity for an undergraduate or graduate student with a background in Graphic or Product/Industrial Design to join our 10-12 week paid Summer Internship programme 2025 to apply their skills to innovation consultancy and work on varied and creative projects alongside engineers, designers, physicists, life scientists, chemists, business strategists, and behavioural scientists at our Cambridge UK offices.
Innovia Technology specialises in ‘front end innovation’ – which means we create and work on the very start of breakthrough ideas and discoveries. For 3 months, you’ll join our holistic project teams who are collaborating to solve multifaceted challenges or invent something new for our clients who are global industry leaders in their fields.
What you’ll get
Working closely with other specialists whose background may be in organic chemistry, public health, theoretical physics, chemical engineering or veterinary medicine, you’ll get an opportunity to greatly expand your thinking, gain insights into various specialisms and see how they interconnect in a holistic project setting. We’ll offer you training to make it easier to bridge the gap between studying and working as a Summer Intern.
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