Trainee Designer - MR PORTER

Trainee Designer

MR PORTER – a dedicated men’s wear site from the NET-A-PORTER group is the first global shopping destination of its kind. MR PORTER offers an edited product selection of the best in men’s style, from global designer labels to niche specialist brands alongside original editorial and style advice. MR PORTER is powered, curated, edited and served by an independent world class team who benefit from the global infrastructure of the NET-A-PORTER group, a site with ten years of online luxury retail experience delivering to over 170 countries worldwide.

The Role:

We are looking for a talented Trainee Designer to ensure the MR PORTER editorial, merchandising and sales content is brought to life with unique, user friendly, high quality design, without jeopardising site performance.

” During New York Fashion Week, editors and stylists weren’t talking about the runway; they were all a-twitter (literally and figuratively) about the arrival of MR PORTER. The Y chromosome to NET-A-PORTER” GQ USA
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Responsibilities:

• Sophisticated sense of typography and an understanding of its relevance to a good design both online and offline.
• Should be aware of trends and new ideas and should be able to interpret those into fantastic creative.
• Meet stringent deadlines while having the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Ensure that image jpeg quality is at maximum on all pages designed as well as fonts and type are all readable on a range of web design requirements.
• Working on HTML emails and promotional emails when required.
• Sourcing images as required
• Development of technical skills to stay abreast of software changes.
• Retouching images as required.
• Supporting the Art Director
• Any other ad hoc duties within Art dept/Editorial when needed.

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Essential Skills & Requirements

• Proven design experience.
• Solid experience of working across a range of web design projects from websites to new media and print.
• Ability to work quickly from concept creation to finished product
• Must be detail-oriented, deadline driven, and able to multi-task with solid organizational, time management, and follow through.
• Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines.
• Photoshop skills.
• Proficient knowledge of Illustrator and Indesign.
• Pro-active and able to show initiative/ideas to constantly improve the editorial quality of the site.
• Self-motivated.

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To Apply:

http://tinyurl.com/ccq58f2

Creative Artworker - Leeds

Creative Artworker Opportunity…

…we’re looking quite busy at the moment, so we’re looking for a bit of a creative all-rounder.
Ideally, we would like an artworker with at least 3/4 years agency experience, who can twiddle all the relevant buttons producing creative and accurate artwork.
But if you also know your way around a bit of HTML and CSS then that would be a tremendous bonus.
If you’ve got the skills and are looking for a rewarding challenge then please email or write to:

Adam Bailey Cooke, PCD Agency, 5 The Courtyard, Thorpe Lane, Guiseley, Leeds LS20 8LG

Email: adam@pcdagency.com

Mint crafts products - Designer

Visual Designer

Mint crafts products designed to inform, entertain or delight and hopefully make people’s lives a little bit better along the way. The Studio within Mint is a cross disciplinary team of creatives, strategists and designers, working in unison to invent and bring our creative vision to life.

We are now looking to add a new visual designer to the team.

Design at Mint is all encompassing. The majority of your work will be designing for the web and mobile, but with the breadth of what Mint makes, you’ll have the opportunity to dip into print, animation and even product design with the likes of Olly. You will be designing for wherever the future takes us. For that journey, we need someone who is broadly talented across design and will recognise this breadth as an opportunity.

The work will involve a balance of client work and developing new Mint products. Everyone at Mint has the opportunity to develop ideas for new Mint products. We’re not afraid to try things we haven’t tried before either: Stickygram, now a thriving Mint business, was one recent idea.

The studio environment is one of collaboration. You will often find you spend more time discussing and sketching than sitting in front of your computer. We question every design decision we make, so you need to be comfortable with having your opinions challenged, as well as ready to challenge the opinions of your colleagues.

A strong visual sense honed over 1-3 years of professional experience will play a key role in our selection, but we would also be looking to see an understanding of how users interact with technology.

We’re a small team doing big things. You will have every chance to make a difference and shape our output. Creative work always involves collaboration and how we gel together as a team is a key consideration. We hope to work with the right person for years to come.

We look forward to talking. Email us at utku@mintdigital.com

Office/Marketing Assistant

Office/Marketing Assistant

We are looking for someone with an understanding of, or empathy for

the creative industries as well as wider media frameworks. Someone organised
with initiative and ideas, who can work towards a goal independently or
under direction, solo or as part of a team, bringing a fresh viewpoint.

More at: http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/#/blog

BFI Film Classic competition

Next year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, which introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. 

To mark this anniversary, we are publishing special editions of 12 BFI Film Classics in August 2012, with individual covers designed by artists whose work we admire. We are thrilled to be launching a competition, in association with Creative Review, open to students at UK art schools and colleges to create an original artwork for the cover of Mark Sanderson’s BFI Film Classic on Nicolas Roeg’s seminal film Don't Look Now. Students are encouraged to interpret the themes, characters, locations or motifs of the film to create an original artwork in any medium, in one, two or full colour. 

The judging panel are looking for an emerging talent who best interprets the film to produce an original artwork that will feature on the anniversary edition of the book and in our high-profile publicity campaign for the series anniversary. The competition is being organised in association with Creative Review, who will take part in the judging process and, as part of the prize, will offer a 1 year subscription to the magazine as well as feature coverage on their website.

