hachette: Designer (PT)

Designer is needed in Chichester, United Kingdom.

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Client: hachette

Location: Chichester, United Kingdom

Contract: Part Time, Freelance

What you’ll be doing

• Assisting with and creating designs for book covers, internal pages and sales and publicity materials (including posters, flyers, badges, etc.)
• Typesetting sample pages
• Implementing editorial corrections from marked proofs
• Preparing and processing digital artwork and photographs for print
• Creating print-ready pdfs
• Prioritising project workloads, in concert with editors, freelance designers and sales and publicity teams
• Preparing and supplying briefs and files for freelance typesetters (using parent pages and paragraph/character styles in InDesign), checking the quality of freelance work returned and providing feedback to them where necessary
• Performing pre-flight checks to in-house parameters, sending files (including advance covers and book files) to print and checking proofs from printers
• Creating, sending and checking reprint files/proofs

Who we are looking for

You will be highly organized with the ability to prioritise, work under pressure, and to tight deadlines. You must have a flexible proactive approach with excellent time management skills and be a strong communicator. You will have a clear passion for design and a keen eye for cover and layout design, as well as typographic detail, and be able to adapt your design skills to the wide-ranging demands of the role.

Essential Skills

• Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat
• Familiar with Microsoft Office software, including Word and Outlook
• Effective time management and organisational skills

This is a part time role based at our Chichester office, with a blend of in-office (2 days) and homeworking (1 days), in total of 3 working days per week.