nim Design Internship

March 31, 2023

nim creative

The Opportunity

Our internship is designed to give students real life experience and teach them the fundamentals of working in a studio. Our goal is to develop your creative thinking, tighten up execution, and build confidence in communicating design.

We are hunt for design interns who loves create. You have be excited about pushing the boundaries of design and ready to jump head first into a newly growing brand agency. There are killer opportunities to get some solid industry experience and really get a feel for what it’s like to work in a creative agency.

You will learn about brand strategy, conceptualising, Test your skills in sketching logo and design ideas and - most importantly - you will nail the fundamentals of design. This job is built to give design interns a well-rounded taste of the creative industry while levelling up on the skills they have..

A massive ‘must’ for this role is to be a good human! Ready to learn, ready to help out, and bring in some positive vibes.

This internship will work around your studies with the idea of having students in the studio for 8-12 hours per week for 3 months (12 weeks). This is an internship where interns will be paid a portion of the total hours worked based on the structure of 70% learning and agency experience and 30% working on real life projects.

Students can be offered paid part-time work in our junior programme after the internship if they are the right fit for the agency.

The Agency

We are nim, a brand strategy, and design agency based in Newmarket, Auckland. Combining psychology, strategy, and creativity we turn ambitious Kiwi businesses into market-leading brands. We’ve been in the game for 4 years, and we are a small team looking to grow in a big way and give back to our community.

The Deets

These opportunities are the first steps into building our new look brand agency. We are partnering with NZ colleges and universities to give the designers of tomorrow a real taste of the industry.

You will be working within the design team and learning what it takes to build a brand. From concept to creation and application, we will teach you the skills you need to take a brand to market.

All design interns don’t be afraid - we get it - you won’t be stepping in with a heap of experience, as long as you are a good human bringing the following to the table we are sure you’ll be fine!

You can draw!
Positive and motivated attitude
A love for creating
A decent level of conceptualising
A high-level execution
Good knowledge of the full Adobe CC Suite
It would be nice if you have an understanding of UI and UX
Web design skills
Enjoys being part of a team and connecting with others
Keen to learn new skills
If you are dabbling in the Ai space too, well… BONUS!

The stuff you will learn from the internship

Brand strategy - being in a room for live Brand Workshops with clients
Conceptualising - understanding how to develop concepts and build visual communication
Layout and typesetting - learn the fundamentals of type and layouts within marketing assets
Market asset roll out - Translating design across different pieces of marketing assets
Building guidelines and consistency - how to build guidelines to ensure consistency for future use
Building a brand culture - learn how to use values to create experiences that articulate culture to customers

Why work here

We are a brand agency turning a very exciting corner. We have a name and now is the time to bring in the key members to help us get to that next level. We are ready to become a big player and our goals will see us break into new countries. We need to bring more fresh thinking, creativity, and energy into the business and start working more with educational organisations. That’s where you come in.

We are a small team going through a big change to make some serious noise. We work with great people to create epic brands for great businesses and now we need more great people!!!