Established arts/retail brand are looking for a talented mid-senior digital designer for their team.

This is an opportunity to work closely with content, creative and development teams to deliver outstanding digital campaigns and editorials across multiple channels and touchpoints.  This person would be responsible for developing inventive commercial concepts for the main e-commerce website as well as email and digital marketing campaigns.

Working within a cross-functional team you’ll work from discovery stages through to finished product, ensuring that the outcomes are both customer-centric, visually engaging and fresh.  We’re looking for someone with a strong combination of digital design skills, art direction and a natural ability to interpret wider business needs.  We’d expect you to be familiar with, and confident setting, digital design standards, up to date with digital innovations and brimming over with conceptually creative ideas of course.

Will need significant experience in a similar environment, thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts that deliver commercially effective solutions.

A strong folio of work showing high quality wireframes and designs that demonstrate both creative and technical abilities.

A genuine interest in and understanding of e-commerce, graphics and digital trends.

A naturally strong communicator able to understand, question and articulate design rationale.

A positive attitude and approach, this role would suit someone who thrives on challenges and takes pride in delivering work to the highest standards.

Small design and advertising agency based in North London seeks a middleweight designer to join the team.

This is a well-established studio working with a mix of accounts within the not- for-profit space. A family friendly team that prides themselves in delivering outstanding creative work.

You will be a talented middleweight designer with a can-do attitude. You should be comfortable designing for social media and digital channels as well as for traditional print media and always keen to deliver excellent results for the client. Day to day tasks will be super varied and include: campaigns and advertising, concept visualisation and scamps, creative artworking, typesetting, photo retouching and research. We are looking for a real all-rounder comfortable with design and artwork tasks and responsibilities.

• Degree educated with a focus on design/communication or advertising.
• Multidisciplinary design skills.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• 3+ yrs experience working either for a creative agency as a designer or working for an in-house creative studio.
• A passion/experience working for the not- for- profit sector.
• Excellent skills across Adobe Creative Suite.
• A strong team player
• A keen interest in trends across social media and web design.

Design and marketing agency in North London seeks a senior designer to compliment the current team and help set the tone for the creative direction of the agency.

This studio works collaboratively with their clients to create, build and develop brands. Implementing the very best strategic and creative solutions to help them grow and prosper.

This role would suit a people person with great leadership skills. Reporting into the MD you will be tasked with producing compelling ideas for campaigns and advertising. You will lead conceptually across projects and help to oversee a team of junior and middleweight designers. As this is a small studio you’ll be totally ‘hands on’ as a designer with a love of ‘the craft’ bringing excellent attention to detail and a process orientated approach. You'll be used to taking on projects from scratch and have the ability to juggle a large workload and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Degree educated with a focus on design/communication or advertising.

Experience managing junior/middleweight designers.

Multidisciplinary design skills.

Strong verbal and written communications skills.

7+ yrs experience working either for a creative agency as a designer or working for an in-house creative studio.

A flair for typography and layout design.

Excellent skills across Adobe Creative Suite.

A strong team player

A keen interest in design trends across all channels.

Independent, multi-disciplined agency with a reputation for designing truly innovative and remarkable products, experiences, and services for some of the World’s most well-known brands.  The studio has a strong focus on delivering best in class work which is ambitious, highly creative and meaningful.  They offer a unique and inspiring working environment made up of talented and like-minded people working closely together to achieve the best outcomes.  You’ll have exposure to global clients and work and be well supported with training and development opportunities as well as a strong sense of team collaboration.  Hybrid working offered, with 2-3 days a week in the studio.

We’re looking for an experienced Spatial Designer to play a key role in the creation, design, and development of experiential service solutions across a range of client projects.  You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside clients, architects, and the wider design team to deliver compelling and cohesive experiences that go above and beyond expectations.  You’ll need to have significant experience in space planning, layout design, customer journeys, materiality, and architectural detailing with a strong ability to turn an initial idea into functional and beautiful design solutions.

