Hearst UK, Designer - Lifestyle Hub
- Employer
- Hearst Magazines UK
- Location
- London (Central)
- Salary
- £DoE
- Closing date
- 12 May 2019
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- Industry
- Journalist
- Job Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Sector
- Consumer Publication, Digital, Lifestyle, Graphic Design
- Discipline
- Designer, Art Editor, Digital Designer, Graphic Artist
Job Details
The Details
The Lifestyle publishing division at Hearst Magazines UK is home to some of the world’s most iconic and successful magazine brands including Good Housekeeping, Country Living, ELLE Decoration, Prima, Red and House Beautiful.
We pride ourselves on giving our readers outstanding quality journalism, originality and unforgettable brand experiences all delivered with passion, creativity and expertise.
The Role
To support the Creative Directors, Art Editors and Senior Designers to maintain the quality of work across Good Housekeeping, Red and Prima.
This is from initial design concept through to the final printed product for each. To design pages to suit the style of each brand, maintaining their brand identity always.
Key responsibilities:
- Working with the Creative Directors, Art Editors and the Art Hub to ensure the design perfectly complements the editorial content and follows the house style whilst maintaining the individual style, design and look of each brand
- Support the Art Hub in the design and layouts of all pages
- Marking up pages to be sent to press and pre-media
- Checking colour proofs, ensuring pages are of an excellent standard and any corrections or instructions have been actioned when requested
- Scanning if needed and supporting the art team with general administrative tasks
- Attending shoots where necessary
- Design regular pages and features across all titles
- Attend art meetings and generate exciting ideas for layout of features and regular pages
- Commission illustrations, when appropriate and after approval from Creative Director
- Assist the advertising and promotions team with requests for their clients e.g dummy layouts
- To work with industry-standard toolsets to complete your work, as well as work within the proscribed processes of the structured workflow systems used to create editorial content
- Design for digital, events and brand marketing as necessary
- You will be required to undertake commercial editorial work as and when requested by the Company
The Person:
- Ability to work effectively to meet deadlines
- Fully adaptable – able to design across all titles on all multi-platform offerings
- Ability to build close working relationships with the entire team and completely understand the vision of each brand
- Enthusiasm and endless supply of new ideas
- A passionate approach to work
- The ability to think creatively
- A strong eye for detail
- The ability to be self-motivated
- Proficient in Powerpoint
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Company
Our brilliant employees are what makes Hearst a driving force for innovation.
People join us because they love our brands, but they stay because we are a company that nurtures passion and creativity, all while striving towards a shared goal of excellence and originality.
We are looking to recruit exceptionally talented individuals, who not only have a chance to shape our friendly and creative culture, but work with world-class brands and mould their own careers in a truly unique environment.
- Website
- http://hearst.co.uk/
- Location
-
72 Broadwick Street
London
W1F 9EP
GB
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