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The Importance of Design Internships

October 1, 2025

The Importance of Design Internships

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Key Points

  • Combining design and illustration in a portfolio website.

  • Creating tailored presentations to send to internship opportunities that really appeal to the job description and the organization offering the opportunity.

  • How to make all the projects on a portfolio website feel equal.

To Think On

  • Take the time to explore both graphic design and illustration and understand how you would like to use them in your process.

  • How can you add more details and descriptions into your project case studies to communicate your process and the work that went into them?

Actionable

  • Develop a portfolio presentation that you can change the order of depending on who you are speaking with.

  • Choose your 3 strongest projects and really focus on adding more context and descriptions that you can speak about and present.

References

  • Figma – Great for putting together a presentation you can send via link.

meet the design guy

Jon Sorrentino

I'm a product designer partnering with founders worldwide. I've led design at PepsiCo, Barstool Sports and high-growth startups. I believe the best design happens when you keep your hands in the work.

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