• Will need previous experience working on retail, hospitality and commercial projects with a portfolio that demonstrates involvement from concept stages through to delivery.
• Has the capability to produce top quality visualisations.
• Is confident using 3D technical design software including SketchUp/VRay, Cinema 4D and VectorWorks.
• Also has impressive sketching ability to communicate ideas visually.
• Is comfortable working directly with clients, architects, and contractors to bring a project together.
• Has impeccable attention to detail.

Leading design and production studio with a reputation for delivering world class window schemes, installations, and brand activations for some of the most well-loved, luxury fashion and retail brands around.  Projects are managed from beginning to end and the in-house workshop oversees every element of the manufacturing and production process, including carpentry, model/prop making and scenic work.  Due to the nature of the role, this person would be mainly studio based for collaboration and oversight of the work.

We’re looking for an established Production Manager with core experience in workshop management and a deep understanding of how to build, make and deliver outstanding displays for windows, in-store pop-ups, and events.  You’ll be managing timelines, budgets and project crews and will have overall responsibility for the project build and quality control, so will need to be knowledgeable about the build process and all that involves.  You’ll probably touch most projects coming through the Studio and will have valuable input defining the approach and planning the production schedule, reviewing risks, and determining the resources required.  This is a fast-paced and rewarding environment where you’ll get exposure to some global brands and produce work that you’re proud of.

• Will need experience in a similar studio environment and be used to working across a number of different projects at a time.
• Should have a deep understanding of the technical build process and how the work is made.
• Is confident planning, coordinating, and controlling the production process of all projects, including briefing departments/crew and monitoring production standards.
• Has significant experience working on window displays, pop-ups, events and installations for fashion, retail, and lifestyle brands.
• Can confidently manage the set-up of displays and builds before they leave the studio for installation.

Creative communications agency seeks a Creative Director [copy] to join with their creative leadership team and take responsibility for the visual output of the studio.

This is an independent central London studio - a full service creative business working with a range of global clients. You will work closely with a CD Art Director and as part of the close- knit design team.

Part of the senior agency team you will contribute to the direction of the business, new biz development and growing opportunities with current clients. You will be driven by the search for the big idea in even the smallest brief and be a master wordsmith crafting powerful and engaging messaging and narrative. You will be a strategic thinker, excelling at the brand challenges and positioning projects. As well as this you will be a big idea campaign creator. Projects will include campaign, tone of voice, naming and brand positioning.  We are looking for someone who is big ideas driven, conceptually strong, understands the requirements of brand AND campaigns. You will need to be strategic thinking, go beyond the brief and really push the work into new and innovative areas.

• An impressive portfolio of multi-channel work.
• Commercially focused with experience working within a creative leadership team.
• Extensive experience developing concepts for brand identity ideas and advertising campaigns. The ability to think across brand world as well as ad focused.
• Leadership skills in order to hire, develop and oversee a small creative team.
• Excellent communications skills [written and verbal] and confident presentation skills in order to pitch ideas to clients or directors and explain ideas to the internal creative team.
• A clear creative vision while remaining open to others ideas.
• Experience running workshops and building brand positioning as well as creative activation.
• A collaborative, ambitious leader.

Independent, multi-disciplined agency with a reputation for designing truly innovative and remarkable products, experiences, and services for some of the World’s most well-known brands.  The studio has a strong focus on delivering best in class work which is ambitious, highly creative and meaningful.  They offer a unique and inspiring working environment made up of talented and like-minded people working closely together to achieve the best outcomes.  You’ll have exposure to global clients and work and be well supported with training and development opportunities as well as a strong sense of team collaboration.  Hybrid working offered, with 2-3 days a week in the studio.

We’re looking for an experienced Spatial Designer to play a key role in the creation, design, and development of experiential service solutions across a range of client projects.  You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside clients, architects, and the wider design team to deliver compelling and cohesive experiences that go above and beyond expectations.  You’ll need to have significant experience in space planning, layout design, customer journeys, materiality, and architectural detailing with a strong ability to turn an initial idea into functional and beautiful design solutions.

