YBM is a multi-award winning bespoke premium-brand content agency, and we are hiring!
Designer
Location: London Bridge, London
Type: Freelance
Salary: £Competitive
YBM is a multi-award winning bespoke premium-brand content marketing agency, producing outstanding print magazines and online content for some of the world’s leading universities and schools. Please see some of our content here https://magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.aiglon.ch/community/magazine
Person spec
We are looking for a creative, innovative freelance art director to support us across a range of magazine projects.
Our ideal candidate has substantial experience of print magazine layout, commissioning and art direction – and be brimming with ideas for digital content, especially short form video, that can be commissioned in parallel. You will be obsessed with typography, hierarchy and colour; you’ll also be a lateral thinker, keen to experiment and push visual boundaries in the name of best serving the reader. And whether the story is string theory, identity or the big smoke, you’ll be fizzing with intriguing, exciting visual solutions. And of course you’ll be an ace at managing budgets.
Our agency is founded on the belief that effective communication comes from the marriage of words and pictures, and consequently writers, editors and designers work very closely together. You will have excellent people-management skills: you’ll know how to get the best work from leading photographers and illustrators and how to work with writers and editors. You’ll have a wealth of contributor contacts. And you’ll be as comfortable working in small, highly-collaborative teams as you are working alone – this is a role that combines the best of freelancing (the independence, the direct contact with clients) with the best of agency life (the support, the camaraderie, the bad jokes).
We work in ‘extreme collaboration’ with clients. We spend a lot of time listening before we do anything, thereby mostly avoiding the creative clash that can be so disheartening. So you’ll also be comfortable talking to clients, presenting work and really good at making the imaginative leap to put yourself in the shoes of your audience.
The position
• Working in a small and vibrant team, you will work closely with clients and editors to take projects from first ideas to print
• Candidates should be able to show a portfolio that demonstrates outstanding editorial design ability, an eye for typography, colour, the exciting and the quirky
• You will be proactive and keen for success, with an infectious enthusiasm for design and the desire to be brilliant
• Create and iterate on assets that express a brand and inject beauty and life into all products
• Push creativity, challenge established thinking, and discover new ways of approaching a problem to arrive at elegant solutions
What we offer
• Freelance role
• Small collaborative team
• Lots of responsibility
• Interesting and exciting work
• Growing agency
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- Hello Stephen,Would be happy tp help! Some relevant project is https://www.behance.net/gallery/26576429/UQ-Unknown-Quantities-Journal-The-Abject and please email me on 4nn414@gmail.com to discuss further.
- Hello Stephen,This sounds like a great and exciting role.Please find my portfolio here: https://kanedavis.co.uk/ and my email is hello@kanedavis.co.ukWould love to know more about the role so please get in touch.Many thanks
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