Winter 2022 Creative Internships at The House That Lars Built
The House That Lars Built is a creative design studio and website focused on artful living through beautifully produced, original content. Our goal is to help empower its readers recognize and fill your life with beauty while also providing skills that you can take with you to your next job! We create daily blog content, content for other brands, products, a YouTube channel, and are constantly seeking new ways to create an artful living. We are looking for interns in the following categories:
- Illustration
- Graphic Design/Marketing (3 different positions: Pinterest, Newsletter, Instagram)
- Shopping
- Crafting
- Business
- Content Writing
- E-commerce (product development and Shopify)
- Sewing/Embroidery
- Marketing
- Art Curation
- Creative Director assistant
Click here for in-depth descriptions of what each internship includes!
What’s in it for you?
Here at The House That Lars Built, we are passionate about internships! Brittany herself has completed many internships all around the world, and her experiences are what set her up to turn what started as a graduate project into a full-time growing business.
Things like our top 7 tips for nailing your internship will help you stand out in your field. An internship can (and should) be the gateway to the rest of your creative career. Whether or not your personal brand or your future plans align perfectly with the Lars Brand, your experience writing, designing, or illustrating for an existing brand will build your skills, portfolio, and resume.
As an ever-evolving company, while working with The House That Lars Built you will have hands-on opportunities to adjust what you have studied in a new market and changing economy. Working with a small team will allow everything you do during your internship to be seen, and your impact will be felt and noticed. You will have opportunities to utilize the skills you already have and improve in new areas.
Many of these internships listed above have a long legacy here are the House that Lars Built! Lars Alumni are part of a creative, passionate, and inspired community working to make the world more colorful! As a part of the Lars team, you will instantly have networking opportunities at your fingertips that can be vital to your career in a creative field.
In addition to our long standing internships, we are so excited to have some brand new focuses available! More specific internships such as art curation, newsletter marketing, and e-commerce were created to help you narrow down which direction you want to go in your long-term career. Click here to read more about what these new internships include.
Details on all internships
Interns will specialize in their respective category but all are expected to participate in the following:
- Assisting on photo shoots
- Helping with the general maintenance of the studio
- Running errands and complete shipping tasks
- Writing and brainstorming activities
- participating in training meetings
- assistant duties
Internships are unpaid, but can be used for university credit, in fact we highly encourage this. The applicant will need to work with your university to get it approved.
You must be able to work a minimum of 10 hours per week. We expect a full commitment to the position once you’ve accepted the position. The internship will last from late January 2022-April 2022. Exact days can be flexible.
How to apply
Please email hello@thehousethatlarsbuilt.comwith the subject line INTERN and the desired position. Include your resume and portfolio (can be online, photos, basically anything to help us understand your proficiency and skills) and a cover letter. We will email you back to invite you in for an interview.
Please don’t hesitate to apply! Many of our internships can be specialized to fit both our current needs and your amazing skills!
