This week's spotlight includes: Weber Shandwick, NBCUniversal, and The Minnesota Children's Museum…
Job Title: Design Intern (Spring 2026)
Organization Name: Weber Shandwick
Wage/Salary: $20/hr
Opportunity Summary: As part of a dynamic content creation team our Design Intern will work with all members, including senior leadership, creative directors, designers, art directors, copywriters and producers. From creative brainstorming to day-to-day execution, Weber Shandwick’s Interns form the foundation of a talented team that generates groundbreaking, award-winning programs. During the program, you will work on campaigns for iconic brands and companies that you likely encounter every single day. What’s in it for you? Our Interns will earn practical experience as fully integrated members of account teams and will receive coaching from team members to help advance your career goals.
What you’ll do on a daily basis:
Create: Work within a creative team and collaborate actively with account managers and strategists to produce campaigns from conception to completion
Design: You know your way around Adobe Creative Suite and can bring ideas to life in a visually engaging way—from 360° brand platforms to video, social, experiential, print, tech, and more
Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
Plan: Assist in event coordination and logistics
Hustle: You bring fresh thinking, elevated creativity and great ideas to every assignment.
Monitor: Track brands in traditional and social media
For a full description of this opportunity and/or to apply, go to the job posting.
Job Title: NBC News Creative & Design Internships – Summer 2026
Organization Name: NBCUniversal
Wage/Salary: $19/hr
Opportunity Summary: See yourself at NBCU! Be a part of our intern community, a group of curious and passionate trailblazers who we believe are the future of our industry. The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day. Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
This intern will learn the design process and contribute to the daily graphic production. They will also learn about the process of integrating graphics on air. We are looking for interns majoring in Graphic Design or Animation with experience in Adobe Suite and Cinema 4D. The NBC News Digital Art and Photo Department works with the editorial departments across our newsrooms to photo edit, illustrate, and create visual design work for our sites, apps, and social platforms. This intern will work with art directors, reporters, and editors to select and edit images for articles on nbcnews.com. They will produce conceptual, photo-based and/or drawn illustrations with Photoshop and Illustrator and design and produce social graphics.
November 10 – December 5: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume)
Must be available to work 40 hours per week from June 1 – August 7, 2026.
Must be willing to work in New York, NY.
For a full description of this opportunity and/or to apply, go to the job posting.
Exhibit Fabrication Intern
Organization Name: Minnesota Children's Museum
Wage/Salary: $16.37/hr
Opportunity Summary: Minnesota Children's Museum's downtown St. Paul location has 74,000 square feet of exhibits space, in addition to being a leading producer of exhibit rentals for children's museums and having the largest collection of traveling exhibits on the road. The Exhibit Fabrication Intern will assist exhibit production staff in the fabrication and design of exhibits, installation of exhibitions, and exhibit repair and maintenance. Interns will be given the opportunity to exercise and strengthen their existing skills, to develop new skills of exhibit making, and to exercise responsibility, creativity and imagination. The internship requires hours to be completed at the museum.
Essential Functions:
Assist in fabrication of exhibit components.
Assist in exhibit design process.
Install/uninstall traveling exhibits.
Clean, repair and maintain museum exhibit components.
Assist in maintaining exhibit shop.
Must have working knowledge and experience with power and hand tools and the ability to use them safely. (Examples: table saw, band saw, routers, miter saw, drills, etc. Prior carpentry and machine shop experience a plus.)
Working knowledge of CAD and CNC machines. Services and materials like photos and illustrated images, text is a plus.
For a full description of this opportunity and/or to apply, go to the job posting.
Job Title: Universal Television Entertainment Group Digital & Design Internships – Summer 2026
Organization Name: NBCUniversal
Wage/Salary: $19/hr
Opportunity Summary: The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day. Universal Television Entertainment is responsible for world-class television entertainment. The division programs and markets content across leading entertainment brands Bravo, NBC and Peacock, and produces over 3,000 hours of television annually through Universal Studio Group, the studio business comprised of Universal Television, UCP, Universal International Studios and Universal Television Alternative Studio.
The California opportunity features “Entertainment print design” as the main placement. The New York opportunity features more departments for placement, including “Bravo creative, Bravo design, Bravo digital video, entertainment photography, and Peacock brand design.”
November 10 – December 5: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume)
Program Dates: June 1 – August 7, 2026
Time Commitment: 40 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need.
Two location options with different applications:
On-site, based in New York, NY. For this opportunity and/or to apply, go to this job posting.
On-site, based in Studio City, CA. For this opportunity and/or to apply, go to this job posting.
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