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