Freelance Editorial Brand UI Designer

• Title: Freelance Editorial Brand UI Designer
• Start: Yesterday
• Length: 1-3 months (to be extended)
• Client: International multi-channel media company
• Day rate: £500 per day
• IR35: Inside IR35 (client has requested to use an Umbrella to invoice, not your Ltd)
• Work set-up: Working 5 days a week: 2 days in-house per week; 3 days are remote (cannot be changed)
• Location: High Street Kensington
• Brief:

  – Digital Native Designer.

  – The brand is the subscription.

  – Ideally, having worked in editorial companies.
  
  – Build the beginning of a Design System in Figma.

  – Make the beginning of the Design System feel coherent.

  – Ability to work with old-school print designers and senior editors.

  – The team have done the overall look and feel from a print point of view.

  – Creating a Brandbrook for internal use, brand narrative and visual language to give to the marketing team.

  – Create a digital “brand book” working alongside their editorial second-in-command and creative director.

  – To map out all the digital touch-points and build a lightweight brand book, either a PDF or a small website.

  – Need someone who has done brand book, Design Systems and has some exposure to a news/magazine business.
  
  – The artefact they are looking for at the end is the beginning of the Design System in Figma and a PDF with internal guidelines for use by marketing, their events and tour businesses.

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements