Job description

We’re a leading agency in Port Elizabeth looking to hire a talented conceptual graphic designer to join the team as soon as possible. We’re looking for a candidate who is able to create visual concepts, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. You need to be able to combine conceptual and creative excellence with experience in design.

When submitting your CV include the following:

• CV
• Portfolio
• Link to an online portfolio showcasing your work

Job Requirements:

• Relevant degree/qualification min. three to five+ years’ experience essential 
• Previous agency experience
• Fully Mac literate in all relevant programs: Adobe: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.
• Must have strong conceptual skills
• Raw design talent must be evident
• Strong on running and meeting tight deadlines
• You must really, really have a good given design talent
• Able to do design, conceptualisation, etc.
• FMCG background an added advantage

Company Description

Creativity. It’s not just a word, it’s an ethos, it fuels the energy that drives us as an advertising agency in order to deliver dynamic solutions for our clients.

It’s a collaboration of our strong multi-disciplinary teams that through collective creativity sees the possibilities that others don’t.

At Boomtown, we delve into what drives the modern consumer and move beyond tired, conventional marketing strategies to find innovative, creative, and ultimately effective ways to bring brands to life.

To believe in the ability to see what could be rather than what is, and the knowledge that in each and every one of us, and in each and every project we undertake for our clients, is the ability to achieve what others only dream of,
the realisation of possibility

Requirements

• To conceptualise and through creative thinking, design and produce outstanding award winning creative work within the scope of the brand and creative brief give.
• South African and diverse perspective on design and creative.
• In touch with local consumer markets and how they operate.
• Working closely with the creative director and as directed by the creative brief.
• A keen attention to detail.
• Exceptional drawing a necessity for art directors and nice to have for designers.
• Exceptionally fast conceptual skills.
• Capable of driving copy and guiding the response mechanisms.
• Thorough understanding of promotional activities and experiential marketing disciplines.
• A portfolio that demonstrates these skills beyond a shadow of doubt and the results of the activities to prove it.
• Finely honed design skills and latest techniques – graphic designer.
• Capability to take on campaigns with multi-element tasks which require a concept and a thought through process, briefing the copywriters with specific objectives and tasks at hand.
• The applicant will be working closely with a team of client service personnel and creative director.
• Ability to consider many design aspects before finally creating a visual that we like to look at again and again
• Ability to think through and plan a design
• Ability to explore all the possibilities to give the design a unique and innovative look.
• Ability to foresee the voice and style of a product or brand to bring it to life
• Ability to determine the ideas from the audience perspective.
• Ability to see if idea addresses the communication objectives. Ability to Find out and determine if the idea will be suitable for multiple media channels.
• Ability to create flexible designs for further expansion when needed.

Posted on 29 Apr 13:26