Design Internship for APPLY stickers!

Apply is a Brooklyn-based consumer brand & creative studio that makes extraordinary stickers.

We’re obsessed with the creative & commercial possibilities of stickers, enabling anyone to personalize the things they love & use every day. We’re reimagining this loved global product category with our exceptional creative team, alongside iconic licensing partners – from Andy Warhol to Snoopy. Our products are found at some the world’s best retailers such as REI, Blick, MoMA Design Store, The Broad, among hundreds of other museum stores, bookstores, and speciality shops.

Most importantly, we’re just getting started & are growing our creative team to build on our success as a category-defining retail brand.

About the Design Internship

Design Interns have played an important role on the Apply Creative Team (a.ka. “The #Stickerteam”), with two of our wonderful Designers, Brenda & Luka, graduating from their Apply internships during college to full-time roles on our team. We’re seeking a part-time Design Intern (20-30 hours / week) to support the ins & outs of sticker-making, brand-building, and creative operations. The Design Internship will run for 12 weeks (tentatively 6/2/25 – 8/22/25). Successful Interns will be considered for a continued design internship with Apply during the Fall ‘25 Semester.

You’re a perfect fit if you are:

• Currently Second or Third-Year Design Student: with a focus in Graphic Design, Communication Design, Art Direction / Advertising, Photography, Digital Media / Digital Design, Industrial Design / UI + UX Design
• Highly Detail-Oriented: this role is mission-critical to bring our products successfully from concept to reality. Excellence in this role requires obsessing with the details, double-checking work, and proactive communication.
• Fluent with Adobe Creative Suite: including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Lightroom.
• Fluent with Figma: this is where the bulk of creative planning, product development, and creative reviews take place.
• Familiarity with Notion: our project management and team planning space.
• Familiarity with Shopify: basic familiarity with product upload tasks (image, copy, and metafield enrichment) as well as site-wide merchandising tools (collections, tagging and metafield tools). Basic understanding of html/css is a plus!
• A self-guided learner, with a passion for graphic design, fine art, product design, and creative operations.
• Comfortable with a Hybrid / Remote Work: our design team is distributed and has worked closely in this way for now 4+ years. The Design Intern will either work entirely remotely, or if NYC-based 1 day / week at our Brooklyn HQ in Dumbo. The Design Intern will observe general working hours (10-6pm EST), with the exact working schedule determined at the commencement of the summer.

What You’ll Do:

The Design Intern will partner with our designers & creative team on a range of creative & operational projects including but not limited to:

• Supporting Sticker Design Projects: preparing print files to ensure our digital designs translate flawlessly to the printed page. Tasks here will include preparing print, size, and color tests for products in development. Setting-up print files in Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator Files (adding die lines in compliance with our press tolerances, adding bleeds, designing branded back-prints).
• Drafting Production Orders: setting up sticker production orders for our press with notes to our press team around material, size, color.
• Setting Up New Products on Shopify: pushing new sticker products live on Shopify, including preparing and uploading product imagery and copy.
• Designing Marketing Assets: including branded emails, sales collateral, and web & social assets.

You will love working at Apply, because:

• You will be taken care of:
  • Pay: you will receive a competitive internship wage ($20 / hour)
  • Lots of fun sticker samples to play with 🙂
• We will accelerate your career:
  • We will invest in your training & growth, working directly alongside the company’s principal designers and creative leadership on projects for some of the most notable museums (i.e. MoMA, The Broad) and living artists (Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer among others).
  • Interns will have the opportunity to work on a range of projects to enrich their portfolio.
  • Successful Interns will be considered for continued term-time roles on the Apply creative team.
• What could be more fun? After all, we’re in the stickers business! Our job is to make things that make people proud and happy, in partnership with some of the coolest institutions & artistic collaborators imaginable.

How to “Apply” for the Design Internship : )

Please submit the following to [email protected]:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Link to your Design Portfolio and/or Personal Website
• 2 Minute Video Introduction (using a product like Loom), including but not limited to the following
  1. Your Name
  2. Where You’re From
  3. Your Background in Design
  4. Your Interest in Stickers
  5. What do you look forward to most in potentially working with Apply?
  6. What do you like to do for fun?