• Will need previous experience working on retail, hospitality and commercial projects with a portfolio that demonstrates involvement from concept stages through to delivery.
• Has the capability to produce top quality visualisations.
• Is confident using 3D technical design software including SketchUp/VRay, Cinema 4D and VectorWorks.
• Also has impressive sketching ability to communicate ideas visually.
• Is comfortable working directly with clients, architects, and contractors to bring a project together.
• Has impeccable attention to detail.

Independent brand and communications agency seeks a senior designer to join their team. This agency are going through an exciting period of growth and seeking to bolster their creative team. You would be joining an agile, fast -moving studio working with a broad mix of clients. This studio offers hybrid working.

We are looking for an established senior designer. Reporting into the Design Lead you will set, exemplify, and push for the highest creative standards. The role demands energy and tenacity in creative problem solving, keeping the pace, and inspiring those around you. As an experienced creative and a strong communicator, you will naturally lead projects and own relationships for the studio.

The role will require a real eye for opportunity; being able to think about how a design idea can become more, seeing the world through a different lens. You will deliver to the highest standards within a supportive, experienced, and growing team with a diverse family of clients.

• Degree or similarly qualified, technically capable on the tools and with a thorough grasp of art direction, production, design implementation and execution.
• A senior designer with an impressive body of work across varied sectors.
• Experience working in branding creating brands from scratch.
• A digital native, comfortable and confident in continually evolving applications.
• Demonstrate an understanding of brand realisation across a diverse range of brand communications, including print, digital, social media, animation/video, sound design & packaging.
• Be a good communicator who can articulate their ideas and creative concepts to the team and clients.
• Able to think on their feet and have a positive attitude. Always looking for ways to make things better and find solutions, not bring problems.

A well established and reputable brand specialist design studio based close to Borough tube station. They consider themselves problem solvers and always open-minded. Balancing strategy and creativity who ‘think before they draw’. They support clients to build brands that create meaningful relationships with their audiences. The studio boasts a friendly, hard-working and ambitious team. Many of which have worked with them for a large part of their career, advancing professionally over their years.

We are looking for a highly creative and motivated designer. A thirst for knowledge and can-do attitude, coupled with self-motivation and problem solving skills are essential. Ideally a creative 'all-rounder' who can turn their hand to a variety of disciplines including branding, typography, digital and motion graphics.

This a great opportunity for someone wishing to start or progress their creative career. Flexible Working - 2 days in the studio, 3 days WFH

• A strong portfolio/showreel demonstrating your suitability for this role
• Excellent knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• After Effects and Cinema 4D experience a bonus
• Excellent time keeping skills
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently
• A desire to learn and take initiative
• Good communication skills
• Enthusiastic, flexible & adaptable
• A team player, keen to learn and open to sharing ideas
• A character who will fit smoothly into the team
• The ideal candidate will have at least 1-2 years professional experience

Brand and communications consultancy seeks a conceptual middleweight designer to join the team. This is a well established boutique and independently owned agency. They have a great reputation for bold and engaging brand design.

This studio works with a diverse mix of clients across sectors but specifically focus on sustainability brand and campaigns and working with business that are looking to make a difference here and empower them with the creative tools to communicate their values and strategies to the right audience.

The middleweight designer will support the senior creatives in developing the highest level of strategically-led creative ideas and in the delivery of creative projects. These projects will be highly varied and range from large branding concepts to detailed brand guidelines, multi channel campaigns and websites.

As a middleweight designer you will actively participate in meetings and critiques to explain and substantiate your ideas. You’ll be practiced in putting forward a point of view not just on your own work but that of the wider team too and highly collaborative day to day always remaining calm and level headed when faced with a tight deadline. The ideal Designer will come with strong original ideas and conceptual thinking, combined with accomplished technical abilities and aesthetic styling.

