Gametime Internship

In August 2025, while I was still a graphic design student at CSU East Bay, I became an intern for Gametime, a ticket app known for its last minute deals and cheap prices. I became a member of the creative team, and was tasked with creating a wide variety of ads for Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit.

Alongside the creative team, I also became part of the marketing team. I learned the connection between the creative and marketing team, and how they work together to advertise for the app. Not only was I creating the ads, but I was advertising them as well through different social media platforms, and helping the creative and marketing team test which ads tested positively versus which ones tested negatively.

To this day, I work at Gametime as a creative and marketing intern, and have learned so much in my time here. I feel as if this real world experience has opened my eyes to what the graphic design industry is really about, and has helped me improve as a designer. I understand what it means to communicate a specific message using a specific style, and how to communicate those messages in a way that people will understand. It’s also been interesting to see each day how the industry is changing and how we, as a company and as individual designers, adapt to that change. The design world and social media trends are fleeting, and it’s up to us as designers to keep up.