Paper Engineering & Origami Design Intern

仕事内容:

Maison Vivienne is looking for an unusually creative designer obsessed with paper, origami, kirigami, folding, movement, and physical mechanisms.

We are developing a new packaging experience for luxury fashion and want to explore what can happen when origami meets product design and couture.

This is not a graphic-design role.

We are looking for someone who loves making things with their hands and can experiment rapidly with paper to create surprising physical interactions.

The Challenge

• Design a paper packaging system that:
• Creates a beautiful and unexpected opening movement
• Can be opened intuitively with one gesture
• Uses primarily paper/cardUses as few components as possible
• Can eventually be inexpensive to manufacture at scale
• Feels sophisticated rather than decorative or gimmicky

Think: Origami × Kirigami × Kinetic Design × Fashion Construction × Packaging Engineering

アピールポイント:

• Hands-on experience developing innovative paper packaging for a luxury fashion business
• Opportunity to take concepts from paper experiments and prototypes to final development
• Experience with origami, kirigami, folding mechanisms, dielines, and packaging engineering
• Understanding of real manufacturing requirements, materials, and production constraints
• Portfolio-worthy work combining product design, paper engineering, and luxury packaging
• Exposure to luxury fashion, packaging innovation, and product development

求める人材:

Qualifications

You might study product design, industrial design, packaging, architecture, fashion construction or paper engineering.

More importantly, you are someone who:

• Is obsessed with folding and paper structures
• Makes physical prototypes rather than only renders
• Understands or wants to learn dielines and production
• Experiments obsessively
• Can turn a simple sheet of paper into something unexpected
• And enjoys solving mechanical problems with extremely simple materials.

A beautiful portfolio is welcome, but curiosity and inventive thinking matter more.

Initial project

You will receive a physical design brief and create multiple full-scale paper mechanisms. We want quantity before perfection: experiment, fold, cut, fail, rebuild. The strongest concept will then be developed into a refined, manufacturable Maison Vivienne packaging system.

勤務時間・曜日:

Internship Terms

• Duration: Minimum of 6 Months
• Location: Fully remote
• Compensation: Unpaid internship focused on practical learning and hands-on industry experience
• Certification: Letter of recommendation provided upon successful completion of the internship

休暇・休日:

• Flexible working schedule
• Time off may be taken with prior notice
• Please note: This internship does not include paid leave or a formal vacation policy

勤務地:

• Fully remote (work from anywhere)
• No physical office requirement
• No business travel required

アクセス:

• This is a fully remote position with no commuting required
• Work from your preferred location using your own internet connection

給与:

Compensation: This is an unpaid internship intended for educational and professional development purposes

待遇・福利厚生:

• This is a contract-based internship
• No formal employee benefits are provided (e.g., insurance, paid leave, or office perks)
• High-performing interns may be considered for extended contracts or paid opportunities based on performance

その他:

Please send us:

• A short introduction
• Examples of things you have physically made
• Any origami, kirigami, paper engineering, model-making or structural experiments
• A 30–60 second video showing something you have made move, fold, transform or open

Please do not send only graphic-design work. We are looking for someone who can invent with paper.

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