The Brand (in-house role)
Black+Blum design unique lifestyle and homewares products to help people live more sustainably. Our range includes high-quality lunch boxes, water bottles, and thermoses; for the home, the office, and the trail. Proud 1% for the Planet members, everything is built to last using premium materials, and every detail is considered for lifelong and everyday use and reuse. We are small passionate team of friendly, eco-conscious foodies, based in the vibrant streets between Southwark and Borough.

The Opportunity
This role is for an in-house Junior Graphic Designer to join our Senior Graphic Designer and Marketing Manager. As a small business, the roles and responsibilities of our new JGD will be very broad and diverse, ranging from digital to print, photo/video editing and administrational. You need to be ready and willing to dive in head first, there is no task too big or small. We’re at a very exciting stage of growth for the brand, so this is your opportunity to get involved and help us shape it.

Key responsibilities:
– Take initial design direction and develop these, with the support of the Senior Graphic Designer and Marketing Manager, across a large array of design collateral in both traditional media, digital and video.
– Follow instructions and implement changes accordingly
– Creating layouts to existing design and brand standards
– Meet and/or communicate with team members to discuss requirements of job
– Assist in the brainstorming to produce new ideas and concepts and support the development of designs for print and digital media
– Adhere to consistent industry standard design and production processes, while also identifying opportunities for improvement

Types of output:
The role could include anything required from a graphic design perspective, including but not limited to:
– Photo (necessary) + Video (added bonus) Editing
– Sales brochures and presentations
– Packaging and Co Brand Visuals
– Digital Assets including website, email
– Social Media content including images, video content
– Print assets including banners, flyers, inserts

Who you are:
– Passionate about all things sustainability and the environment
– Creative: we want to hear your ideas and would love to get you involved
– Have a good understanding of layout principles, colour, and how to set up files for print and digital output
– Able to take direction and happy to receive feedback
– Able to manage multiple projects at the same time – able to prioritise and manage your own time
– It is incredibly important that you are an organised person, this role will require a fair amount of administrational work
– Energetic and enthusiastic to get stuck into all areas of the business (including team outings and office banter)

Who you are (technically)
– Degree or equivalent in graphic design
– Previous working experience (i.e. internship or placement)
– Good working knowledge of Photoshop, inDesign, Illustrator, Premier Pro (bonus)
– Interested in social media
– (Bonus) Good experience with print, colour retouching and digital artwork production

The role is fulltime, based in our office in Southwark 3 days a week, with option to work 2 days from home.

Applicants should email their Cover Letter, CV and portfolio to mina@black-blum.com

Interview Process:
1. Initial Interview with Senior Graphic Design & Marketing Manager (Video)
2. If successful, you will be required to do a task (In Person)
3. If successful, you will meet the Managing Director & Founder of Black+Blum (In Person)

We are Represent, a London-based recruitment agency working with the world’s best graphic designers, art directors, motionand digital designers, copywriters, strategists, account managers, project managers, producers and more.

We are searching for a Junior Project Manager and Project Assistant. This role will be an integral part of the team and reporting primarluly to the Project Manager and Project Director.
The role will involve: – Coordinating meetings, booking online meetings and diary entries into
studio calendar
– Creating schedules, liaising with 3rd party suppliers
– Maintaining studio supplies such as refreshments, stationery and any
other project needs
– Answering phones, managing post, ordering couriers and taxis for staff
and clients
– Preparing/ ordering of refreshments for meetings and lunches
– Maintaining studio archive and filing of projects
– Ensuring the studio is presentable to clients
– Assisting with project research, project management and project plan-
ning
– Monitoring project expenses and updating Finance manager
– Coordinating travel bookings for the directors and wider team
– Monitoring project deadlines and team workload.

This role is a hands-on role and studio based. You will need to have the abilityto work reasonably fast pace without compromising quality of output or deadlines and budgets. Be able to and enjoy working within a team environment. Be a confident communicator and have excellent organisation skills. An interest in design, creativity, craft brands, luxury brands, interiors and architecture would be an advantage.

