Location:
1 Liberty Square, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41E9D8

Company:
Designedly

Job Description:
We are seeking a talented and creative Middleweight Brand Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for design, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to bring creative concepts to life. As a Middleweight Graphic Designer, you will work closely with our strategic and creative teams to develop compelling visual assets that effectively communicate client specific brand messaging.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Conceptualise and design a wide range of marketing materials including but not limited to brand identities, digital ads, social media graphics, email campaigns, print collateral, presentations, packaging design and website assets.
• Collaborate with the senior management team to develop creative strategies and concepts that align with our clients brand identities and marketing objectives.
• The ideal candidate will be expected to create engaging and visually appealing designs that capture the attention of specific target audiences and effectively communicate required brand messaging.
• Ensure all designs are on-brand, consistent in style, quality, and align with brand guidelines.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve design quality and effectiveness.

Required Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or related field. 3+ years of professional experience in graphic design, preferably in a creative, marketing or agency environment. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and other relevant design tools. Strong understanding of typography, colour theory, layout, and composition. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to present and explain design concepts to our clients and internal teams. Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy and craftsmanship. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively.

Preferred Skills:
Experience with motion graphics and video editing software (After Effects, Premiere Pro). Experience with UX/UI design is an advantage. Portfolio showcasing a diverse range of design projects demonstrating creativity, technical skill, and attention to detail.

How to Apply: Suitable candidates should send their C.V, a link to portfolio/examples of creative work and a short cover letter to caroline@designedly.ie.

Wherever you are reading this, you are surrounded by design, the boarding pass in your hand, the romantic novel you bought for the poolside, the inflight magazine, the drinks menu of the Irish bar down the street, the signposts when you inevitably get lost, every single one of these things have been designed. And of course if you are sitting in your office only dreaming of your holidays I apologise – step away from booking.com and get back to work. Holidays are the perfect opportunity to people-watch. If you can take the time, grab a nice cup of coffee, sit back, and watch the world go by. You will soon begin to notice that we have a lot of things in common with complete strangers. Our cultures may be different but our roots are the same. And at the end of the day, we all like things to work well, and look even better. I love visiting cities in other countries to see how they interpret design, and also to bask in the inspiration that being on holiday brings. Inspiration can come in a structured form, like signposts and maps, or in a more organic way, even street graffiti can provide inspiration for colour palettes. People shape the places that they live in, as time goes by, people and places changes. I can’t wait to see what inspiration I can find on my next trip! We are closed for our summer holidays from July 22nd to August 5th inclusive. Keep up to date with our adventures on our social media pages and don’t forget to tag us in your posts if you see any good or great design out there!

Our studio will be closed from Friday December 22nd and reopening on Wednesday the 3rd of January.

Our studio will be closed from Friday December 23rd and reopening on Wednesday the 4th of January.

The studio was a combination of the talents of two very different characters who were friends from their college days, Franz Baumgartner whose impeccable typographic skills I admire to this day, and Manfred Brey, hands-down the most creative person I have ever known. The space was shared with a resident photographer who hailed from Bremen, Fred Stichnoth, equally as talented as the other two, in his own field. The studio was often a mix of beautiful models, visiting artists, cigarette smoke, piles upon piles of drafts, visuals, finished art and more. Lived-in, welcoming, chaotic, inspirational, and much more I suppose.

The mainstay of our work centred around the music industry. Two labels had headquarters at the time in Munich. BMG Ariola in the east of Munich and Virgin Records in trendy Schwabing in the north city. A constant flow of LP designs for the two labels included work for artists like Herbert Grönemeyer, Haindling, Heavy Rock and Jazz compilations –  the brief would come in and off we’d go.  We worked a lot on what we used to call Artist Biographies – simple booklets of Artists, everyone acroos a wide musical spectrum from Phil Collins’ Genesis to Bavarian stars of the time like Nikki.

When we think about German Design today, we think ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’.  German Design has always combined innovation with quality to impressive effect across the board.

It has had a huge influence on modern day graphic design worldwide. Flicking through the pages of ‘Pioneers of German Graphic Design’, a 400-page tome by Jens Müller, we see how German art, minimalism and commerce spawned a new form of visual communication. This book, which is true coffee-table eye-candy, explores how the cultural highs and ultimate societal lows in 20^th century Germany bled into every aspect of life, including the field of graphic design. The book focuses on the work of 14 innovate German desingers who introduced new approaches to the field.

My own design likes and influences are modern day designers like Erik Spiekermann who specializes in typography and Otl Aicher in iconography. Spierkermann is quoted as saying “I have been suffering from Typomania all my life, a sickness that is incurable but not lethal”, he is also an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and Art Center College of Design. In 1989, he and his then-wife started the FontShop (the first mail-order distributor for digital fonts). FontShop International followed and now publishes the FontFont range of typefaces.

Aicher’s work was based in part on iconography for the ’64 Games. He created a set of pictograms meant to provide a visual interpretation of the sport they featured so that athletes and visitors to the Olympic village and stadium could find their way around. Aicher created pictograms using a series of grid systems and a specific bright colour palette that he chose for these Games.

Other influences have been the females of German graphic design like Kathe Kollwitz who worked in an era in Germany when women weren’t afforded the opportunities to work in the industry. And of course who could write about German design without mentioning the Bauhaus movement in particular the work of Herbert Beyer.

It is my pleasure on almost a yearly basis to return to Munich and hook up with my two ‘old bosses’ who in fact, have not aged at all. They are both as creative now, as they were back in the day – Franz running a successful commercial art business and Manfred specializing in design of magazine editorial and illustration as well as music graphics.