Educated to BA Level, in Graphic design or equivalent with 4+ yrs commercial experience in brand identity and communications.

Proven experience in branding.

Experience across both print and digital platforms, specifically in the creation of brands and campaigns, from initial concepts to guidelines and implementation.

Passion for design and creativity.

Some exp of moving image and video editing.

Excellent skills in Adobe CS suite.

Leeds or Manchester (Hybrid)

Medium sized design agency, with an impressive FMCG client base is looking for a top senior designer with good packaging experience. This agency offer a hybrid working pattern to combine home and studio, your studio days will be in either Leeds or Manchester, depending which location is closest to home.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an agency with a fabulous culture, who offer great opportunities for career development. They’re a team of specialist designers, print and production professionals, tech gurus, and talismanic project leaders; a flexible fusion formed by leading experts in each field. Founded in 2015, they’re the privately owned, independent agency that envisioned and built the bridge between creative strategic and production agencies. The inventors, architects and pioneers of adaptive design, the innovators in the world of Design to Print, ecommerce and metaverse content and world leaders in pioneering the artwork automation revolution.

Company Benefits 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Your Birthday off! Contributory Pension Scheme, excellent training and development opportunities, early Friday finish!

The role of the Senior Designer is one of the most exciting roles in the creative team. It requires flare, creativity, confidence as well as strong communication and project management skills. As a senior member of the design department, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic, creative and adaptive projects for our clients. This position requires a unique blend of creativity, leadership, and client-facing skills to ensure the successful delivery of visually impactful and disruptive design solution. You’re a good plate spinner and mentor and you understand that the details matter.

Duties will include:

Design Leadership - Lead and inspire those around you, providing mentorship and guidance.
You are accountable for your projects, therefore you’ll display ownership of the overall project design process, ensuring high levels of creativity that align with the client objectives.

Creative Ideation - Drive the creative ideation process, generating original and impactful packaging designs that resonate with target audiences. Stay abreast of industry trends, ensuring designs are cutting-edge and in line with market expectations.

Passion for Design - Exhibit a genuine passion for design, staying motivated and enthusiastic about pushing creative boundaries. Demonstrate a keen understanding of the impact design has on consumer perception and purchasing behaviour.

Accountability
Take full accountability for project timelines, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality. Proactively identify and address potential challenges, demonstrating a solution-oriented mindset.

Presentation Skills - Demonstrate confidence and articulate design concepts effectively in client presentations. Clearly communicate the rationale behind design decisions and how they align with clients’ goals. Believe in what you are presenting with confidence and passion.

Client Interaction - You’ll be client facing when presenting projects, cultivating strong relationships through effective communication and a personable demeanour. Collaborate with clients and our Client Delight team to understand their brand, vision and design requirements.

• Have 5+ years agency experience
• Have experience managing/mentoring junior designers
• Have experience presenting and pitching to clients
• Enjoy working with innovative FMCG brands

Well-loved lifestyle brand with a purposeful mission and playful approach.  The Studio is well put together and focused on delivering all communications for the brand and the next phase of its visual identity as it goes from strength to strength.  A strong team spirit and emphasis on nurturing talent, they offer a broad range of initiatives to inspire, shape and grow their team.  They have a hybrid working set up and are together in the studio 2-3 days per week.

We’re looking for an established senior designer to play an important role as part of the in-house team.   Our ideal candidate would have a strong mix of conceptual and executional skills to collaborate on and deliver key brand communications throughout the year.  You’ll have the opportunity to manage campaigns with multiple touchpoints including marketing, PR, packaging, POS, social and digital, ensuring the brand always looks premium, engaging and sharp.  Design will be your main focus, but this person will also have the chance to contribute art direction to smaller scale photoshoots and for other types of content.  This is an ideal role for someone looking to take on more responsibility as you’ll be managing workflow and other, less senior members of the team in time.

