2D/Graphic Designer – full time (or min 6-month contract)
Job Description
About Perfect Cartel:
Perfect Cartel is a creative event design, event production and luxury brand experience agency, specialising in the beauty, fashion and lifestyle industries. With two global hubs (one in London, the other New York) they are fast growing and create beautiful environments and experiences globally.
Perfect Cartel work primarily across high profile PR and marketing moments - luxury experiential events, product launches, dinners, parties and consumer-facing retail activations.
Our regular clients include Cartier, Michael Kors, La Mer, Fenty Beauty, WhatsApp, Kate Spade, Coinbase
The role:
Perfect Cartel is looking for a talent 2D / Graphic Designer who might have experience across a number of mediums. They are a strong self-leader and conceptual thinker with the highest creative standards that can independently and consistently execute compelling work, translating vision from brief to actualisation.
The designer will understand how to translate a marketing / PR objective into a visually exciting and effective creative experience for brands. They will work on creative concept & design, campaigns, creating beautiful and compelling presentations, art direction, graphic design across print and digital, mood boards, interior design and layouts, ad-hoc creative design work.
You will have 5+ years in a similar role, within a similar client base and enjoy working across luxury and discerning brands across beauty, fashion and lifestyle- understanding the specific nuances and needs of each brand and elevating this to the highest level.
Essential – Exceptional Adobe Suite knowledge across key programs – InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
Our producers and clients work regularly in Keynote and Google Slides for presentations
Desired – Illustration or animation, SketchUp, CAD, Cinema 4D and/or spatial visualisation, interior styling, set-design skill & interest.
Responsibilities -
• You will be integral in developing visual narrative and strong story-telling to in-coming client briefs whilst understanding experiential, events design and production and how to translate brand and product identity.
• Have a deep insight in how to produce Event design creative that performs as part of a wider content strategy and aligns across multiple platforms & channels – from IRL production assets, to social and across digital
• High level of mood-boarding and presentation curation, a great eye and solid conceptual thinker
• Be able to implement a combination of design skills at different stages of a project including photoshop, typography, graphics and art direction
• Creative Pitches/Concepts – Contributing to creative and strategic discussion around new briefs and responsible contributing to the response including concept ideation, visual curation, working with artists, materials sourcing and event-relevant materials.
• Managing own workflow and deadlines in relation to projects; must work well and collaboratively under pressure.
• Be able to put the client/brand at the centre and find solutions to creative problems.
• Spatial Design – Knowledge and experience of spatial design - retail, merchandising, architectural & floorplans in event or retail space is desirable
• Implementation of brand guidelines – keen to push and challenge, not limit!
• Preparing assets for production. Must be able to communicate with suppliers and adapt design based on ad hoc requirements. High level of attention to detail.
About you:
• You will have the highest attention to detail and focused on delivering an outstanding standard of work.
• A team player who is keen to collaborate and support other team members
• Culturally savvy - You will be well read and interested in what is happening in the design, events, retail and arts industries - instinctively knowing what’s hot and not and to challenge the norm.
• A love of our industry – a point of view and an eagerness to tackle challenging (but rewarding) creative briefs.
Company benefits:
• Hybrid working (3 days in the studio)
• Free daily studio breakfasts
• 23 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Apple equipment + second screens
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• NEST Pension
• Summer & Winter Parties
• Workplace training/courses