Midweight Designer - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
01-09-2015 4:00:11 PM
29-09-2015 4:00:11 PM
Midweight Designer
Location: Cape Town
Salary: R15k – R18k per month
Requirements:
- The successful candidate should have a passion for visually appealing, super creative and edgy design.
- Relevant tertiary degree/diploma in Visual Communications, Graphic Design, Web design, Illustration
- A URL of your recent work/portfolio
- Pro-active outgoing in problem solving, conceptualization and meeting deadlines.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Suite:
- Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Able to contribute to the best digital work in the country.
- Ambitious and looking to work your way up to more senior roles.
- Experienced in photo-retouching and image development.
- Super familiar with:
- Colour theory and colour relationships.
- Typographic terms that identify type forms and the specifications required to refer to typographic settings (i.e., points, leading, picas, kerning, tracking, cap-height, x-height etc.).
- Perspective and space relationships.
- Page composition and grid structures.
- Print production process, knowledge of production techniques, and correct disking procedures.
- Photography and the photographic process.
- Willing to bring your positive attitude and other creative interests like story telling, content creation, illustration, writing, photography, animation, motion or sound design.
- Passionate about art, design, music, games, pop culture and socialising.
Advantageous:
- A sketch pad to create storyboards
- HTML
- CSS
- After Effects
- Sound design
Duties:- Conceptualisation and design of graphic applications such as collateral material, corporate identity, web design and development, social media from concept to completion.
- Working with photographers, illustrators, printers and anyone else who is involved in the development of a project.
- Delivery of work to client
- Addition of work to the company’s portfolio
- Updating the company’s internal branding and corporate identity as and when required
- Social media design
- Event collateral
- Proposals and presentations