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Senior Graphic Designer/Illustrator

Remuneration:negotiable depending on experience 
Location:Durban
Education level:Diploma
Job level:Senior
Type:Permanent
Reference:#GCM310119CD
Company:Gorilla Creative Media


Job description

Reporting to the Executive Creative Director, leading the design discipline within a team, you will be expected to originate creative concepts, craft and translate ideas into viable design concepts, develop design assets for pitches and determine a project’s design direction. Present well-illustrated stories and ideas in a visual storyboard format.

Managing a team of designers to delivery, you will be responsible for the following:
  • Monitor work flowing through the studio, understanding different projects and their purpose and manage outputs according to a project plan with client services
  • Encourage Creativity within the broader team developing a point of view and creative opinion
  • Working to a brief, generate ideas and produce quality outputs
  • Keep meticulous records of time spent on jobs for reporting and billing purposes
  • Assist wherever possible, be prepared to do many different tasks daily and rollout other designers concepts according to an art direction and or strict guidelines
  • Be up to date and proficient in each accounts CI requiring design output and the skill to complete each task
  • Help with proactive ideas and brainstorms ensuring the creative ideas are at their strongest and executed to their full potential for pitches/client meetings
  • Translate the concepts and ideas of others into viable design executions
  • Develop design assets for pitches and assist in determining a project’s design direction
  • Take creative concepts and artwork developed and design variations, additional creative assets, revisions, print-ready files, web-ready, etc.
  • Assist other designers in whatever way necessary with the completion of their briefs


Requirements

  • At least five years' design experience in an agency environment
  • Design related degree/diploma
  • Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Strong conceptual and visual storyboarding of TV and online video
  • The ability to work independently
  • Deadline and task driven
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Team player


Company Description

We are a proudly South African, award-winning digital creative agency with offices in Durban and Johannesburg. We are driven by The Relentless Pursuit of Awesome.

Posted on 10 Apr 11:02, Closing date 9 Jun

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