If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, we would love to hear from you. Please send your CV and Portfolio to carly@represent.team and be assured we will respond to each applicant.

Location: London

At Nord Anglia Education we’re looking for a Video Editor to join our MAC (Marketing, Communications and Admissions) team. This entry-level role is part of our Group Central Support based in our London headquarters, the Video Editor will work with our Senior Brand Manager.

As NAE’s Video Editor you’ll be passionate about using video for storytelling to help bring our brand to life in creative and engaging ways.

You’ll work collaboratively with our central, regional and school teams and will manage material such as broll, dialogue, music, graphics to produce films that showcase the incredible learning experience our schools offer to all of our students across the world.

You’ll always find creative ways to bring our brand to life in motion graphics across our existing range of videos. And you’ll also understand that creativity is key to deliver commercial objectives, that’s why you’ll develop videos, focused on our brand positioning, to tackle different business objectives through campaigns (e.g. explaining our offering or our curricula) and social organic posts in a creative and compelling way.

You’ll be passionate about showcasing the NAE brand in every possible touchpoint, including our newly launched websites. You’ll develop snippet videos from our extensive library of broll for our schools and find new opportunities to showcase the NAE brand on video on our websites.

As an expert, here’s what we expect:

• Experience in similar roles.
• You are a skilled storyteller, and you know how to work with existing video material to select the best footage to tell a compelling story.
• You have extensive knowledge of After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut and developing motion graphics.
• You have experience managing the full creative process, from brief to delivery.
• You have a creative mind and excellent attention to detail.
• You are passionate about creative and design and will find creative ways to bring our brand to life.
• You are a passionate brand guardian, and you make sure all creative outputs are on brand and delivered to the highest standard.
• You can work in a fast-paced environment and deliver projects in a minimal amount of time.​​​​​​​

About us

We’re Nord Anglia Education, the world’s largest premium international school’s organisation. With 81 international schools in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, our teachers help 75,000+ students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary education achieve more than they ever imagined possible.

When you join Nord Anglia’s Marketing Admissions and Communications team, you’ll become part of a global family of talented and creative experts working for a fast-growing premium international brand.

To apply

If you’re applying online, please do so directly through the Nord Anglia Education careers page and make sure to include your CV.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Because of a high level of applications, please note that we’ll only contact shortlisted candidates.

We’re a multidisciplinary team – experts in strategy, design, digital, motion and editorial, united and inspired by a love of sport and the power of storytelling.

Based in Shoreditch, we’re more than a business – we’re a tight-knit group who love what we do, and we are looking for a new player to join our team.

Department

Primarily working between the Publications design team and a client-specific delivery team, with occasional collaboration with the editorial department and wider studio.

About the role

We are looking for a talented and meticulous publications designer, someone who lives and breathes typesetting and editorial design to join our wider team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about all aspects of print, publishing, and design in general, bringing a keen eye for detail and layout skills to a range of editorial projects.

Working on delivering a range of publications across multiple brands for a key sports client, you’ll be confident in taking multiple projects from layout conception and development, through meticulous art-working to print/publishing. You will be comfortable working to deadlines, within various brand guidelines and dealing directly with clients and printers as part of a team delivering high quality publications across some of sports biggest brands and events.

With a minimum of 3+ years industry experience, we are looking for someone who is ready to take their next big challenge head-on.

Skills and experience

• 3+ years’ design agency experience
• Fully capable in Creative Suite, particularly InDesign.
• A keen eye for typography, a love of typesetting and editorial design
• Meticulous attention to detail, thorough file set-up to art-working skills and impeccable housekeeping are all a must.
• Understanding of grids, style sheets and the preparation for print process
• Ability to work to brand guidelines and a high level of craft
• Commercial awareness and confidence in working to tight deadlines and directly with clients
• Interest and experience in digital publishing is beneficial
• This role is almost exclusively for clients within the sports industry. A basic knowledge of this sector is useful, and an active interest is of definite advantage.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• An open and sociable personality is also essential. We are looking for a team player!

