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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