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Midweight Graphic Designer - Children's Books/Entertainment

  • Location: City of London
  • Salary: £45 - £50 per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 1 day ago

  • Sector: office support
  • Type: hybrid
  • Contact: Dee Watson
  • Contact Email: dee.watson@handle.co.uk
  • Duration: 6 Months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Expiry Date: 02 November 2025
  • Job Ref: BBBH112662

Midweight Graphic Designer with ideally branding background needed for an iconic children's books company. Have you worked in entertainment or for kids brands? You will work with some of the world's best storytellers and creative minds- bringing the stories to life through your creative design solutions. You will be responsible for design / creative across a range of areas including brand partnerships, marketing, publishing, social media and more, using a number of visual approaches. Based in London's West End- 2 days in office 3 remote - 6 months contract. £200 per day. Please upload your cv as well as a link or pdf with your portfolio.

Key duties:

-Brainstorm initial ideas and carry them through to concept development

-Be the lead creative on a particular project. This requires you to have creative, design, project and relationship skills

-Guideline, style guide and art pack development

-Toolkit creation (esp for Marketing, Publishing and Theatre teams)

-Create highly innovative product concepts and mock-ups

-Create high-spec Google Slides presentations across departments sometimes on tight turnaround

Skills:

-Ideally have at least 5 years' experience working as a designer

-Ideally branding experience and entertainment experience/knowledge

-Be an extremely confident and capable designer, a craftsperson, with an eye for detail as well as understanding of the bigger picture

-Someone who elevates and benchmarks a high creative standard for themselves

-Be ready to lead and execute design projects, from concept to delivery

-Be comfortable working within brand guidelines, but have the skillset and confidence to think creatively and expand guidelines where needed

Please apply below or send me your portfolio and cv directly dee.watson@handle.co.uk

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