Anna Sims - graduate success

Levi Pinfold

‘Picture This! 

Illustrating Children’s Books’ 

Illustration graduate Anna Sims curates the exhibition 

Gallery Oldham from 26 November until 11 March 2012. 

The show includes work by picture book household names like Shirley Hughes and Anthony Browne as well as emerging artists like the winners of the Booktrust Best New Illustrators award 2011. It was important to me to include illustrators with different styles and those featured in the exhibition include Jez Alborough, Kazuno Kohara and Helen Stephens. 

Tony Meeuwissen

As well as the completed artworks there are a number of examples of the preparatory work by the different artists including sketchbooks, thumbnail layouts, character development and printer proofs. It’s been interesting finding out about the different ways the artists work and I hope that it comes across in the exhibition and gives the visitor a better idea about the work behind the finished product.

http://www.galleryoldham.org.uk/exhibitions/picture_this.htm 

After graduating from Wolverhampton University in 2001 I soon realised that my strength lay in working creatively with groups rather than on my own in my studio. After three years of voluntary work and freelance jobs with various youth projects, community groups, art galleries and heritage sites I moved to Manchester where I completed a Masters in Art Gallery & Museum Studies. 

I have been working in gallery and museum education for the last 7 years and am currently responsible for the formal education programme at Gallery Oldham. As well as delivering workshops and projects I also develop educational resources and 'gallery interactives'. 

This exhibition obviously was a subject that held a lot of interest for me and also fitted into the Gallery’s strategic programming for family friendly exhibitions. It was challenging at times as it is the first exhibition of this scale that I have curated and I have borrowed the work directly from the artists. 

In 2008, I took a career break for 12 months to work on an art project in Ecuador and Mexico with a charity for street-working children and their families. I spent last summer running an art project with a different charity in Guatemala and hope to eventually return to Latin America.


Alice Melvin

Letterpress Induction Workshops - update

There are still a few places left on the Letterpress induction workshops at the Black Living Country Museum. See our earlier post for more information:

http://visualcommunicationwolverhampton.blogspot.com/2011/11/letterpress-induction-workshops-at.html

Booking, in advance is essential.

Digital Presentations Designer - London

Digital Presentations Designer

We’re looking for a middle weight creative to join our busy and expanding innovative presentations design team in Hoxton, London.

We’re not your typical Hoxton design studio though…we’re a PowerPoint using, PC based studio and proud of it…working with the worlds largest brands on a daily basis, pushing the expectations and capability of PowerPoint and loving it!

The role will involve taking briefs, designing presentation visual concepts, laying out content and adding, sometimes simple, sometimes complex animations to bring the presentation and story to life. You will be responsible for client liaison so communication skills are key. You will need to be a great time manager and it’s really important that you work well under tight deadlines.

As an integrated marketing agency our offering covers a variety of creative and technical deliverables so although the role is predominantly presentation design, there are a lot of opportunities to work on the print, digital and online projects too.

Other must haves for any candidate include:
- Strong design skills in both print and interactive platforms
- The ability to use Photoshop and Illustrator CS5 to a high standard
- A good understanding and ability to use In-Design CS5
- Team spirit and eagerness to get stuck in to all projects
- A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience

There are some applications we’d love you to know how to use, but aren’t essential:
- PowerPoint – any previous experience would be great, but we’ll happily give you training on this if not
- Ability to use other Adobe applications in CS5 including Dreamweaver, After Effects, Flash
- Artworking skills
- IT skills
- Knowledge of file formats, for example video formats and their uses

To apply please send your CV, portfolio examples, and tell us briefly about a or some design projects you have been involved in.

Please apply to Work@article10.com

Design Internship - East London

Digital Design Internship

We are looking for a Design Intern to work in our small digital design studio in East London.

Ideally we would like a digital communication design graduate with strong graphics background OR an all rounder with HTML, Javascript and CSS, PHP, MySQL, AS3, JQuery, and bla bla bla… Most importantly is we like you and you like us.

Please send CVs to Minnie
email: minnie@monkiki.co

Junior Graphic Designer - Voice, Leicestershire

Junior Graphic Designer

Voice is a small, highly focused creative agency based in rural Leicestershire. By combining high level creative delivery with expert business thinking, we apply a ‘real world’ methodology to ensure that our clients products and services achieve their goals. We have an international mix of clients and our disciplines range from brand and marketing strategy, design for print, on-line, mobile, high end image retouching and art direction.

We are looking for a very talented junior designer to join our team. You will have a design degree and/or up to two years experience working in a deadline-driven agency environment. You should be confident working as part of a team and have the aptitude to take on projects from concept through to delivery. Your attention to detail must be flawless and you should possess a passion for print and digital projects.

You should be extremely proficient at using Adobe CS including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. A knowledge of HTML, CSS and web technologies would be a bonus.

If you are interested, please email your CV and some of your best work (PDF, no more than 7mb) over to tim@voicebranddesign.com – stating why you are the individual that can make a difference.