Senior Visual Designer
Smart Design, San Francisco
Smart Design is looking for a Senior Visual Designer to join our team.
We seek a top-notch graphic designer, well versed in designing for screen, package, print, and beyond. He or she has an innate ability to bring brand experiences to life, regardless of the medium. Smart Design offers a diverse range of design challenges from holistic packaging systems to strategic design languages to screens on digital devices. Working with multi-disciplinary teams, we push design past traditional boundaries.
Senior Visual Designer serves as a project lead and is accountable to the Director, Brand Communications. He or she is responsible for delivering the best possible design solution within project scope and budget. A Senior Visual Designer promotes high quality work and project profitability, and works closely with the Directors to mentor staff and strengthen the practice’s capabilities.
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AIGA Seattle has announced plans for its regional design event, Into the Woods, October 15–17 at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort in Leavenworth, WA. The speaker roster is still being finalized, but confirmed presenters include Gail Anderson of SpotCo and Steve Frykholm of Herman Miller. We’re most intrigued by a series of hands-on workshops—like FOH Terry Marks helping creatives turn around-the-house objects into birdhouses, and HOW author David Sherwin exploring how the physicality of acting can help generate new ideas. And the location, the Sleeping Lady Resort, looks smashing. If only we had a travel budget this year …
Entry deadline: September 15
Enter your work in the HOW International Design Awards. All winners will see their work in HOW’s April 2011 International Design Annual and get a $100 discount to the 2011 HOW Design Conference. One Best of Show winner will get a FREE TRIP to the 2011 HOW Design Conference (roundtrip airfare, hotel and conference registration) and an award to be presented at the conference.
Judges
Michael Osborne www.modsf.com
Clint! Runge www.archrival.com
Mary Zalla www.landor.com
Check out this month’s Top 10:
http://www.5seven.com
5Seven
Clever copywriting mixed with solid design make this one-man shop’s portfolio stand out.
http://andreagillstudio.com
Andrea Gill Studio
Andrea Gill is a designer/ fine artist specializing in branding, art direction, screen printing and water-based media.
http://www.gotbadvibes.com/
Dr. Badvibes House of Oddities
Eric Stine is an Indianapolis-based illustrator who creates fun, awkward things.
http://www.goodwebfonts.com
Good Web Fonts
Design instructor Laura Franz created this simple site to help her students find lively, subtle, perfectly legible fonts for the web.
http://www.kapow.com
kapow
This web design, development and consulting firm specializes in non-profit and arts clients.
http://thisisprocess.com
Process
Process is a group of creative individuals who collectively blog with a focus on the creative process of artists working in a variety of disciplines.
http://www.consultseachange.com
SeaChange
SeaChange is a media relations and strategic communications firm based in Charleston, SC. Their site, designed and developed by Fuzzco, references newsprint-inspired details with textured elements, custom illustrations and headline typography to deliver an editorial feel.
http://blog.dragonrouge-usa.com/
The Red Thread
The Red Thread is a blog community created by branding agency Dragon Rouge to exchange ideas and share view points on truly clear brands.
http://www.thisisourblog.com
this is our blog
Uncensored, behind the scenes look at daily life in a design firm – as told by the intern!
http://www.uberkraaft.co.uk/
uberkraaft
British illustrator Matt Williams describes himself as “an illustrator, doodler, designer and all round creative available for hire.”
Senior Graphic Designer
Gap Inc., San Francisco
As a member of the Creative Solutions team, the Senior Designer will have primary responsibility for managing, developing, creating and producing corporate creative materials. This position supports the External Communication team’s financial and business communications and traffic-driving initiatives as well as the creative and design needs for employee communications and engagement programs. In this role, this individual is responsible for the appropriate implementation of the Gap Inc. brand identity within all projects as well as managing creative processes and efficiencies. This position will report to the Gap Inc. Creative Director, collaborate with Art Directors within the Design team, and work closely with the Global Communications & Public Affairs leadership team.
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At first glance, this set of pencils imprinted with graphic design tricks-of-the-trade seems like a cute gift for a designer. But this product (which really is for sale for $5) is actually a part of recent MFA grad Heather K. Phillips‘ thesis project which took on the notion of the design critique and questioned its value.
In my work, I co-opt the vocabulary of critique, cloaked in niceties and reinforced by repetition, to demonstrate its limitations. Using a hyperbolic approach, I identify and mirror the language back to expose the veneer of objectivity and test the limits of subjectivity. I replay feedback in exaggerated form, to challenge the perception that critique is an infallible process.
Cathe Holden, a designer and crafter based in Petaluma, CA, put together a charming page of vintage The’s and ampersands that you can download for free to use in your work.
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is launching several interesting new academic programs, including M.F.A. in Community Arts (2010); M.P.S. in The Business of Art & Design (May 2011); M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice (fall 2011); M.F.A. in Illustration Practice (fall 2011); M.A. in Social Design (in development, fall 2011); and B.F.A. in Humanistic Studies/Studio Discipline integrated double major (fall 2011). Through these degrees, the College is developing new curricular models to support its increased scope of programs, especially in the areas of civic engagement, research, professional studies, design and liberal arts. Read more detailed descriptions of the new programs.
Senior Graphic Designer
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County seeks a Senior Graphic Designer to work with our Creative Service department. The senior designer will take a leading role in setting standards for design that align with the Museum’s brand strategy principles and mission, and also support the communication needs of the Natural History Family of Museums, which includes the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits and the Hart Museum in Newhall. This position will provide a high level of creative and strategic thinking through designing and art directing print collateral, environmental graphics and web-based graphics. The Senior Graphic Designer reports to the Director of Creative Services and works closely with the Museum’s Marketing & Communications Department.
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We’re excited that the TED (Technology, Entertainment Design) Conference franchise is coming to HOW’s hometown of Cincinnati: TEDxCincy on October 7. Registration is now open (just $55 for the full day), and the organizers, including design leaders from LPK and Procter & Gamble, are currently assembling the lineup of speakers. If you’re in or near Southwest Ohio, you’ll want to be in town for this event. HOW is glad to sponsor the event, and we’ll be there sharing complimentary copies of HOW for TEDxCincy attendees.
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