If you consider yourself a good graphic designer with a current, contemporary, simplistic style, and above all you see yourself as a very versatile person when it comes to graphic work, you may be the next addition to the Photographer's Blog team. Read on please.
Blog del Fotógrafo
BdF is a reference blog in the Spanish-speaking world in terms of photographic dissemination. We love photography, but we love sharing this passion with our readers just as much or more and teaching them something new every day through our articles, newsletter, digital books and online courses .
For this 2018 that is just beginning, we have a lot of projects that we would like to launch. For many of these projects, the figure of a creative graphic designer is essential.
I AM LOOKING FOR A GRAPHIC DESIGNER WHO IS INVOLVED IN ALL ASPECTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR BLOG DEL FOTOGRAFO
For years I have carried out the graphic design of BdF on my own. I'm not a professional graphic designer or anything like that, but I've been doing my first steps over time, learning things out of necessity, and why not admit it, also for pleasure. Graphic design fascinates me. It's just… I'm not a professional graphic designer. So, over time I have felt the need to pass the baton to a full-fledged graphic designer, one skilled, gifted, specialized, dedicated, someone who does nothing else in life but graphic design and someone who does it WELL, someone who is aware of the latest trends, someone to whom inspiration comes almost effortlessly.
For years I have been trying to hire someone for this task, but I have been getting little disappointments: some, very good ones, did not speak Spanish. They knew how to produce incredible designs, but they had to speak Spanish to be able to communicate in an agile and fast way with the entire BdF team, and generally this first group of designers, usually from Asian or Eastern European countries, did not even speak a word of Castilian.
Others, who perhaps were Spanish or from Spanish-speaking countries, did not offer me the "creative" quality that I expected. Knowing how to use Photoshop, Illustrator or any other graphic design suite does not automatically make you a graphic designer. Well, maybe yes, but I wasn't looking for a simple “graphic designer”, but one that would impress me, that would leave me speechless.
During these years I have observed a very common trait among many graphic designers: many graphic design professionals get carried away by their personal creative impulse and propose designs that "they" like, when in reality a good graphic designer should spend a lot of time to try to understand what his client is looking for and propose a job in the creative direction that he has set for him.
To give you an example, maybe I would ask the designer to design me a Landing Page inspired by the colors and shapes of an Apple product page (famous for its soft colors, soft whites and grays, rounded corners, etc.), and the designer ended up presenting me with a page design with floral motifs, birds, very pretty, without a doubt, but radically opposite to what I was looking for.
For a while I went into a state of "resignation" and concluded that I would continue doing my designs on my own. But as we've gotten closer to the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, I've been realizing that I needed to resume this search.
On the other hand, I had always tried to avoid launching a selection process like this, due to the tediousness of this type of process. In theory, the more people apply, the more chances I have of finding the ideal candidate, but at the same time, a large number of applications would mean a lot, a lot of filtering and selection work, something I hate, why fool ourselves?
For now I am happy to announce that you have just satisfactorily passed the preliminary phase of the process ? If you are thinking of applying for this process and you have read this far, you are one step closer. The fact that this collaboration offer begins with a long text is in itself a first filter. Those who were not willing to read this long introduction might not be the ideal candidate I am looking for ?
CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THE COLLABORATION WILL CONSIST OF?
As a graphic designer you will be responsible for:
- Design all the Landing Pages of the blog and the projects that we launch from the Photographer's Blog. These are landing pages for digital books that we launch every so often, online courses, etc. You have examples here, one for each of our digital books and online courses .
- Design and layout the pages of the digital books that we distribute in PDF format.
- Design and layout the free content that we offer in PDF format to our VIP Readers.
- Design all graphics, illustrations, schematics, etc. that are required by the BdF editorial team to include in the articles we publish on the blog.
- Design graphics for our social networks.
- Ensure that all the designs undertaken maintain graphic cohesion and represent the BdF brand in a uniform and consistent way.
WHAT IS THE PROFILE I AM LOOKING FOR?
- Multi-talented graphic designer, with top notch design skills but also the ability to locate, use or customize external resources (eg templates).
- Extreme attention to detail. Not only the detail at the design and pixel level. Also the fine detail at the level of understanding the needs of BdF, the detail to understand the purpose for which we want a certain design, the detail to understand the dates on which the work must be delivered, and the detail in terms of communicating and give visibility on the progress of the activities.
- You can combine your collaboration in BdF with other work activities or personal projects of yours, however you must be able to respect the agreed times for BdF activities.
- You will naturally be able to work remotely, from home, at the time that suits you.
- I will value as an extra being familiar with WordPress tools, and with HTML5/CSS3/Javascript. Although it is not essential.
DO YOU WANT EXAMPLES?
Enter the BdF books section and click on a book. Any of the Landing Pages that you see there have been designed by a server, as I told you, by someone who does not reach the category of graphic designer. You have another example of LP made by me at the School of the Photographer .
The person I am looking for is someone who will be able to:
- Understand, based on these designs, the artistic and creative style that I am looking for.
- Produce something markedly superior from a graphic and creative point of view.
Here are some examples of current designs that fascinate me. It's not that I like them all as is, but they do contain aesthetic elements that I find interesting:
- Example 1
- Example 2
- Example 3
- Example 4
- Example 5
- Example 6
- Example 7
- Example 8
- Example 9
- Example 10
YOU DARE?
If you see yourself as an ideal candidate for this position, I'd love to meet you and see a sample of what you can offer us. To introduce yourself as a candidate, please write to me at mario at blogdelfotografo.com, in the subject line put “Creative Candidate”, within the email attach your portfolio or links to your profiles where I can see some of your work. If you don't have your work exposed publicly, you can simply attach it to me by private email. Keep in mind that I am looking for someone with experience, so it is important that I can check some of your previous designs.
In this first phase I don't need more. I will make a first screening and I will notify you, by email, to those of you who have submitted how things have gone. Keep in mind that depending on the number of applications this may take me longer than I would like. If you see that I do not answer you quickly, please do not despair. I promise to respond to all applications with a final resolution .
If you dare, I wait for your email: mario at blogdelfotografo.com
seduce me
PS: This is a freelance job offer. The selected candidate will receive a fee for their collaboration in BdF. I will discuss fee details with the candidate on an individual basis as fees will largely depend on the individual's worth.
