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About Us
George P. Johnson (GPJ) is the World’s Leading Event And Experiential Marketing Agency. For over a century we’ve been partnering with the world’s top brands to deliver creative solutions that make a real difference.
Our strategic thinking and creativity breathe life into brands. Our ideas create impact, inspire audiences and grow business. It’s what turns our goals, and those of our clients, into results.
We’re happy working wherever the brief takes us. At home or abroad. On the huge, or the hugely important. Our scalability enables us to answer briefs of all shapes and sizes - effectively and efficiently.
About the Role
GPJ is looking for a 2D Designer to join our growing team. With 5 Years + under your belt, you will have a great eye for design within the experiential and events industry.
Our projects require a wide variety of design disciplines including design for print and large format, concept creation, digital and social media and video and animation. You will have the ability and passion to extend into these disciplines working with suppliers in an art directing capacity.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with the Art Director & the Studio Director to support the wider team, delivering projects
- Be able to explain design concepts to non-designers and sell in ideas & challenge/interrogate briefs
- Manages own tasks and responsibilities when part of project teams or working autonomously
- Taking creative and design from concept through final visuals, bringing the ideas to life
- Have a clear understanding of working with and implementing client guidelines and how these execute within space
- Problem solve by working with the wider team to offer creative solutions
- Have an awareness of company vision and design identity and drive design consistency across all of our brands
- Delivers to the highest standard across all design and creative projects
- Prioritise, schedule and manage workload across multiple projects to ensure design and creative projects are delivered on time
- Strong effective communicator with good face-to-face interaction skills
- Must be able to clearly communicate and manages expectations of more senior members of the team
- Helps foster a culture of ideas, experimentation and collaboration
- Builds strong relationships with other departments in the business
- Actively participates and contributes constructively in meetings
- Develops an understanding and relationship with other disciplines/stakeholders involved in projects across GPJ
About you
- Minimum 5 Years + agency experience or within a similar design/experiential environment
- Previous experience in an agency or within a similar design/experiential environment is essential
- Proven track record in creating great design work from concept to production
- Working knowledge of online and offline design, brand development and the creative process
- Working knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography & limitations of online and offline design work
- Working Knowledge & proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite, and in MS Office & Apple programs
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Loads of enthusiasm and a positive attitude
- Being a craftsman, understanding the beauty in good design
- Conceptual thinker who can lead creative development with visual problem solving
- Solution focused and proactive problem solver
- Ability to work in a demanding and changing environment
- An appreciation for great design in general and the relationship between textual and visual elements
- An excellent attention to detail, whilst being aware of the bigger picture
- Calm, considered and able to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to work independently or part of a wider team
- Ability to take feedback and work in a collaborative and helpful way within GPJ
- Fluent in Adobe CC
- A capability of telling and designing brand stories and experiences
