Key skills for graphic
designers :
- Excellent IT skills, especially with design and
photo-editing software
- Exceptional creativity and innovation
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- An understanding of the latest trends and their role
within a commercial environment
- Professional approach to time, costs and deadlines
- We also expect a good
knowledge of design software, InDesign, Aftereffect,
Illustrator plus
photo-editing software, including Photoshop.
Our production crew
work mainly nine-to-six, but deadlines may require working
additional hours.
Duties :
Often working with directors and creative
directors, writers, technicians, producers and other
departments, broadcast
designers are generally good listeners and effective
communicators. They must
possess adequate drawing and composition skills because many
ideas and
presentations begin with a sketch or storyboard. Storyboards
are illustrative
outlines of a scene or sequence of scenes to be filmed or
animated later.
Broadcast designers often work under tight
deadlines. Often working with the latest design software,
broadcast designers
must stay abreast of technological advances, such as the
advent of digital
television. Designers usually work normal hours, but may
shift them to
accommodate project schedules and deadlines
Graphic
designers/artists design graphics for use in media products.
Typical activities
include:
Liaising with producers to determine their
requirements
Managing directors and producers proposals from typesetting
through to design and production
Working with production team, briefing and advising
them
with regard to design style, format, production and
timescales
Developing concepts, graphics and layouts for product
illustrations, logos, and more
Determining size and arrangement of illustrative material
and copy, and font style and size
Preparing rough drafts of material based on an agreed brief
Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements if
required .
