Help test, iterate and design a intentional living brand inspired by Japanese and East Asian philosophy

Lolo x Design Lab is looking for entrepreneurial and creative interns to help shape shōkkakō: Small (Certain) Happiness, a design-led brand focused on intentional living, sensory experiences and individual fulfilment and wellbeing. This is an opportunity to apply business design, service design, and digital strategy to a real-world brand in its early stages.

LoloxDesign Lab: A Strategic Design Lab where design meets multidisciplinary expertise to empower meaningful change. It leverages the synergy between Design and multidisciplinary fields to support change-makers in realising meaningful change across three dimensions of the human system—individuals as leaders, organisations, and society.

shōkkakō Small (Certain) Happiness: A brand dedicated to nurture a sensitivity to life’s quiet, subtle, and often unexpected joys, helping people cultivate an awareness of meaningful moments that bring fulfilment. Through sensory products, playful reminders, and thoughtful experiences, the brand encourages an intentional yet lighthearted approach to self-discovery—one that empowers individuals to notice, appreciate, and create happiness in the present.

What You’ll Be Working On

🔹 Creative Direction & Audio Visual Stream:

• Interpret and expand on existing brand strategy and create digital visual content align with both new design research insight and the existing strategy

  • by applying various medium to tell brand story of Small Certain Happiness in everyday life (Video, audio, print design and production).

• Work on improving web and digital presence via custom HTML & CSS (Shopify experience a plus).

• Iterate brand creative and content strategy based on insights from experiments.

Who You Are:

✔️ Sensibility to visual and audio medium storytelling and community engagement.

✔️ Appreciation for Nordic and East Asian Aesthetics.

✔️ Background and strong interest in the areas of creative direction, graphic design, photography, videography, audio production (as shown in work portfolio).

✔️ Interested in mindfulness, individual happiness and fulfilment, and intentional living (a plus but not required).

✔️ Can dedicate 8 hours per week on your work over 6 months.

✔️ Can speak and write English fluently. Any other language skills is a plus.

What You’ll Gain:

✅ Hands-on experience in building a design driven brand and business dedicated to individual happiness.

✅ Exposure to design driven and human centred innovation & iterative strategy making approach.

✅ A chance to co-create and shape a meaningful brand from the ground up.

✅ Professional career coaching sessions can be provided by ICF certified coach that could help you reach your career goals after the internship.

*This position provides no monetary compensation at this point in time. Business related expenses will be covered upon agreement.

How to Apply:

You can apply through submitting your CV, portfolio with a few sentences about how you would like to leverage this internship for your personal life and or your career development.

If you have any portfolio of past work, please do not hesitate to share. Please reach out via email if you have any questions.

To ensure that we can respond to every single applicant, we will close the role once we receive a reasonable pool of candidates to assess.