If this role sounds like it’s for you, please send your CV, covering letter and a portfolio link

We’re on the lookout for a Senior Designer to join our growing team!

As a Senior Designer at Whippet, you’ll have bags of creative freedom and get to work with the top retail clients in the UK, lead on projects, campaigns, POS, branding, print, digital and more!

Ideally, you’ll be a great design all-rounder: with strong conceptual and project experience, great type and layout skills, not to mention impressive juggling skills, too.

Who are we?

Whippet is an award-winning creative agency transforming brands. We’ve been around for over 20 years, which means we know how to deliver results that count. We get brands, we get design, we get communications, and between our amazing team of 30 people comprising of Creative, Strategy and Client Services, we deliver powerful marketing designs.

We work predominantly in retail, so it’s fast, but we love the variety and the pace! You’ll be working with some pretty amazing brands, alongside some pretty amazing people, so if you’re creative, passionate, motivated, and collaborative, you’ll fit right in.

What to expect?

Day-to-day as a Senior Designer at Whippet you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Take client briefs and translate them into high-impact design concepts
• Take the lead role on projects/clients with heaps of creative freedom
• Generate concepts and big ideas for retail campaigns
• Work closely with Design Directors to produce creative concepts for new brand identities, seasonal campaigns, print, digital, in-store POS and much more
• Present to some of the biggest retail clients in the UK, including M&S Food, M&S Bank, Holland & Barrett, Bensons for Beds, Frankie & – Benny’s, Iceland, Tesco Mobile and many more
• Work closely and collaboratively with our Client Services, Copywriting, and creative teams throughout projects
• Champion conceptual thinking and creative for our mid-weight and junior designers.

What’s on offer?

Our team are our biggest asset, without a doubt. From managing the flow of projects through the studio, motivating and celebrating achievements, to producing outstanding creative work – we have developed a truly special culture, which is dedicated, collaborative, friendly and fun!

We offer a hybrid working model with 2 days remote and 3 in the Whippet studio. Our studio in London Bridge is a place where we come together as a team and make creative magic.

There’s more too…

• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance with Vitality
• Company pension plan with Royal London
• Enhanced annual leave for length of service
• Early Friday finishes for all and flexible start times
• A paid day off and contribution toward doing something that satisfies your curiosity
• Regular team outings, plus a big summer and Christmas party!
• Perkbox
• Cyclescheme
• All the up-to-date tech you’ll need
• Inspiring guest speakers

Like the sound of the role? Let’s chat…

If you’ve got a portfolio full of strong ideas executed to the highest standard, a passion for branding and all things beautiful, and obsessive attention to detail, then get in touch.

Send us your CV and portfolio with a cover letter including your salary expectations

About us
We are Shoot The Moon. We help brands find meaningful ways to connect with their people.

We are a global brand studio headquartered in North London. Having grown rapidly in recent years, we are looking for entrepreneurial minds to join our diverse team of designers, planners and account handlers. At Shoot The Moon we recognise that collaboration underpins all successful creative solutions. We bring together great people from diverse communities, backgrounds and experience to create the best possible outcome for the brief.

With a noteworthy client roster across luxury and hospitality to retail and sport, this role demands someone with an understanding of how to get under-the-skin of a brief and an obsession for design craft.

We are energetic and fearless, and we are growing fast. If you would like to be part of our journey, we would love to hear from you.

The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Art Director to lead the creative direction of our design team. The Art Director will be responsible for guiding and supervising the visual elements of all design projects, ensuring that they meet our high standards of creativity, originality, and quality.

