Fresh ID, LLC of Kansas City, MO helps businesses around the world expand their business and reach their goals. By understanding companies from the inside out, Fresh ID designs intelligent solutions and products to help companies do business online and engage with prospects and customers. Brand identity and monitoring, social media consultation and campaigns, web design, site socialization, interactive design, application development and user experience strategy are a few of the services offered by Fresh ID. We have a heavy emphasis on social media marketing and communications.

This position is predominantly design-oriented, and your work will be 80% web-related. Thus, an understanding of web standards and design and typography issues related to web-based design are required. There will be about 20% or less print design. If you can illustrate (by hand or digitally in Illustrator or Freehand) or write clean code, even better! The internship will take place during a 10-week period in the summer of 2010.

Duties:

• Assisting the Chief Creative Officer with the production and design of all Fresh ID and/or client materials, including but not limited to identities, publications, brochures, announcements, advertisements, posters, promotional materials, websites, e-commerce sites, web-based software, etc.
• Conducting research on clients, designers, publications, and other design-related topics.
• Preparation of correspondence, files, and other documents.
• Communication with clients and prospects directly as needed.

Location:

• The position will be located in Kansas City, MO, in the popular arts oriented Crossroads district. Relocation fees are not available – area candidates only will be considered.
• Mostly on-site work – this is not a remote position.

Compensation:

• The design intern will receive a total payment of $1,200 for the 10-week period of full-time work.  Payments will be received after 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 10 weeks.

Candidate Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to be analytical, work well with people, take design instruction to fulfill the art director’s vision as well as work independently and take initiative
• Proficient use of design programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Great eye for, passion for, and experience with all kinds of design and typography – specifically user interface design and usability of websites
• Extreme attention to the finest pixel-accurate details of designing for the web
• Thorough, accurate, organized and efficient work habits
• Capacity to work under tight deadlines and juggle multiple projects

Huge pluses:

• You have very strong, or expert (X)HTML / CSS / JavaScript skills
• You keep up-to-date with web standards and browser issues
• You have expertise with Flash, either hand animating or Actionscript
• You are a great illustrator and can create icon sets and other illustrations
• You are social-media savvy and understand the benefit of popular social networks and how people use them for both personal and business reasons
• You will graduate soon and will be seeking employment with a company like ours!

If you are interested in this position, please submit a resume and portfolio of related work (attachments or links are sufficient) to Matt Bartlett at matt@freshid.com