Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Junior to middleweight designer - Brighton

Junior to middleweight designer
filthymedia is a graphic design studio based in the North Laine of Brighton UK working across a broad range of design projects for diverse clients. Our work includes everything from print, branding, digital and web.

The role:
We are looking for a diverse, young and creative designer to work full-time in our small but busy studio. You will need to be confident at taking on projects yourself and happy to handle briefs from concept through to delivery. You will also be able to produce fully print ready artwork. The chosen designer will play a key role in the future development of the company.

Skills & Responsibilities:
– Excellent in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
– Good knowledge of typography, layout, colour and grid set up.
– Good idea generation and concept.
– Diverse portfolio.
– Exceptional attention to detail.
– Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
– Understanding of print management.
– Good knowledge of current trends and fashions.
– Good Time-keeping.
– Strong communication skills.
– Any experience in moving image or web design would be a bonus.

How to Apply:
This is a full time opportunity based in Brighton. Please take a good look at our site for more information on us. Please apply with a CV, covering letter and low-res portfolio PDF (under 5mb) and a web link if you have it to folio@filthymedia.com

Please explain how you would be suitable for the position at filthy. No agencies please.

Design Intern, Mission Media Ltd, London

Design Intern

Mission Public Relations (www.thisismission.com) are looking for a talented intern to join their small in-house graphic design department.

The successful candidate should be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, have great attention to detail and most importantly be happy working at a quick pace.

You will be working across a variety of projects – visualising ideas, creating layouts, preparing documents for current and prospective clients and updating the design dept. blog.

Please send your CV and a sample of your best work, Subject: DESIGN INTERN, to interns@thisismission.com

Creative Artworker - Life Agency, Birmingham

Creative Artworker
Rapidly growing, Life Agency is seeking a skilled creative artworker to bolster the studio team.

Working across a range of large, blue chip clients mainly in the FMCG and retail sector, the ideal candidate will be able to show a book with diversity and creative craft.

The role will involve some design capability, layout work using templates and style sheets, retouching and taking projects through the whole production process ready for print.

Working across various media you may also be required to produce 3D visuals for large format POS.

Applicants will need to have strong experience of the above along with fluency in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Flash would also desirable.

You will be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, will have an excellent eye for detail and the ability to work quickly and accurately.

This is an excellent chance to work within a friendly team and will give you the chance to have a real creative input in the process.

Life Agency offer a competitive salary, unrivalled benefits package and a professional yet inspirational environment to work in.
Please apply with your CV and work samples to nicola.kleinmann@lifeagency.co.uk

Designer, The Skinny—Edinburgh

DESIGNER
The Skinny is looking for a graphic designer. We need someone who can work quickly and accurately to lay out the magazine, working to tight deadlines. We want someone with a keen eye for detail who can problem solve, and think creatively to present the content in the slickest way possible even when time is tight.

The person we are looking for must have experience in:

• Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign and Photoshop as well as Microsoft Office
• Working in design for the publishing industry (minimum 1 year)
• Content mangement systems
• Working to deadlines

We would be delighted if they were experienced in:

* CSS and HTML
* Web design
* Subediting

The post is part time, salary from 14K pro rata (negotiable dependent on experience). If you would like to apply, please send a CV, a cover letter and two examples of your design work to jobs@theskinny.co.ukby 9am on Mon 18 June.

Experienced Freelancer - Ideas Factory, Wimbledon, SW London

Experienced Freelancer
We need an experienced freelancer for a few weeks from Monday to help out on a few lovely projects.

Ideas Factory are a boutique studio based in Wimbledon, SW19 (only 20mins from Waterloo) specialising in premium property, travel and interiors brands.

If you’re interested, email jonathan@ideasfactory.co.uk with a PDF folio or link to a website and also include your day rate.

Mid Level Graphic Designer - TBA, Euston London

Mid Level Graphic Designer
We are looking for an enthusiastic graphic designer with a minimum of two years’ experience. This exciting new role will support us across the business, and we are looking for someone who is experienced working with InDesign and Photoshop, as well as Powerpoint, and with some experience of Web design and an understanding of print. Experience of working within the constraints of clients’ corporate identities would be an advantage.

Key roles and responsibilities will include:
• Design of pitch documents, working to tight deadlines
• Design of powerpoint presentations
• Design of graphic elements for pitch proposals, including event identities and visuals of identity applications
• Design of branded collateral
• Sourcing and creating appropriate imagery to illustrate documents and presentations
• Becoming a source of design knowledge and inspiration for other members of the team
• Liaising with visualisers and 3D designers
• Becoming the ‘guardian’ of the TBA brand across the company

You will need to be able to take direction from a number of sources and work quickly to tight deadlines, with some long hours.

