Graphic Designer

Job purpose

• Listen to clients and understand their needs before making design decisions, works on a variety of products and activities, such as websites, advertising, books, magazines, posters, computer games, product packaging, exhibitions and displays, corporate communications and corporate identity, i.e. giving organisations a visual 'brand'.
• Work to a brief agreed with the client, creative director or account manager and develop creative ideas and concepts; appropriate media and style has to be chosen to meet the client's objectives.
• The work demands creative flair, up-to-date knowledge of industry software and a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines.

Duties and responsibilities

• Embrace and encourage the ethos and standards of excellence as defined in the SMART Core Values.
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts and developing interactive designs for many products and activities such as: websites, packaging, books and magazines, corporate identities, advertising, exhibitions and displays and computer games.
• Finding out about the project requirements (taking a 'brief').
• Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time.
• Coming up with design concepts that fit the client's needs.
• Working with a range of media, including illustrators and Photoshop; keeping up to date with emerging technologies.
• Presenting options for design treatments.
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches and working on layouts ready for print.
• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients or account managers.
• Amending designs according to the clients' final comments.
• Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work.
• Working as part of a team with printers, copywriters, photographers, stylists, illustrators, other designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists.
• Perform other duties as requested by direct & dotted reporting line managers / supervisors.