Midweight Graphic Designer (6 month contract)

The Studio

Dynamic and creative design agency working with globally-recognized brands is looking for a talented midweight designer. This agency looks to create cutting-edge experiences, from long-term strategies to pop-ups and installations to flagship stores and is now building the brand design team.

The Opportunity

This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to go permanent. The studio has a hybrid WFH policy (3 days on-site)

Your principal role will be to deliver graphic design projects, providing unique and strategically founded design responses that meet time and budget parameters and exceed client expectations. As a small, close-knit studio you will work across several briefs, pitches, and projects concurrently and be adept at working across all aspects of a project lifecycle, as well as supporting team members, such as briefing and helping to creatively direct freelance staff and guiding and inspiring other team members. There will also be presentation design work. This person will have exceptional presentation, editorial, layout,and information design skills as standard. They should come from a competent brand design background, ideally with experience across brand identity and environmental graphics. Although this person will be multi-faceted, they will be the point person for presentation design in the business, so should be happy/thrive on taking on these tasks. They will work across pitches and projects, so should be an excellent communicators, and able to dive straight into a project and work with multi-disciplinary teams.

The Ideal Candidate

• Will demonstrate the ability to drill down from a client brief to create strong, conceptual work with a clear idea.

• Will have experience in brand, and your portfolio will demonstrate your experience in creating brand comms and campaigns in sectors such as retail, leisure & hospitality.

• You enjoy communicating your ideas, whether in visual form or in presentations and discussions with clients and contractors alike.

• You are entirely confident working end-to-end on a brief and demonstrate a clear understanding of artworking and production processes that informs your design work.

• Strong technical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

• Ideally an advanced degree in art or design, or a related field

• Minimum of 3+ years experience in a similar design role.

• Superior conceptual and technical design skills

• Ability to multi-task and consistently hit deadlines

• Solid communication skills, both written and verbal, including public speaking

• Deep understanding of creative principles and practices

• Integrity and honesty

If interested please send your CV and folio to sam@edenmarsh.co.uk