Graphic Designer
Role
The duties of a Graphic Designer relate to the conceptual design and execution of a client project or campaign component. These duties typically involve:
- Plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to communications problems. Decide the most effective way of getting a message across in print, electronic, and film media using a variety of methods such as color, type, illustration, photography, animation, and various print and layout techniques. Graphic designers should be able to develop the overall layout and production design of magazines, newspapers, journals, corporate reports, and other publications. They should also be able to produce promotional displays, packaging, and marketing brochures for products and services, design distinctive logos for products and businesses, and develop signs for business and government.
- Consider cognitive, cultural, physical, and social factors in planning and executing designs for the target audience. A demonstrated ability to gather relevant information by meeting with clients, the art director, and by performing your own research.
- Prepare sketches or layouts, by hand or with the aid of a computer, to illustrate the vision for the design. Select colors, sound, artwork, photography, animation, style of type, and other visual elements for the design. Designers also select the size and arrangement of the different elements on the page or screen. They also may create graphs and charts from data for use in publications, and often consult with copywriters on any text that may accompany the visual part of the design. Designers then present the completed design to our clients or art director for approval.
- Designers also must be creative and able to communicate their ideas in writing, visually, and verbally. Because consumer tastes can change quickly, designers need to be well-read, open to new ideas and influences, and quick to react to changing trends. Problem-solving skills, paying attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and under pressure also are important traits. Designers need self-discipline to start projects on their own, to budget their time, and to meet deadlines and production schedules.
Qualifications
- A design degree is required for entry-level and advanced graphic design positions. In addition to postsecondary training in graphic design, creativity, and communication and problem-solving skills are crucial.
- Proficiency with the Adobe CS3 software package.
- Experience working in the North or with Northern issues.
- Additional related industry skills and multilingualism would be considered an asset. Equivalencies will be considered as applicable.
To Apply
Please forward resumes via email, with a list of website work experience, attention Bill Kellett at .