KINGSLEY HEATH:Graphic Artist OPPORTUNITY
Our design teams are at the heart of what we do. These creative visionaries bring products to life, inspire our customers and create clothing that embodies our high standards for luxury quality and fit. Our brand is known for its exquisite artwork and embellishments. Present us with sketches and designs are the creative touches to each and every one of our pieces. Our teams strive to develop Kingsley Heath as the premier destination for fashion and lifestyle apparel women’s and men’s wear market.
This is a unique, amazing opportunity for you to add the central creative to our your own brand. We are looking for a passionate fine artist who is able to spearhead and advance the creative vision, with the aesthetic of our target customer in mind, season after season.
The responsibilities
- Create exceptional artwork from the briefs and under direction from the head of design within the aesthetic of our brand and target customer
- Add value to the briefs by offering alternative designs.
- Develop creative that has a thread to all the collection.
- Work collaboratively with product development, manufacturing and merchandising to pass requirements each season in the development process.
- Present the designs for sign off from the head of design and CEO.
- Involved in approving graphics and product packaging for the collection.
- Ability to manage multiple seasons at any given time meeting deadlines.
The key relationships
The role will involve interfacing with:
- Reports to: head two designers.
- Works closely with: Trend manager, pre-production manager and sourcing team – technical design and the retail director.
- Also interfaces with: Various external vendors.
Company Description
Kingsley Heath is an innovative women and Men’s fashion boutique that cherishes the luxurious African lifestyle as well excellent design and quality. Offering beautiful clothes and accessories that no one can match at its price point and style.
Providing unparalleled customer service and a personal shopping experience both in store and online.
Kingsley Heath provides guests with a unique vision of what it beautiful about Africa every season. Each season, Kingsley Heath carefully curates its collection of exquisitely designed clothes and accessories.
Conceptualised in 1994 and launched as a single boutique in Dewaterkant Cape Town in December 2007, Kingsley Heath is a privately owned company that fast becoming a retail leader in South Africa. Kingsley Heath has grown organically to include more than 11 boutiques located in select cities across South Africa and the Middle East, including Dubai, Joburg Cape Town and Durban with plans to open 300 stores across the globe in the next five years. KingsleyHeath.com merges a distinct shopping experience that showcases or original designs and engages through social media.
Kingsley Heath is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Requirements
The Competencies
- Values aligned.
- Graphic Design Diploma/Degree – Fine Art.
- One to three years graphic designer/illustrator experience – ideally within the clothing or marketing industry.
- Able to do hand rendered artworks e.g. WACOM board, painting, sketching, drawing
- Full understanding of the design functions within the clothing industry including timelines.
- Operating systems. (CAD)
- Computer literate/Design apps including Freehand, Coral Draw and Illustrator.
- Photograph + deep etch and edit CADS
- Conceptualise print techniques e.g. understand appliqué, hand stitching, embellishment, printing (or interested in learning)
- Ability to produce digital painting and drawing/design of artworks, labels; do photography of samples and ensuring that all artworks are interpreted correctly by our manufacturers.
Advantageous
- Expert knowledge in apparel print and embellishment applications.
- Articulate and concise in communicating vision and ideas
- Excellent sense of style
- Comprehensive understanding of the target market’s aesthetic.
Personal Skills/Attributes
- Ability to work under pressure
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Critical thinking
- Drawing
- Fluency of ideas
- High level of Photoshop and Freehand skills
- Idea generation and reasoning
- Information gathering
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Painting
- Planning/priority setting
- Problem solving
- Scheduling own work activities
- Stress management
Posted on 13 Apr 13:02
Contact details
Ashika Naidoo
Kingsley Heath
+27 31 459 8818
ashika.naidoo@reebok.co.za