• Has a strong interest in fashion and craft as well as an original and playful approach to design.
• Has significant experience in design and image-making for both digital/e-com and print experiences.
• Is highly creative but with acute attention to detail in their day-to-day work.  Someone who enjoys the core Business As Usual projects as much as the bigger and more conceptual pieces.
• Has some experience of art directing smaller sized projects.
• Is organised, collaborative and always pushing creative boundaries.

Leading brand and communications agency independent in status and spirt are looking for a talented senior designer to compliment the current team. As a senior designer you will play a key role in major projects and act as a mentor to support junior members of the team. You’ll offer an understanding of the strategic direction for key projects and clients and will bring an infectious passion and enthusiasm for the design industry as a whole, keeping up to date with the latest trends and innovations. You’ll work across projects ranging from branding, campaigns, digital and internal comms.

This is an opportunity to work with a committed team and nicely ambitious agency creating thought provoking and beautifully crafted work for an exciting mix of sectors from energy, healthcare and finance through to property. This person will be key to the agency’s growth and continued success and will have the opportunity to be an influencer both internally and externally.  As such, the role would really suit someone who has been confidently working at senior level already for a brand focused agency.

• Solid experience working for a creative agency with expertise in branding, campaigns, internal comms and digital.
• A deep passion for design and creativity as a whole and a drive to create work that exceeds expectations.
• Experience building client relationships, generating ideas and selling them into clients and colleagues.
• Experience mentoring and developing the careers of junior team members, championing and supporting their experiences.
• Experience thinking strategically. Drafting creative sections of proposals, presentations, pitch work for discussion with senior team members.
• Experience leading projects conceptually from start through to finish. Delegating tasks effectively and working with external suppliers and processes.
• Excellent communication skills. Confidence and ease presenting creative ideas both internally and externally.
• A deep passion for design and a strong belief that design matters.

A well-established, well known boutique creative branding and design agency in SW London are looking for a talented Senior Designer! This agency specialise in working with some of the top, high end property clients around and as such their creative output is second to none.

You will be working with a larger team consisting of midweights & senior designers, a design director and a creative director, writers and strategists and PM’s.

You will work closely with account managers and the senior creatives to interpret client briefs and come up with fresh and exciting designs working across branding, corporate literature, high-end brochures, books and some digital.

Ideally you will have at least a 8 years experience working with a design studio/department and have a portfolio, which presents a clean style/aesthetic, which will suit this agency’s client base. This role is a hands-on design role so excellent mac skills are a must, experience working in Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator are paramount.  This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and passionate Designer to work for a well-known, reputable agency who can offer career progression and a platform into the world of cutting-edge branding design.

Leading and highly regarded international agency with a reputation for producing strategic and beautifully crafted brand identities for an impressive client list.  The team is made up of some of the finest talent in design, all driven by creative artistry and strategic thinking to produce highly successful client work that is both imaginative and meaningful.

This is a lead role in the business and, as such, you will be responsible for sustaining and elevating all visual output across the Studio, shaping the creative vision and direction of projects.  This person should be just as confident leading a team of creatives as they are liaising with clients and building relationships.  Comfortable as a hands-on designer but equally adept and influential in running client meetings, presenting, and explaining creative solutions in an inspirational and impressive way.  We are looking for well-crafted portfolios full of beautiful work and considered concepts for brand identity, editorial, place-making, print and digital disciplines.  Aesthetic is hugely important for this Studio, and they will need to be able to see a strong alignment to their clients so suitable folios will need to have a highly refined and polished look.  There will also be the opportunity for international travel.  You’ll have the opportunity to support and collaborate with a high-performing senior team of creative directors, account directors and strategists to make work that you’re proud of.

• Has a branding background with a wealth of experience creating well thought-out, concept driven work and a portfolio with a refined aesthetic.
• Has significant experience running client meetings and workshops, is credible and influential in creative discussions and presentations.
• Still enjoys the day-to-day delivery of creative projects and is comfortable being hands on when needed as well as directing and overseeing projects.
• Is an enthusiastic team player with a collaborative attitude, always ready to challenge perceptions to create something better.
• Will bring exceptional positive energy and solutions to every project whilst nurturing, encouraging, and developing the ideas of others.

