Anthropologie Summer 2018 Internships - Home Design

DESIGN - HOME

Are you interested in an internship in Philly with URBN for the summer of 2018?  Now is your chance! We are currently accepting applications to receive an invitation to the URBN Internship Interview Day that will take place in early January 2018.

CREATOR: You are innovative, inventive, artistic, and detail oriented.

Design Intern Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of product
• Organize samples and trims
• Set up and maintain design books
• Work with overseas factory shipments

Qualifications

• Hand sketching skills as well as ability to sketch or to communicate design ideas via CAD
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with partners in Merchandising, Buying, Production, and Design
• Ability to respond to business objectives with creative, innovative, and cost-effective design solutions
• Ability to research and report on industry trend direction, color direction, and fabric innovations approximately 9-12 months ahead of season
• Ability to recognize and accurately forecast fashion and cultural trends as they relate to the target customer

What to Submit

(1) Resume

(2) Fall 2018 Design Brief (8.5 X 11 PDF)

• Study our customer and design a concept board for the fall 2018 season showing a fashion trend based upon your understanding of our customer and product
• It is up to you which classification of the home area you’d like to focus your project on (i.e. textiles, furniture, tabletop, etc.)
• The board should touch upon trending fashion silhouettes, pattern direction, and color palette.  Please include image tears, trims, fabric qualities, knit downs, and/ or anything you feel is relevant to convey your point of view.
• Pull one idea from your concept board and create 5 hand-drawn home design sketches (front, side, and back) based around this idea to demonstrate your research abilities, ability to develop a concept, as well as your artistic hand.
• This is the creative part of the application so have fun with it!

***Please be sure to include your portfolio and/or links to your personal web site for us to check out!!***

How to Submit

• Please create 1 PDF that contains the two pieces of your application (resume and design brief) and upload it to the Resume section of your online application.

• Once you have submitted your complete application online you will receive an email invitation to complete a video interview for the position. This video interview must be completed within 2 days from the time you receive the invitation so be on the lookout for the video interview email.

  ***Please note it may take up to 2 weeks to receive the video interview invitation from our system, so please be patient!***

The “Fine Print”

Applications must be received by Sunday, December 3rd, 6:00 PM EST. Applications received after the deadline or those that are incomplete are not guaranteed to be reviewed.

***Please DO NOT apply for more than one Brand and/or internship position – if you do so your application will be disqualified.***

 If you are selected for an in person interview, you will be notified on or before December 20th, 2016 with the details for our Internship Interview Day. If you are unable to attend our recruiting day, we will try to accommodate you at another time, but cannot guarantee it. You MUST be selected for an interview in order to attend the recruiting day – if you aren’t on the list, you won’t get to interview with us. Sorry, no exceptions.

Thanks for your interest in the URBN Inc. Internship Program!