Brand / Graphic Designer

The Yard Creative is looking for a Graphic Designer to join our growing team and help to continue driving the business forward. As a boutique design agency that ‘only works with people who want to challenge a sector’ our abilities to see the world differently from others and identify opportunities for our clients is what inspires us. Our clients have already voted TYC as the No3 Branding design agency in the UK and the Top 50 in the world.

You will be supporting the Creative Director in the delivery of evidential-led, strategic brand, comms, and marketing work for our clients, backed by skills in Graphic, motion and digital design, full of curiosity and creativity mixed with an ability to think differently and innovate past the norm. You will also be responsible for leading the creative on smaller projects.

This person must be willing to work across multiple projects with big brands as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups, working in all sectors including lifestyle and consumer brands, FMCG, fin-tech, Property, and retail. You will be working alongside an integrated team of creatives who specialise in research, strategy brand, UX/UI and 3D design in the lifespan of a project. The person will be expected to produce project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard with guidance from the more senior members of the team.

Roles and responsibilities

• Generating ideas and supporting the creative director and wider design team
• Developing graphic design and brand concepts across an array of sectors and projects
• Design development across print, digital and environmental graphics
• Art working for print and digital and supplier liaison (printers and developers)
• Brand identity rollout; specifically, across marketing materials
• Attending client meetings and verbally contributing to discussions and presentations
• Copywriting under the guidance of the senior members of the team
• Time management

Specific skills required for the role:

• Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
• Solid understanding of the design process and experience across the entire design lifecycle
• Previous experience in design strategy and branding
• Great skills in creating bespoke brands/identities
• Great sketching or illustration skills
• Confidence in expressing ideas/presentation skills
• Great experience in art working, print production techniques and print management
• Confident client liaison skills
• Actively interested in keeping up to date with trends and technology, with a love for all that’s new and innovative, regularly visiting exhibitions and events
• Self-starter with good time-keeping
• Experience working directly with clients and wider project teams
• Expert Apple Mac user
• Experience of MS Office
• Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud
• Experience/familiarity with the use of social listening tools
• Experience in social media and content creation
• Excellence use of animation, video and digital software and tools
• Experience/familiarity with digital and UX/UI design

About TYC

TYC is an award-winning, strategic design studio based in London. We are creative catalysts, partnering with people who want to challenge their sector. We are a growing team of passionate creatives who thrive on building great relationships with our clients and expert partners.

What we’ll do for you

In exchange for bringing, it every day, we’ll ensure you’ll be a part of a wide variety of creative challenges, work with Global Brands and entrepreneurs, have exposure to many different aspects of the business and continue to learn every step of the way. We’ll support you and believe in you. You’ll get a strong work-life balance. You’ll be involved in all our cultural activities. Everyone who works at TYC receives a laptop to work seamlessly across our studio, break out or client spaces as well as up to 3 days a week from home as part of our hybrid working policy.

And lastly

You’ll be part of an agency whose profits go towards affecting climate, demographic and economic change. At a time when we’re all telling our clients to have a bigger purpose, we’re leading the way and showing others how it's done.