Insight-led creative agency is looking to recruit a mid to senior designer to join their talented and growing team! This is an international team of bright minds passionate about bringing brands to life.

Powered by an integrated creative studio they offer expertise in brand strategy, brand identity, digital, experiential and campaigns.

As a member of the creative team you will be working across the agency’s international portfolio. Big brands in the world of placemaking, residential, workspace and luxury.

First and foremost you will be a highly conceptual designer who loves working closely with clients from beginning brief stages and working in detail to get under the skin of a brand. You’ll be bright and inquisitive with impeccable communication skills. Confident in debating and discussing ideas in fact you will relish this and be a leader in pitching and presenting your creative ideas. We are looking for a designer with at-least five years commercial experience within branding.

You'll be responsible for creating innovative concepts and design solutions, working independently and alongside the Creative Director, and managing design projects from briefing and concept stage to overseeing the final artwork.

• Taking a design lead on pitches and live projects.
• Strong typographic/layout skills and a highly creative approach to both print and online briefs.
• Beautifully crafted design projects that show a sophisticated layout aesthetic, attention to detail and a keen eye for photography.
• Passion for design, brands, consumer trends and creative movements.
• Experience mentoring juniors and working collaboratively with account and design directors.
• The ability to write top-line copy.
• Strong typographic and layout design competence.
• A high degree of creative and conceptual skills.
• Commercial and strategic thinking to achieve objectives.
• Built environment experience and a passion/interest to work in the property space.

Talent-driven, branding agency with offices in London and LA are looking for a brilliant senior designer to join their team. On the road to B-Corp, they’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion. This is a fantastic agency with a healthy & happy work culture, encouraging creativity and development.

• Bring brand strategy to life as brand expression and help create brand identities and assets for our clients under the Creative leadership team of DDs and CDs.
• Brainstorm initial ideas and carry them through to concept development and visualisations—ultimately taking the expression through to a system based on strategy, principles and final implementation
• Assist with pitches, and carve creative brand routes from ideation phase to design development and roll-out
• Be primarily responsible for the visual thrust behind any ideas being presented, but also contribute as much to the strategic thinking and conceptual rationale behind those ideas
• Be the lead creative on a particular project. This requires you to have the basic skills necessary to manage both yourself and the projects of other designers—leading and inspiring juniors and mids, and delivering compelling work from beginning to end
  Have your finger on the pulse of current trends in the world of design / art / fashion / creativity / culture and bring that information and enthusiasm for popular culture into the design studio everyday
• Know when to follow design rules, and when to break them

You will have raw talent, curiosity, and a strong creative instinct—and help us deliver work for our clients that, is bold, conceptual and different. You will be a team player who will be generous with ideas and have strong beliefs—loosely held.

You will be the driving force behind creative output, and work in our design team to develop the creative vision of a project. The majority of the creative heavy lifting takes place by you, and it's essential you’re not afraid to get stuck in on all levels of work. Egos get left at the door.

You will need to be comfortable working in various design and illustration aesthetics and have a cohesive understanding of how their frames will translate into animated pieces and design projects. Animation skills are also beneficial but not essential.

Required:

• 6+ years hands-on experience as a Brand Designer
• 100% credible in our core discipline of graphic design
• Completely at home working in Figma
• Deep skills in Adobe Creative Suite: Ps, Ai (ideally Ae too)
• Efficient, detail-oriented, organized, and able to work under tight deadlines
• Team player that’ll fit into our design-driven, collaborative team
• Extremely comfortable designing and building decks in Pitch
• Able to get under the skin of client’s issues
• Able to build personal relationships and trust with clients
• Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work
• Strong creative instincts and willingness to push further through experimentation
• Additional tools are a big plus: motion, code, illustration, etc