Design intern, Adult trade

Closing date: 24th March 2025 at 11.59pm

Salary: £27,000

Working hours: 9am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday

Duration: 6 months

Location: Hybrid – minimum of two days per week in the office

Start date: April 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated design intern to join an award-winning design team, creating outstanding covers across adult imprints.

At Bonnier Books UK, they believe that every book matters. They love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. They offer a nurturing home for their authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. They know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and their purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to them becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.

This is the ideal opportunity for an entry level-designer looking to build up their portfolio and skills working across a range of genres and lists, in a creative and supportive environment.

As well as having a strong interest in design, typography, image and illustration, you will have solid organisation skills, including the ability to maintain schedules and meet deadlines. You will also be a clear communicator, as the role will require liaising closely with the editorial, sales and production teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard. Working as part of a close team, you will be taught how to design and reformat covers and learn market trends in different genres in the adult trade division.

Key activities

• Designing outstanding covers
• Being aware of market trends in various genres and being prepared to break the mould and push boundaries with designs
• Liaising with the creative studio manager and other departments including editorial, production, and sales to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard
• Reformatting covers - adjusting, updating, correcting and checking files when needed
• Supporting the team

What we're looking for

• A positive team player with a pro-active approach
• A clear communicator, capable of liaising with various teams and functions across the business
• Someone with good organisational skills and the ability to maintain schedules and meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite / Cloud

Ideally, the team would love to see a portfolio or an example of a creative piece you're most proud of, alongside your CV.

To apply

• Log in to your Creative Access account or register today to apply for this opportunity
• Upload your CV, cover letter and portfolio (optional) as one document
• Applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted
• Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully
• Do not contact the company directly
• Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk

This opportunity is open to individuals from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, people with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.

The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more.