Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
Experienced Architectural Brand and Graphic Designer Job at Industrial Designers
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), New York, NY, United States, 10261
Overview
We are seeking a creative, engaged, strategic-minded Brand and Graphic Designer to join a team interested in exploring the overlap between architectural design, strategic narrative, and spatial branding.
You Will Create Impact By
- Embracing project goals and concepts and helping develop and drive design that supports them.
- Providing creative initiation of design ideas, both independently and with teams.
- Offering and actively soliciting constructive and clear critical design feedback.
- Communicating complex ideas with clarity: visually, verbally, graphically, and in writing.
- Being passionate about design and having a point of view
- Caring as much about the culture and people you work with as the project.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design conversation throughout the full project duration
- Produce multiple iterations of design options in early stages of the process, and develop and refine them through to a final deliverable product.
- Actively engage with all disciplines, including Architecture, Strategy, Interior Design, Graphic Design, and Brand Design, to produce integrated projects
- Work closely with architectural teams to design strategies and generate narratives, and produce the communicating materials to express them with graphic clarity and punch
- Communicating complex ideas with clarity—graphically, verbally, and in writing—to both internal teammates and external partners, including client engagement
Qualifications
- +/- 6-10 years of a mix of hands-on branding, graphic design, and spatial design experience in a design-focused architectural office or similar.
- Work examples that demonstrate, in addition to technical acumen, a sophisticated design sensibility
- Professional degree in architecture, branding and/or graphic design, or a closely related field, from an accredited institution. While not required, a background in architecture is highly desirable.
- Expert digital and physical graphic production, through demonstrated skill with the following programs/devices: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop), Google Workspace (Slides, Sheets, Docs), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Digital and hard copy printing
- Experience with the following programs, helpful but not mandatory: Adobe Aftereffects or other motion/animation platforms, AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino
- Excellent English language communication skills
- Legally eligible to work in the United States, without need for employee sponsorship
- Available to start within 2-3 weeks of interview
- Currently living in NYC area and/or willing & able to relocate quickly