Careers at Garfield

Sr. Art Director - Newtown, PA

Are you an Art Director looking for your next career move? Do you like big ideas that push your (and your clients) creative boundaries? Are you a special blend of both great designer and conceptual thinker?

Then meet the Garfield Group, a leading Interactive, Branding, and Public Relations agency with a distinguished client roster. We're looking for a Senior Art Director to join our award-winning team in Newtown, PA.

As an agency, Garfield Group's core focus is on technology, healthcare and life sciences brands. We offer our clients an integrated "no boundaries" approach to marketing communications - creating online and offline programs that drive measurable results. We have two offices-- Philadelphia (Newtown, PA) and Boston (Newton, MA).

We offer excellent compensation and benefits along with the opportunity to progress, grow and make a difference.

Responsibilities:

As an Senior Art Director you'll be responsible for creating and refining the creative concepts and organizing the creative resources necessary to accomplish the objectives of assigned projects and clients. We are looking for someone who has innovative thinking and award winning design abilities. You must possess a keen knowledge of branding and interactive, and the creative advantages of the two. In addition, you should be able to develop well-defined and leading-edge online experiences in advertising and Web design. The Senior Art Director is responsible for maintaining the integrity of design, while ensuring that the creative is strategically on target, on time and on budget.

• Contributes to strategic solutions with the Creative Director and Account team
• Establishes a visual aesthetic for the project in keeping with the brand identity
• Responsible for overseeing the design process on assigned projects
• Maintains and promotes design consistency of look, tone and feel to assigned projects
• Leads critiques of work in group and individual sessions
• Is able to articulate the benefits of the creative approaches, internally and to clients
• Is able to participate in the development of proposals for sales
• Must be able to interpret strategic objectives into tactics that a design team can execute
• Creating design concepts, story boards, sketches, animation and style guides
• Facilitates / participates in creative brainstorms

Requirements:

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design, Fine Arts or equivalent from an from accredited art/design school, and 5 years of graphic design and/art direction experience, with at least 1 year in a supervisory position.

Strong design skills that fit brand strategy, and the ability to evaluate work of self and others.

a portfolio of conceptual work and brand development

Experience leading large complex projects.

Artistic with an eye for detail.

A passion for great work and a ability to inspire others .

Must have a strong working knowledge of common design programs, such InDesign, Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator

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