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Art director, Stylist, 12 month FTC
Are you a designer who can create creative and innovative magazine covers, as well as multi-media assets? Then this may be the role for you.
We’re looking for a creative and enthusiastic art director, with experience in print and digital, to lead our award-winning art team and design direction.
From making covers to overseeing digital assets, you’ll be leading design across all of our editorial and marketing platforms, ensuring that Stylist remains one of the UK’s best-designed media brands.
About us
The Stylist Group is a women-focused media brand. Through our monthly magazine, live events and non-stop digital content, Stylist reaches a monthly audience of over 4.5 million and helps market thousands of global brands. We keep a commitment to feminism, equality and female empowerment at the heart of everything we do.
Key responsibilities
- To design weekly covers for print and digital that become global talking points. Covers should be creative, innovative and multi-media where possible
- To oversee the monthly design direction of the magazine to ensure it is full of visual surprises and produced to an award-winning level
- To manage a team of designers across platforms, ensuring all digital assets are on-brand and visually enticing
- To create dynamic, multi-media assets with the design and photography teams for social
- To oversee, and create when required, marketing campaigns for various parts of the Stylist brand
- To support Stylist’s ecommerce brand, The Drop, with design work as needed
Knowledge, skills, experience
- Demonstrable relevant experience working on both print and digital design, with proven expertise in creating magazine covers
- Proficient in the Adobe Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator
- A passion for exploring new digital trends and products – understanding the necessary skills to create innovative new formats
- A wealth of contacts in the illustration and art world
- Experience in working at speed and to tight deadlines
Desirable
- Management experience is also desirable
Deadline is 6pm, Monday 6th June 2022
Please note: We thank you in advance for any applications; only candidates invited for interview will be contacted. No agencies please.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.
Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Mid-Level
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