Must be comfortable working in a busy, fast-moving environment – with the ability to work on multiple projects at once.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative direction of design projects and manage the design team.
• Develop and oversee the execution of design concepts, visuals, and creative solutions that meet project objectives.
• Collaborate with clients, account managers, and project managers to understand project requirements and objectives.
• Can clearly articulate directions to internal teams and inspiring clients.
• Review and approve designs, artwork, photography, and graphics developed by the design team.
• Excellent eye for detail, consistency, and accuracy.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and handle multiple projects.
• Ensure that design work is completed on time, on budget, and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Present design work to clients, both in-person and remotely, and explain design decisions and creative solutions.
• Stay up to date on design trends, tools, and technologies to keep our agency at the forefront of the industry.
• Oversee freelancers, hire, manage and develop creative team
• Ability to nurture & mentor both senior and junior members of the team.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in an Art Director role, ideally in an agency setting
• Strong creative vision and conceptual thinking
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Proficiency in design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design and art direction skills along with rationale and evidence of the process behind them
• Experience in managing design projects from concept to completion
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines

If you are a highly creative and experienced Art Director with a passion for design, we encourage you to apply by sending in your CV and portfolio at jobs@shootthemoon.co.uk

The Senior Creative [EXPERIENTIAL] is the link between world class creative work and the entire agency team. Working alongside Account Service and Production leads, your laser focus is producing exceptionally polished, considered and detail-oriented creative design for live experiential projects, from ideation and concept through to delivery and execution.

If aspects of both experiential creative direction and experiential design light you up, then this position as Senior Creative of all things Experiential might just be calling your name.

You might be thinking ‘but what will I actually be doing?’ We’re so glad you asked. Simply put, this role is focused on ideating, conceiving, producing and delivering the creative for all of our live experiential live work in the UK. Brand activations, launches, special events, pop-ups, festivals, dinners, shows – you name it – any IRL live experiences that we’re working on for client projects, campaigns and launches – your aesthetic, style, vision and creative talent will play an integral part in developing that experience and bringing it to life.

What you bring to the table visually and creatively shapes the look, feel, image and outcomes for New Moon’s experiential live work in London. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for the execution of multiple pieces of world class, award-winning, globally celebrated work annually. (We make it sound so simple, but we know it’s not!) Here’s what it takes to make that happen.

Your specific responsibilities in landing the work;

• Participation in new business briefings; interpreting the creative requirements within a brief or RFP and actively contributing to brainstorming and strategising what, how and who could bring it to life.
• Work in collaboration with the Account Service, Strategy and Production teams to develop pitch decks.
• Lead the ideation process when responding to new client briefs and pitch proposals for the London Office – inclusive of building out a comprehensive deck, planning a clear and compelling guest journey and creating strong visuals to express the theme and design of the event.
• Assist in the development of content capture briefs.

Your role in ideating and conceiving the work;

• Generate ideas and creative treatments that genuinely excite clients and make them expand their perceptions of what New Moon can do to help them achieve their goals, drive tangible results and create cultural legacy-building experiences for their communities and audience.
• Understand our clients’ business objectives and how those objectives relate to their target audience, while staying in tune to business issues and market considerations, particularly as it relates to the cultural arena that we are experts in, to assist in generating relevant creative ideas that truly move the needle in tangible, material ways.
• Bring a strategic approach to the ideation process so that the creative is not only aligned with the client’s immediate needs but also supports their overarching goals and vision, which in turn strengthens their relationship with us as a trusted partner
• Deft at anticipating potential challenges and obstacles that the creative presents and showing foresight in being able to pivot and problem-solve to preempt them

What you are accountable for when doing the work;

• Lead and follow through on the creative process of each project from concept through to execution, inclusive of *but not limited to); attending site visits, delegating effectively to appropriate 2D & 3D design resources, being nimble and responsive to changing client needs, budget considerations, production realities or logistic challenges, overseeing the creative execution onsite at live events.
• Work hand in hand with the Head of Production and Client Services Director to proactively identify resourcing bottlenecks and ensure all jobs have the correct creative resources to ensure seamless delivery of creative to the client.
• Actively develop a network of freelance creatives including art directors, illustrators, 2D designers, 3D renderers, set designers, content editors, photographers, videographers etc.
• Ensure all freelance creatives that are engaged are tracking hours and have confirmed rates to ensure best practice on managing costs tracking and margins on a project.
• Taking ownership and full accountability of all creative aspects of a project from start to finish, including the quality and cadence of deliverables, management of resources, budget management and profit margins.

