Location: REMOTE
Salary $30.00 USD Hourly - $32.00 USD Hourly
Description:
Our client is currently seeking a Graphic Designer on a remote w2 contract basis!
Quick Glance: Graphic Designer - Remote
- w2 hourly rate 30.00-32.00/hr remote
- Length of Assignment - 1 plus year with potential conversion to full time
- Average Hours/week 37.5
- Shift/Schedule: fully remote based on geographical location.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design or Graphic Communications or relevant work experience or an equivalent combination for education and experience.
- 1-2+ years of professional experience as a designer/graphic/production artist in packaging design environment. CPG experience a plus.
- Must be able to communicate effectively and professionally with strong interpersonal skill set
- Manage high volume workload
- Strong knowledge and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop and Illustrator, Acrobat, Esko Studio and Studio Advanced.
- Knowledge of printing processes in design development and prepress requirements - offset, dry-offset, silkscreen, flexography, digital and, letterpress, combination, and gravure printing. • Strong knowledge in color correction, digital retouching, development of product renders through the use of Photoshop, Esko Suite software for packaging imagery.
POSITION SUMMARY
- Design and maintain brand identity throughout the creative process of packaging design for client's brand products.
- Create design concepts for packaging adaptations, product line extensions and promotional packaging.
- Support all levels of mechanical execution for packaging with technical understanding the how packaging production decoration method impacts design development.
- Develop packaging render concepts of final and proposed packaging as well as package images.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adapt and interpret Marketing Graphic Briefs into compelling package design concepts that effectively convey brand and design objectives.
- Ensure adaptation of creative, design continuity, communication hierarchy and graphic elements are consistently leveraged across of a variety of packaging forms, sizes, and decoration methodologies for consistency and strong branding presence at retail.
- Partner with internal and external clients to optimize deliverables within fast-paced environment.
- Design to and execute production across multiple brand portfolios in multiple regions leveraging multiple languages, translations, and print converters.
- Interpret requirements of specific printer specifications into mechanical artwork development including print process limitations, ink application, coating, embossing, typography, photography, images, color limitations, min/max dot usage, line weights, safety and UPC truncations/magnifications
- Produce accurate artwork mechanical content established in accordance with regional regulatory requirements for all regulated content including: hazards, warnings, ingredient listings, drug facts box, recycling symbols.
- Generate graphic element files including support logos, icons, symbols, communication bursts for packaging and digital utilization.
- Ensure developed artworks are established against packaging die line requirements for print process and print supplier.
- Create digital packaging images with incorporation of product photography in multiple angles and formatting to support ecommerce site requirements