Do you love surface pattern and feel passionate about pottery?...
If so, this Junior Designer role may be just the one for you!
As Junior Designer you will utilise your exceptional design skills to create original, on-brand and innovative surface pattern that accurately reflects the Emma Bridgewater design principles. You will help develop print collections for a wide range of uses including pottery, homeware, gift and paper goods. Through continued research and brand knowledge you will identify key areas of design that can help build the Emma Bridgewater brand and develop new and existing licenced products.
You will support the Senior Designer with a best practice approach and support the rest of the design team with a big emphasis on the back-end management of our Licensed ranges.
You will communicate directly with suppliers and will help to create artwork in a timely and organised fashion. You will actively engage in in-depth research and the creation of concept boards to support your ideas. You will then present your ideas to all levels of the business and to clients in an appropriate and professional manner. From there you will see the project through to sign off, including final artworks, CP management ensuring products are approved and arrive into the business on time.
You will maintain and continually expand upon your knowledge and are encouraged to investigate creative avenues that will enhance our product ranges whilst always maintaining a laser focus on commerciality and cost.
You will attend internal meetings to help further your knowledge of the brand and familiarise yourself with the customer.
You will remain the key touch point for freelance artwork deliveries including scanning artwork clean up and archiving.
Salary : £30,000 per annum
Location : SW London
Contract : Fixed Term Maternity Cover - up to twelve months
Required : Graphic Design or Art Degree, along with solid Adobe Suite Skills
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Advanced Creative Suite skills
- Under the guidance of the Head of Design, the role has a big emphasis on the day-to-day management of our licensed ranges, including partner relationships, critical path management and maintaining our very unique brand DNA across all our Licensed ranges.
- Developing hand drawn spongeware patterns that demonstrate an understanding of the Emma Bridgewater design principles and are suitable for pottery shapes.
- You will take sponge designs and develop them further into supporting patterns for all other areas of the business including artwork for Emma Bridgewater sourced items and Licenced products.
- Working with archive material to develop innovative and new surface pattern and repeats.
- Writing briefs, sending artwork and liaising with factories – Seeing projects from initial briefs through to final samples and sign off with buying team.
- Using archive and new designs to create computer graphics for other sourced product, i.e. textiles, tin, stationery, glass etc.
- Competent at creating final artworks for manufacturing including colour separation, print set-up, using cutter guides, pattern repeats and placements.
- Ensuring all patterns are feasible for manufacture by working closely with the Pre-Production team and/or suppliers and licensees.
- Attending meetings to gain information about sales and production which will help develop new pattern ranges.
- Working closely with the buying team to ensure all products meet specific targets and critical path deadlines for both Sourced and Licenced products.
- Maintain the ‘Pattern Book’ archive.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
- Ad hoc travel to Stoke factory, sourced factories, and licensees when appropriate.
- Displaying behaviour consistent with the personality of the business.
- Conducting any other reasonable tasks as required by the business.
- Undertaking training and development relevant to the role.
- Working in a safe manner taking care for your own health and safety.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: £30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
Experience:
- Adobe Creative Suite: 1 year (required)
- Adobe Illustrator: 1 year (required)
- Adobe Photoshop: 1 year (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
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