THE INHERENT QUALITIES WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Radical collaboration; support a culture and environment that is conducive to collaboration, making sure all stakeholders are heard and respected, giving others the opportunity to participate and contribute in ways that inspire them.
• Big leadership energy; knowing the difference between management and leadership, understanding how to lead by example.
• An innovative spirit with willingness to try new approaches and ideas.
• You are genuinely curious about, and committed to, learning, growth and expansion as a person – not just as it relates to your career track.
• You are dialled into culture and have fostered your own interests and knowledge in key areas of the cultural landscape.
• Demonstrating humanity, empathy, compassion and patience with clients, peers, stakeholders and collaborators.
• Getting down to the nitty gritty, here’s the background you’ll need to have;

CRUCIAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS (THAT THERE’S NO WIGGLE ROOM ON)

• 3-5 years + experience working within a Creative Department, with preference to agency work. This could be from being a mid-level creative with plenty of documented runs on the board in experiential projects, as an Experiential Designer or even as an Experiential Associate Creative Director
• 2 + years of experiential events experience, encompassing brand activations, launches, pop-ups, dinners, shows, festivals and special events
• Experience working across the fashion, youth culture and luxury sector with market leading brands and clients.

REQUIRED EXPERTISE AND DOCUMENTED CAPABILITIES (SHOW YOUR WORK!)

• Have two or more of the following pre visualisation skills / creative capabilities: moodboarding, photoshop, sketches (for vendors and clients), mock ups, CAD, rendering, scale plans, styling and prop sourcing.
• Ability to image reference, building clear and descriptive mood boards to articulate creative concepts.
• Access to, and demonstrated knowledge of, an established network of working relationships with 2D designers (graphic) 3D (draftspeople, render talents, industrial designers), rental houses (furniture, smalls and props) and technology, scenic and fabrication partners.

THINGS THAT WOULD GIVE YOU AN EDGE ABOUT (BUT AREN’T DEALBREAKERS)

• Interior design and architectural design background.
• Experience in content, digital, film & TV such as working in set design, content and styling.
• The ability to work across additional design platforms and programs including but not limited to: InDesign, Keynote, Photoshop, Sketch-up and Rhino.
• Experience in identifying, engaging and briefing local content vendors: photographers, cinematographers, editors, stylists, art directors and composers.
• Experience using task management software such as Monday.com and Harvest.
• Understanding of creative strategy development, strategic ideation, influencer culture or content direction.

IMPACT AND GROWTH

• Instead of trying to squeeze into the limited box of being a ‘cultural fit’, you have the opportunity to shape and influence the culture of the agency through your participation and contribution, enhancing and adding to our culture.
• This is a role which not just gives you a seat at the table where you will have real influence and impact. If you have your heart set on being an Experiential CD in the London team of a progressive, independent global agency, throw your hat in the ring.

KEY DETAILS

• Location: London, UK. This role does require face-time with team members, clients and stakeholders and as such is not a fully-remote or at-large position
• Full-time, in-house role
• Hybrid working: 3 days per week in the office (Tues-Thurs), with Mondays and Fridays WFH
• Reports to Client Services Director (UK) and Creative Director (NYC)
• Annual salary of £60k- £65k, commensurate with experience
• New Moon offers a progressive and generous benefits package to support our team members heath, wellbeing and happiness including remote working opportunities, international experiences with our US team and a mental health support program.

ABOUT NEW MOON

We are a values-led company that is grounded in radical humanity. That means we put our people first. At New Moon we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that is genuinely inspiring, compassionate, inclusive, supportive, and visionary.

“In the past, jobs were about muscle, now they are about brains, but in the future they’ll be about heart.”

Further details about who we are, the work we do, the experiences we create, and the clients in our cultural orbit can be found at www.new-moon.com and on our ‘gram.