This is for a 2025 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.

Visual designers communicate intent and meaning through visual experiences to incite understanding and action from people. They translate functions and information into emotionally compelling and desirable experiences.
Their core skills include: Interpreting research insights and building understanding of the subject matter to design for user and market resonance.Designing visual experiences that unify and exemplify the convergence of user/market insights and IBM brand/design language.Translating structural information into visual forms that make information compelling, easier to understand, and actionable.Communicating through nuanced use of color, tone, layout, composition, imagery, typography, interactions, and motion.Unifying all visual elements as part of one experience and one IBM brand philosophy to tell a consistent and compelling narrative.Designing for accessibility and making ideas come to life through imagery and visual representations of concepts at various levels of fidelity.The IBM Research Think Lab is the physical manifestation of the convergence of computing platforms that IBM Research sees as the future of computing. It’s a working lab, where scientists from different domains can work together to shape new ideas and partnerships that likely wouldn’t have occurred by working alone in their own spaces.

The candidate will support the design efforts of the Think Lab design teams. Working on content and experiences, creating graphics and imagery, and supporting our brand system and branded experiences through layout, event, and graphic design.