Midweight Digital Designer at Historic Newspapers

7 months ago


Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom Wonderbly Full time

**Midweight Digital Designer at Historic Newspapers**

**What we do at Historic Newspapers**

At Historic Newspapers, we are proud custodians of the world’s largest collection of privately owned ORIGINAL newspapers. A truly unique gifting option, we have papers available for 99% of dates over the last 100+ years. Having such a unique and comprehensive archive has also allowed us to create a range of exciting Newspaper Book products. These collections of newspaper reproductions make wonderful birthday, anniversary or special date presents.

We work with a large range of newspapers in the UK and US to design and develop an unparalleled range of personalised newspaper gifts.

**Historic Newspapers is now part of Wonderbly**

Wonderbly is an award-winning personalised children’s publisher, and the Children’s Publisher of the Year 2021. It all started in 2013 with a story called Lost My Name. And now, we’ve sold over six million books in nine languages all over the world, helping to make storytime more magical for lots and lots of children (and their grown-ups).

**The person we’re looking for**

We’re looking for a driven and enthusiastic Midweight Designer with a digital bias to join our Creative team. It’s a chance to use your creative brilliance to help our team deliver high-quality, premium campaigns for Historic Newspapers as we grow. We’re a kind, positive bunch of people (and animals - we love an office pup) who seek similar. Hard-working, playful designers really float our boat - so send us examples of your work

**Life as a Midweight Designer at Historic Newspapers**
- It’s your role to help tell the world all about Historic Newspapers and our brand purpose, and of course sell our wonderful books with amazing design/visuals across all channels.
- We are about to embark on a major re-branding exercise. Working with a top agency to bring our image up-to-date. You will be a major part of this process helping to create a wide range of assets and marketing material in the new style.
- You’ll always be on a mission to make Historic Newspapers look and feel it’s very best, so you shouldn’t be afraid to make suggestions in evolving the visual style when appropriate.

**A bit about the role**:
You’ll be working closely with our Creative Director and the creative team on a range of exciting projects, making sure book launches look beautiful, brand campaigns grab customers’ attention and trade campaigns really cut through.
- Taking briefs from the marketing and web teams to work on them as a team or individually.
- Presenting concepts to stakeholders and taking away feedback to continuously improve.
- Getting involved and helping direct Photo-shoots.
- You’ll be using the Adobe Suite on a daily basis.

Hopefully you'll have some or all of the following:

- At least 3 years design experience.
- You have a strong portfolio of high-impact, consumer-facing work.
- Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills including writing copy where required.
- Experience and knowledge of SEO techniques.
- A mastery of design, typography, image creation and retouching.
- After Effects would be a seriously great bonus as well as any other animation software.
- Detail orientated and well organised.
- A good understanding of brand design and campaign development.

First and foremost you should join Historic Newspapers because of the work. We’re on a mission to create exciting, inspirational and beautiful personalised books.
- A salary of up to £30,000 per annum.
- The chance to work on something your friends and family will fall in love with.
- We have a flexible, hybrid working model that you can tailor to suit what works best for you. We're asking our staff to come into our lovely light filled Central London studio at least one day. a week and then to choose what works best for them for the rest of the time.
- 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
- Pension scheme.

**Equal opportunities employer**

Our team are committed to providing equal opportunities for employment regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, disability, family structure, socio-economic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis (it's the law, but it's also just the right thing to do).

Compensation Range: £0 - £30K



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