Graduate / Junior Designer
Job Description
Barlow & Co are excited to be searching for a Graduate / Junior Designer to join the West London studio. We have both a permanent and a 3-6 month contract available at present. You will join a small team responding to clients’ creative briefs with flair and imagination.
Barlow & Co is a small, award-winning design and marketing agency, specialising in packaging, communications and print for the wine & drinks industry. From concept to delivery, we create and develop brands to commercial success. This is a fantastic opportunity if you’re looking to build on your design experience in an exciting and fast paced industry.
ABOUT YOU
• Graduate in Graphic Design or Illustration
• Some commercial design experience, ideally in with an interest or experience of packaging design
• Interest in typography
• Show us your portfolio of brand and design work
• Excellent capability in Adobe CC
• Efficient, organised and skilled in prioritising and time management.
Nice to have…
• Drinks experience or wine label experience
• Worked in other packaging agencies
• Illustration skills
• Great photoshop skills
To be successful, you’ll be able to:
• Respond energetically and imaginatively to creative briefs
• Communicate your ideas clearly and quickly
• Manage your time well, problem solve
• Manage and update project design activity
More specifically, you will be asked to:
• Produce creative ideas for prospective and existing clients;
• Communicate well with the rest of the team to deliver brilliant work on time and to budget;
• Take part, as required, in creative brief brainstorming and brand name generation.
• Maintain awareness of market trends and innovation in design (particularly label design), print and design software - and share with the team; and
• Take responsibility for your own creative and professional development.
• General studio administration as needed.
WE ARE
A small but growing team who play to each other’s strengths. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work hard but we also don’t like to work late (we have lives to live too); so we are focussed about the job to be done. We like to work with a sense of humour and purpose.
On Wine Tuesdays we share a bottle to learn a bit more about the good stuff and have team lunch one day a week so we can sit down together, eat and catch up.
In essence we’re a family-style studio where we encourage individuals to grow within their roles and develop their skills.