Graphics Designer

 Responsibilities:

• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Presenting finalized ideas, concepts, and designs to clients or account managers
• Interpreting the client's business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose
• Estimating the time required to complete the work and providing quotes for clients
• Using innovation to redefine a design brief within the constraints of cost and time
• Working with a wide range of media, including photography and computer-aided design (CAD)
• Proofreading to produce accurate and high-quality work
• Contributing ideas and design artwork to the overall brief
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches
• Working on layouts and artwork pages ready for print
• Keeping abreast of emerging technologies in new media, particularly design programs such as InDesign, FreeHand, Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Dreamweaver, and Flash etc
• Advise clients on strategies to reach a particular audience
• Work as part of a team with printers, copywriters, photographers, stylists, illustrators, other designers, account executives, web developers and marketing specialists
• Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design
• Any other related task delegated by the line manager.

 Requirements:

• The desired candidate should ideally be a graduate of Arts or a similar professional background (OND/HND/ B.Sc.)
• Must have 4 – 5 years of work experience as a core graphic artist from the printing industry
• Knowledge of pre-press operations
• Must be able to do page planning and imposition
• Must be very creative and present a portfolio of designs created and of course, will carry out a practical test at the client’s place
• Desired candidate MUST have worked in the printing industry
• Must be IT savvy (Photoshop, Corel Draw) etc
• Skilled in the use of CorelDraw Graphic Suite and all Adobe software suites especially InDesign and Illustrator.
• Organizational skills with attention to detail
• Reporting skills, deadline-oriented, time management
• Reasoning ability, mathematical ability, and logical thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills

Work Days: 

• Monday - Friday
• Some Saturdays, as work demands