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Discovery Internships is your personal recruiter.
We use the application process to understand your internship and career interests - and then we market you to prospective employers. At the core, we help employers connect with young, motivated students such as yourself that are interested in working alongside professionals in exchange for gaining real work experience. Sometimes we will utilize employers in our extensive network; often we will actually approach new employers to find YOU the right position. That's right: not an internship; YOUR internship!

   

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Interior Design

Interior Design draws upon many disciplines including architecture, product design, and traditional decoration.  An interior designer is responsible for both decoration and functionality of a client’s space. Spaces can be commercial, industrial, or residential and may include retail boutiques, corporate spaces, hotels, private residences, restaurants, and more. Interior designers work with textiles, fabrics, paints, furniture, and art to create a space to achieve the clients’ goal, whether it is calm, bold, energetic or sophisticated. As a CE interior design intern you could  work closely with architects and their clients to distinguish how the interior of a structure or room will look, feel, and function. 
 

Past CE interior design interns have:


  • Attended  client meetings to negotiate bids and understand client needs
  • Worked on projects using industry specific software such as auto-CAD and Photoshop
  • Learned about product, building, or furniture design, architecture, and traditional decoration.
  • Helped develop designs for retail boutiques, corporate spaces, hotels, private residences, restaurants, and more
  • Attended client and vendor meetings, conducted research on creative products and possible clients
  • Researched and collected vendor samples such as fabric, lighting, and flooring, visiting project sites, and learning about ecologically friendly products
  • And much, much more...
 

Testimonials

Working at my internship at the design firm, I helped set up window displays at the Empire State Building and designed elements for the Empire Hotel. My internship made me realize how badly I want to be in the art and design world
- Hunter
I worked at an interior design and architecture firm. I learned a lot about the design and business worlds and got a lot of experience in what working in NYC is like
- Erika
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