Graphic Design Apprentice

Summary

Are you passionate about design and eager to dive into the creative world of graphic and digital design? MBA Group Ltd is excited to offer an apprenticeship opportunity where you can grow your skills, learn from experienced designers, and work toward earning a BA degree through a Digital Design Degree Apprenticeship.

Annual wage: £18,000 a year
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Training course: Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:30
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 8 January
Duration: 3 years
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Creating Visuals: Help design graphics for our website, social media, and other marketing materials.
Supporting the Team: Collaborate with designers to keep our visual brand consistent.
Learning and Practicing: Create infographics, presentations, and other visuals that engage our audience.
Gaining Practical Experience: Help create promotional materials for events and brainstorm ideas during team sessions.
Exploring Design Trends: Stay curious and up-to-date with the latest design trends.

Where you’ll work

Hend House

233 Shaftesbury Avenue

London

WC2H 8EE

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.
Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.

Your training plan

TBC

More training information

3 hour online session every Wednesday.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade Level 2, Grade C/4)
Maths (grade Level 2, Grade C/4)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

Graphics/Art Digital design or equivalent (grade 6-9)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Team working
Creative
Initiative

About this company

MBA Group Limited is a dynamic and innovative communications group with a large heritage in print. We act as a conduit between our clients and their customers, across every inbound and outbound channel. With offices in Tottenham, Warrington and Central London we are committed to delivering exceptional service to our clients.

http://www.mba-group.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Graphic Designer

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MBA GROUP LIMITED

Alex Slowinska

aslowinska@mba-group.com

02083764464

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286455.

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