Graphic Design Internship

Are you a designer looking to gain some valuable work experience? If you can give us 100% of your unbridled creativity and fresh ideas, we’ll counter with a fun, up-beat culture and comfortable life balance.

We want you to BRING IT! And by IT we mean your peerless talent, your unique problem solving skills and, most importantly, your positive attitude.

If you can work alone as well as within a team and are looking for building creative and corporate experience, we have a spot reserved for you.

There is one catch though. You must have a portfolio. Student work is fine.

You will...

• Create necessary in-house collateral which could include posters, newsletters, fliers, spec sheets, corporate material.
• everything a company this size needs to run.
• Work with external clients to create labels, screen prints, logos, brochures.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to solve creative issues with design, photography and videos.
• Design promotional material for company outings, events and special occasions.
• Be able to take constructive criticism and be willing to grow as a designer.
• Prepare quotes for external projects.
• Work closely with other creatives including graphic designer, art director, photographers, filmmakers and marketers.

You have...

• A working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud. Particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Superb people reading skills and are able to provide customers and co-workers with the designs they are looking for when they don’t often know themselves.
• The persuasive talent to sell your ideas, backed up with logical reasoning, and then carry those ideas through to fruition.
• Did we mention a positive attitude?

A little about the company :

• Been around since 1895.
• Grown from 30 employees in 2005 to 60 in 2010 and now over 240.
• Locations in Addison, IL (Headquarters), Indianapolis, IN (2018), Pittsburgh, PA (2019), Salt Lake City, UT (2021), Jurupa Valley, CA (2021), Livermore, CA (2021), Charlotte, NC (2023).
• We distribute rigid packaging products and industrial filtration.
• We have a beautiful newly renovated corporate office / warehouse in Addison.
• We have a strengths-based approach working to leverage what the employee likes to do and is good at doing.
• Privately owned

We work to build autonomy, connectedness and confidence in your role

• Interns will receive check-ins from HR as well as their department leader
• We have various committees employees can support such as Culture Committee and Cary Cares
• Fun Friday’s, and other company events are some highlights (check out our Facebook page)

People that are successful in our culture / company have the following characteristics :

• Positive / optimistic
• Open Minded, but still look for ways to make our systems better
• Curious / Inquisitive
• Customer-Focused (ease of doing business for our customers)
• Supportive of Co-workers
30+ days ago