Creative (Art Director) Intern

<h2>Description </h2> <p><em>We have an opportunity for students with outstanding creative thinking and a strong eye for visual design. If you’ve got ideas coming out of your ears, can work up tight visuals, are keen to work at the intersection of creativity and tech—and want to take your skills to the next level, read on. This is a paid internship for 32–40 hours p/week for 4–6 months.</em></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>During your internship, you’ll work in a larger creative team and partner with a Copywriter Intern. Existing teams are very welcome—get your Copywriter to apply here, referencing you.</li> <li>As an Art Director in a creative duo, you will come up with compelling concepts for ad campaigns that align with the client’s strategy, goals, timings and budget with innovative executions, adhering to brand guidelines.</li> <li>Working on assignments big and small, you could contribute to anything from <a href="https://winners.webbyawards.com/2022/websites-and-mobile-sites/general-websites-and-mobile-sites/television-film/218264/netflix-the-witcher--welcome-to-the-continent">digital experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.lbbonline.com/news/mesmerising-dancers-take-over-the-arabian-desert-in-dreamy-cenomi-spot">films</a>, <a href="https://www.omen.com/us/en.html">e-commerce</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/403289367">VR experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamonks.com/blog/2019/09/how-f1-races-puma-into-the-future-of-retail">installations</a> and more. </li> <li>You’ll join a larger (27-strong) team of talented <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroenvandermeer1">Senior</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinemichaelis/">Creatives</a> (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/purvamichaels/">Art</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/radhapleijsant/">Directors</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bibibliekendaal/">Copywriters</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinemichaelis/">Creative</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsdewit/">Directors</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadiedemaioribus/">Strategists</a>) to learn from, shadow, pitch in and <a href="https://ishetalbiertijd.nl/">share pitchers</a> with. </li> <li>You take initiative, are proactive, and tap into talent around you to hone your skills without much hand-holding. You’ll be supported, given opportunities and agency to take on projects independently.</li> <li>You pay attention to aesthetics and ensure that insights, concepts, and art direction align, make sense, look beautiful, and meet objectives through craft and creative excellence.</li> <li>Ideally you know how to bring your ideas to life visually—through a rough scamp or with Adobe Creative Suite skills.</li> </ul> <h3> </h3> <h3><strong>The perfect candidate doesn’t exist, but you might be just who we’re looking for</strong></h3> <ul> <li>You have EU citizenship and are enrolled in a higher education programme throughout the internship, or are enrolled in the Netherlands &amp; allowed to work here (a hard requirement, sorry).</li> <li>Excellent visual, collaboration, moodboarding skills are required, work experience isn’t.</li> <li>Combining creative and critical thinking, your analytical approach means you ask the right questions and make sense of things from a conceptual perspective. You’re hungry to be better.</li> <li>You can make a case for your work, rationalising choices and considerations to win people over.</li> <li>As part of a constructive feedback loop, you like critique on art direction and want to stretch concepts and visuals to their limit – making the best of brand guidelines.</li> </ul> <h3> </h3> <h3><strong>What joining our team for a season or two looks like</strong></h3> <p>At <a href="https://media.monks.com/">Media.Monks</a> <a href="https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/social-media-agency-year-2021-mediamonks/1755088">Amsterdam,</a> our office is set up for indulging your creativity, with a film studio, edit studio, and experts in almost every creative field to keep you inspired in-house. Perks include free breakfast and lunch (every day), social events and VrijMiBo/DonderMiBo to keep you going.</p> <p><em>Please be attentive to the requirements and accompany your application with an online creative portfolio (consider this an opportunity to demonstrate your creative chops—a first assessment). </em><em><br/></em></p> <p> </p> <p>#LI-FP1</p><p><strong>About Media.Monks:</strong></p> <p>Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to sha