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Graphic Designer
City Fabrick / Long Beach, CA
Posted on: July 22, 2022
Application Deadline: August 26, 2022
Job Description
ABOUT CITY FABRICK:
City Fabrick is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary design studio restoring, reshaping, and empowering communities through collaborative public-interest, design, planning, policy development, and advocacy. We partner with governments, health agencies, affordable housing providers, community partners, and other nonprofit organizations to address environmental justice, food insecurity, open space access, transportation safety, climate resiliency, housing affordability, and gentrification. Based in Southern California, City Fabrick is an independent organization that works beyond the conventional client-consultant framework, having the capacity to collaborate with community partners on mission-related work as well as make positive change in the community by supporting resident-led initiatives.
City Fabrick’s collaborative structure provides City Fabrick team members the ability to work across a range of project types and scales, whether developing messaging for advocacy campaigns, developing material for engaging residents about planning, or informing residents of what makes a pedestrian paradise, or facilitating community workshops. This creative nimbleness goes to the core of our approach to problem solving someone goes to an architecture firm and receives an architect’s solution; they go to a landscape architecture firm and are given a landscape design solution; and so on. City Fabrick recognizes the solution involves elevating community voices and might be something as radical as removing a freeway, or simple as designing a multilingual flier, or as unexpected as painting surplus roadway with beautiful patterns to become a public plaza.
Our multidisciplinary design studio operates as a fertile environment for creative experimentation; constantly looking for ways to redefine the physical environment for people. As City Fabrick’s work includes a broad range of project types, applicants will be expected to be flexible, collaborative, and resourceful. Current projects span environmental design, graphic design, branding, and communications, building design, landscape design, urban design, planning and policy development.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Under supervision of the Principal and Directors, the Graphic Designer [Designer] will work with a diverse team of designers and planners on a wide variety of projects through all aspects of research, design, engagement, and production. The work spans all scales and types of publicly beneficial projects, collaborating with other nonprofit organizations, government agencies, local partners, and residents to make positive change in communities. These current projects include but are not limited to branding and style guides, community programs, planning and design for new parks and affordable housing communities, policy initiatives related to food systems and climate resilient communities. This position will require strong design and creative capacities in addition to communication and organizational skills.
The Designer should have a passion to tell stories through visual narrative, with an aptitude for content creation, an interest in cities and a solid understanding of the influence that design, communications, and community engagement have on building community. This position involves a solid understanding of the dynamics of communication, from printed and electronic collateral to physical installations and environmental graphics to personal contact and social media, and how to effectively use these tools to share ideas and engage residents, stakeholders, and partners to accomplish collective goals. City Fabrick expects a self-motivated Designer that takes an active part in defining solutions and success with our clients and partners.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Communicate ideas and develop optimized creative assets across multiple mediums at various scales, both digital and physical.
- Conduct research for the organizational, cultural and physical context of a project
- Assist the Principal and Directors providing design and creative services with emphasis on creativity, technical proficiency and processing, quality control, and effective use of resources.
- Enthusiastically serve community interests through authentic public engagement, educational programming, and advocacy that leads to sustained community empowerment.
- Coordinate work product with clients, community partners, consultants, contractors, fabricators, and regulatory agencies to meet project objectives and requirements.
- Maintain clear records and communications, produce and coordinate work through all phases of project research, design, engagement, documentation, and administration
- Participate in the management of organization activity including communications, graphic standard development/maintenance, quality assurance, strategic planning and learning.
- Produce graphics and communication tools for project designs, processes, and documentation.
- Follow protocol on all office procedures as directed by the Principal and Directors.
- Support City Fabrick team members during community engagements activities.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
- Must have bachelor or master’s degree from an accredited Graphic Design or Fine Arts Program, or sufficient professional graphic design experience working within the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design/planning industries
- Effective organizational skills with the ability to work concurrently on multiple, different tasks and projects, in a variety of roles
- High degree of personal motivation. Self-initiating with the ability to solve problems independently or as part of a team under the shared leadership of the Principal and Directors
- Adept at communicating with community partners, public, clients, consultants, government agencies and colleagues. Fluency in a second language [specifically Spanish, Khmer, Tagalog, or ASL] is preferred though not required
- Proficient with the latest versions of Adobe Creative Suite [Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, Lightroom] and Microsoft/Google Office [Work and Excel]
- Solid editorial ability for presentations, books [digital and print], and websites
- Understanding of web and motion graphics a plus but not required.
- Must be familiar with a camera and photography
- Strong intuitive sense for design and the design process. Excellent graphic and visualization skills; must be capable of expressing design ideas quickly, with clarity and precision
- Comfortable with dogs at the office when puppies are back in the office
- Ability to work remotely and in-person. We are currently working in a hybrid office structure. Must reside in Southern California
- 0-5 years of experience working in an urban design/planning, communications, architecture, or landscape architecture organization performing duties like those described above
Application Instructions
Candidates should send their resume, cover letter, and portfolio of work as PDF files or website to [email protected]. Please do not call to inquire. Salary would be $50-65,0000, negotiated based on experience, expertise, and skillsets. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision insurance; short-term and long-term disability insurance; educational stipend and sabbatical; generous paid time off, and flexible work environment. City Fabrick is an equal opportunity employer and equal benefits providers.
