Freelance Designer Job Description
Freelance Designer Duties & Responsibilities
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Freelance Designer Qualifications
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Education for Freelance Designer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the freelance designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Graphic Design, Design, Fine Arts, Media Design, Composition, Art, Communications, Industrial Design, Technical, Fashion Design
Skills for Freelance Designer
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Freelance Designer Examples
Freelance Designer Job Description
- Design banners, ads, postcards, site take overs, and promotions for conventions
- Support the company's apps
- Support outreach and user acquisition
- Produce social content & accompanying strategies to engage existing communities and build new ones
- Tap into both crazy innovative ideas and proven past experiences to strengthen engagement on clients’ key social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, Vine)
- Solid experience and understanding of typography, color theory, and photo composition principles
- Work with the team to deliver big ideas on native advertising and social content cross-clients, and to ideate on and execute successful social media campaigns
- Engage in consultative planning to meet business requirements and optimize the social experiences
- Produce graphics for both print and web formats
- Carry over established campaign creative look and feel across various online assets
- 5+ years experience in graphic and visual design working within a fast-paced agency and/or in-house digital creative environment
- BA or BFA in graphic design, web design or equivalent
- Digital Portfolio of unique work, showcasing superior creative
- Well-versed in fundamentals of visual design, typography and photography
- Ability to quickly explore a variety of design solutions to swiftly translate ideas into compelling visuals
- Extensive knowledge of garment construction, pattern making, silhouettes, color ways, sewing techniques, fabrication and trim
Freelance Designer Job Description
- Handle production aspects of web and asset design including image optimization, image slicing and image uploading
- Produce professional artwork at an accelerated rate while working independently
- Preflight files for print
- Work closely with design to develop new styles to achieve desired fit and proportion with complete specification for initial development through production approval
- Complete a high quality Technical Packages, Templates and Block patterns
- Conduct fit sessions for prototype/stock fit samples according to Women's Chaps standards
- Maintains active list of vendor resources , writers, designers, photographers, and Flash developers
- Conduct fit sessions for prototype/stock fit samples according to Women's Woven standards
- Attend showings
- Portfolio with examples of interactive experience a MUST
- Adept at the Adobe Creative Suite
- Best practices with typography and product/lifestyle photo composition
- Strong WEB design portfolio with 4+ years education
- 4+ years of experience working on complex software or eCommerce projects, with medium to large-sized teams
- Self-aware, communicative, flexible, calm and patient under tight deadlines
- A life-long learner, with a continuous eye for improving your craft
Freelance Designer Job Description
- Partner with creative teams to turn brand visions and concepts into digital and social tactics
- Exceptional skills in programs required for your discipline
- Prepare final website graphics, including sizing, compressing, optimizing
- Strong interpretation of trends into key press and commercial pieces and collections including special briefs & using relevant internal and external information to drive product and range development for the customer
- Developing the product strategy in conjunction with the Buyers and Merchandisers, which can then be translated into specific products for Unique
- Following product development through from Brief to Press
- Strong interpretation of trends into commercial designs
- Responsible for hand drawing specs produced by hand
- Ability to build independent color stories
- Creative and inspiring Graphic handwriting with an understanding of the Ivy Park vision
- Highly proficient in Adobe Photoshop on a Mac platform
- Must comprehend logical structure, readability, visual hierarchy and balance
- Advanced understanding of digital formats and screen sizes across devices
- Expert in slicing and creating web ready art work
- Creative, independent self-starter person who digs cool work
- 5+ years of professional experience (either in-house or agency)
Freelance Designer Job Description
- Create commercial and aspirational seasonal graphic updates
- A proven track record in graphic design with a comparable retailer
- Ability to interpret inspiration and trends into commercial graphic designs for the Ivy Park customer
- Ability to work flexibly and to strict deadlines
- Prepare garments for fitting
- Works with team to present concepts to VP/Creative Director, the Account Management team when appropriate
- Design story boards
- Animate motion graphic projects
- Help think/design and pre-produce shoots
- Contribute to the final design and/or animation and deliver the requested design/graphic element(s)
- Prior social media/digital work experience is a must
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and UX software
- Expert knowledge of all social platforms and the creative limitations on each
- Several examples of successfully launched projects which demonstrate the connectivity of authentic brand experiences attention to results-driven detail and functionality
- Able to clearly present to clients and articulate yourself, your ideas, and your work
- Able to iterate rapidly to facilitate fluid, efficient collaboration
Freelance Designer Job Description
- Work collaboratively and flexibly with other members of the Creative Team, Marketing, Product Managers, other departments to achieve project goals while working within brand guidelines
- In collaboration with the Creative Services staff, collaborate, strategize and storyboard concepts
- Maintain weekly garment log with daily updates of all garments received and fitted
- Attend fit sessions on live fit models
- Effectively communicate to vendors all required changes to fit and production samples
- Assist QA department in evaluating current production issues
- Developing an innovative yet commercial range of footwear products to meet business requirements across the UK and Europe for stores and online
- Working closely with the buying teams on colour palettes/Key fabrication and trends for the coming seasons
- Design in both digital and traditional mediums
- Generate innovative ideas and designs
- Possess a strong knowledge of interactive design from color theory to UI/UX
- Understand the opportunities – and challenges – of web and mobile design
- Multi task orientated, is able to meet deadlines and is a team player
- Working knowledge of the latest releases of Photoshop, Illustrator
- Kaledo a must and Gen Digital a plus
- Knowledge of PDM/Illustrator preferred