Job Description

2025 Design Summer Internship

Capsule is seeking a fresh addition to our team for the summer. Someone who is capable, curious, and motivated to walk the walk, talk the talk, and design the design for brands far and wide alongside our creative team. 

A design internship at Capsule is a unique and coveted 3-month learning opportunity that will give you direct experience working in an agency for interesting and diverse clients. During this internship, you’ll hone your design skills, push your strategic limits, and have an all around fun time solving new challenges and developing exceptional solutions. You’ll get to work side by side with our creative team, with ample opportunities for guidance, mentorship, and collaboration. In addition to supporting our creative team, Design Interns will also get the chance to be exposed to other areas of the business, including supporting Capsule's marketing, strategy, and day to day administrative tasks.

At the end of your internship, you’ll have a wealth of new experiences, connections and portfolio-worthy case studies to prepare you for the next phase of your creative career. 

About You

• Pursuing or achieved a BA/BFA/BS in Graphic Design or related area of study - *seeking college seniors or graduates only at this time
• Strong strategic thinking discipline, with the ability to problem-solve and design with intent 
• Open, curious and fast learner, comfortable dealing with ambiguity 
• Self-starter, able to proactively seek out help or take initiative to seek out more opportunities, and problem solve independently when needed
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, highly collaborative and multiple hat-wearing environment that comes with a small agency
• A collaboratively-minded person, with ability to build on ideas, take direction and feedback and always be a team player
• Strong presentation skills, with ability to tell stories, defend ideas and speak with clarity
• A strong foundational portfolio, showcasing a range of school/passion projects, skill sets and the strategy behind it
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite

Bonus Points

• Experience in digital design, with particular experience in Wordpress or Squarespace
• Experience in packaging structure or graphic design, with exposure to 3D digital prototyping, and/or working with production dielines

Application Details

Along with your resume and design portfolio, please provide an overview about yourself and answer the following questions: 

• Tell us a little bit about yourself and what interests you about this specific internship.
• Based on what you know about Capsule, why do you think you’d be a good fit for Capsule? What is an aspect or unique perspective you think you would bring to the team?
• This is a 3 month internship running from June 2 to August 29, 2025 with a 32 hrs/week expectation Mondays-Fridays. Is this something you can do? 
• This is a hybrid role, with the majority of time being spent in the office with our creative team members to help you get the most hands-on experience. There will be opportunities to work from home remotely as well and will be assessed based on workflows and responsibilities. Is this something you’re willing to do?

All applications are due April 7. 

Send all responses and any questions to Rachel Dille at racheldille@capsule.us

Employment Details

This is a 3-month paid internship position with hybrid working opportunities at our home office in northeast Minneapolis. 

Only candidates with the requested experience will be considered. Candidates who are not US citizens or permanent residents must have authorization to work in the US before applying.

Capsule is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and practice empathy and are committed to inclusion in all forms. Capsule does not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender identity and expression, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

About Capsule

Capsule is a Special Projects Agency founded the year Prince made famous in Minneapolis, MN. 

Our refusal to limit our work to one specific industry, combined with the satisfaction we find from solving problems that others won’t touch with ten foot poles over the past 25 years, has earned us trusted relationships with brands large and small to explore and solve their meatiest design, brand and marketing challenges. 

With over two decades of working for clients across a variety of industries and needs, we specialize in helping brands create and evolve the way they’re experienced. We’ve crafted a new form-factor of chocolate, named a fresh cultivar of apple and built a cannabis seltzer from the brand up. We’ve lifted the shroud from the future of death care, dove into the happiest and healthiest places on earth and examined the intricacies of the hang tag. We’ve helped a legacy shoe brand further spread their wings, transitioned a once discount flooring retailer to a more premium footing and branded an entire region of the Midwest.

We have grown alongside B2B and B2C brands like Patagonia, Hydro Flask, Red Wing Shoes, Herman Miller, Curaleaf and Osprey, becoming a strategic partner and multi-purpose tool solving any challenge that comes our way.

Job Tags

Remote job, Temporary work, Summer work, Summer internship, Local area, Work from home, Home office, Monday to Friday,

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