Position Summary:

IDEO helps companies innovate. We design products, services, environments, and digital experiences for organizations seeking new ways to provide value for their customers. IDEO creates visible and tangible strategies for innovation and executes all aspects of design and development, from conception through production.

IDEO Munich is looking for talented

industrial design interns,

starting September 2010, for 6 months,

who want to be part of the exciting work, creating design in the context of strategic innovation consulting.

You should be able to

• gather research data and translate it into powerful, concise design solutions

• prototype in 3 dimensions and not be afraid of getting your hands dirty in doing so

• deeply understand and appreciate aesthetics, articulate your artistic vision clearly and concisely

• adapt your style to suit the clients’ needs

You won’t

• design for designers - you will design for users!

• operate coffee or photocopy machines

• be a finished designer – here is the place to grow

We would like you to be

• enrolled studying a degree or equivalent in Industrial design

• able to use common layout tools like InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop etc.

• fluent in English, German language skills are a plus

You will benefit from

• working in a team as a full part designer as well as running your own initiatives or helping out with the smaller things

• working with an international world class communication, industrial, and interaction designers and strategists

• enjoying our collaborative cross-disciplinary work style at IDEO

Interested? We’re looking forward to receiving your portfolios (please don’t send printed portfolios). If there's an immediate match between your talents and our needs, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us within 6 weeks, please assume that we do not have an appropriate opportunity at this point.