You will also need to be a fast learner, and be able to manage your own time, with an understanding of the business enabling you to prioritise workflow.

If you have design flair, lots of enthusiasm and a great portfolio, please apply today with your CV and portfolio to opportunities@tbaplc.co.uk

Designer - Ideas factory, London

Calling all designers
Following on from a number of new business wins, we’re in need of a number of talented designers.

We’re after designers with 2/3 years experience minimum with a background in print, eye for detail and a passion for beautifully crafted, considered design.

We’re interested in hearing from freelancers and permanent roles so feel free to drop me a line with a PDF folio or link to a website.

jonathan@ideasfactory.co.uk
www.ideasfactory.co.uk

Web designer Birmingham

Kickass Web Designer
We’re looking for a kick-ass web designer who likes challenges.
£20-30K p/a based on experience.

Are you our silver bullet?
This is a rare opportunity to become a significant part of an exceptional business.

We have a reputation for building and maintaining great looking, well-constructed websites, applications and design work for businesses including fast-moving startups and long-established firms.

We’re only small, but work with loads of different clients, and whoever fills these shiny new boots needs to be able to design and build great looking, engaging website experiences with a very high attention to detail.

As an ideal candidate, you will have have a great portfolio of web design work. Previous commercial experience is preferred, but is not essential as long as your work is stellar and you can demonstrate nous. Our HTML/CSS is standards based, so you need to write good sensible markup, understand responsive design and modern web technologies, and have a thorough understanding of the possibilities of HTML5. You definitely work on creative things in your spare time.

On a day to day basis, you will need to plan, design and implement high quality user experiences for desktop and mobile, as well as refine or enhance existing ones.

You will need to liaise with clients to meet their design expectations and achieve their business-led goals. If you have any experience with version control, PHP or WordPress, that’s a really big bonus.

We value discussion and knowledge. We expect you will learn stuff here, and we’d like to learn stuff from you.

If you have any other talents, let us know.

You would be working in our beautiful, light and spacious Grade II listed studio on St Paul’s square in Birmingham’s vibrant Jewellery Qtr.

The successful candidate will be furnished with a healthy budget to purchase new hardware, software and attend conferences.

Strictly no agencies please.

Had you been working here in the past 12 months

You would have been working on…
Designing complete web experiences for a mixture of rapidly growing, new and established businesses
Working with clients to develop solutions tailored to their audiences to understand and meet their goals
Constantly experimenting with new ideas and cutting edge web design techniques
Designing and developing new client brands
Creating offline artwork to supplement client brands

How To Apply

Please send your letter of interest, CV and examples of work to join@higgsdesign.com

For the full job details, please see http://www.higgsdesign.com/jobs

The Voyage

21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012 from 10.00pm
Free outdoor performance spectacle in Birmingham's Victoria Square.

An enormous ship sails into the centre of Victoria Square, Birmingham, docking itself beside the city’s Town Hall. High above the people who gather to look at this marvel, dancers and aerialists appear in the ship’s rigging – the voyage begins.

Professional dancers and aerialists join forces with a huge amateur choir, live musicians and more than 140 community performers to transform the Square and tell the story. Watch the action unfold onboard the ship and be caught up in the atmosphere on the ground, where seagulls swoop and travellers prepare to embark on their journey. The ship sets sail, the Town Hall is transformed by spectacular projected imagery and the city’s skyline becomes a dream of undiscovered worlds.

This outdoor multimedia spectacle is created by Motionhouse, one of the UK’s foremost dance theatre companies, and world-renowned physical theatre company Legs On The Wall, from Australia. Produced by Birmingham Hippodrome, and with original film projections from award winning Logela Multimedia, it’s a free event 
http://www.thevoyage.org.uk/

Early researchers conference

This years early researchers conference is taking place on Wednesday 13th June and the School of Art and Design has 5 speakers, including Dr Louise Fenton. 

Her talk is titled 'Cultural Hybrids: Tales of Voodoo and Witchcraft in Jamaica and Salem'. Her research examines the merging of Voodoo and Witchcraft in the stories that permeate Jamaica and Salem. There is an examination of Annie Palmer in Jamaica who was known as the White Witch of Rose Hall, literary representations created an image of a wicked slave mistress, a Voodoo practitioner who was known as a witch. The Great House is open as a tourist attraction and guides perpetuate the stories of Annie Palmer and her murderous past. In Salem the Witch Trials form a major part of the history of the town and the numerous museums attest to this period attracting large numbers of tourists every year. The witches were accused based on the words of a few children who listened to the tales of a Voodoo slave. This research questions the complexity of the representations and the confusions that they cause, it examines the difference between myth and reality.

"It would be great to see students and alumni attending my talk. I'm speaking at 2.30pm in MI001 and all are welcome" says Louise