Job Specification
Position: Mid-Weight Brand Designer
Start date: July 2025
Location: 55 Baker Street, London
The Yard Creative is looking for a Graphic Designer to join our growing team and help to continue driving the business forward. As a boutique design agency that ‘only works with people who want to challenge a sector’, our ability to see the world differently from others and identify opportunities for our clients is what inspires us. Our clients have already voted TYC as the No. 3 Branding design agency in the UK and the Top 50 in the world.
You will be supporting the Creative Director and creative teams in the delivery of evidential-led, strategic brand, comms, and marketing work for our clients, backed by solid skills in Graphic, motion and digital design, full of curiosity and creativity mixed with an ability to think differently and innovate past the norm. You will also be responsible for leading the creative on smaller projects.
This person must be willing to work across multiple projects with big brands as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups, working in all sectors including lifestyle and consumer brands, FMCG, fintech, Property, and retail. You will be working alongside an integrated team of creatives who specialise in research, strategy, brand, UX/UI and 3D design in the lifespan of a project. The person will be expected to produce project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard with guidance from the more senior members of the team.
Roles and responsibilities
* Generating ideas and supporting the creative director and wider design team
* Developing graphic design and brand concepts across an array of sectors and projects
* Design development across print, digital and environmental graphics
* Art working for print and digital and supplier liaison (printers and developers)
* Brand identity rollout; specifically across marketing materials, uniforms and packaging
* Attending client meetings and verbally contributing to discussions and presentations
* Copywriting under the guidance of the senior members of the team
* Time management
Specific skills required for the role:
* Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
* Solid understanding of the design process and experience across the entire design lifecycle
* Previous experience in design strategy
* Great skills in creating bespoke brands/identities
* Great sketching and illustration skills
* Confidence in expressing ideas/presentation skills
* Great experience in art working, print production techniques and print management
* Confident client liaison skills
* Actively interested in keeping up to date with trends and technology, with a love for all that’s new and innovative, regularly visiting exhibitions and events
* Self-starter with good time-keeping
* Experience working directly with clients and wider project teams
* Expert Apple Mac user
* Experience with MS Office
* Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud
* Experience/familiarity with the use of social listening tools
* Experience in social media strategies and content creation
* Excellent use of animation, video and digital software and tools
* Excellent use of with digital, UX/UI design
This person must be excited by exploring new things in the world of graphic design in the sectors of Global brands, Beauty and Wellbeing, Sports, Retail, Food & Beverage, Property Development and Hospitality.
This person must be willing to work across multiple projects with global brands, landlords and entrepreneurs. Working as part of the graphics team, the person will be expected to produce project deliverables to an exceptionally high standard with guidance from our Senior designers and Directors.
Roles and responsibilities
- Creating new brands from scratch
- Developing graphic design concepts across an array of brands and projects
- Design development across print, digital and environmental graphics
- Artworking for print and digital and supplier liaison (printers and developers)
- Brand identity roll out; specifically across marketing materials, uniforms and packaging
- Working with junior members of the team and helping them join and develop
- Attending client meeting and verbally contributing to discussions and presentations
- Copywriting under the guidance of the senior members of the team
- Time management
Specific skills required for the role:
• Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
• Solid understanding of the design process and experience across the entire design lifecycle
• Previous experience in design strategy
• Great skills in creating bespoke brands / identities
• Great sketching and illustration skills
• Confidence in expressing ideas / presentation skills
• Great experience in art working, print production techniques and print management
• Confident client liaison skills
• Actively interested in keeping up to date with trends and technology, with a love for all that’s new and innovative, regularly visiting exhibition and events
• Self-starter with good time keeping
• Experience of working directly with clients and wider project teams
• Expert Apple Mac user
• Experience of MS Office
• Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud
About TYC
TYC is an award-winning, strategic design studio based in London. We are creative catalysts, partnering with people who want to challenge their sector. We are a growing team of passionate creatives who thrive on building great relationships with our clients and expert partners.
What we’ll do for you
In exchange for bringing it every day, we’ll ensure you’ll be a part of a wide variety of creative challenges, work with Global Brands and entrepreneurs, have exposure to many different aspects of the business and continue to learn every step of the way. We’ll support you and believe in you. You’ll get a strong work-life balance. You’ll be involved in all our cultural activities. Everyone who works at TYC receives a laptop to work seamlessly across our studio, breakout, or client spaces, as well as up to 3 days a week from home as part of our hybrid working policy.
And lastly
You’ll be part of an agency whose profits go towards affecting climate, demographic and economic change. At a time when we’re all telling our clients to have a bigger purpose, we’re leading the way and showing others how it's done.
Who will you be?
You’ll be your own person. Be confident in who you are, stand up for what you believe and never hide what you know. You’ll share everything you know to help others around you grow and flourish whilst be inquisitive to ask them questions back. People will describe your knowledge and energy as infectious. You’ll of course have a passion for what you do (otherwise why are you doing it?!), bring energy to the team and help grow our culture. And you’ll know your stuff. You’ll not bluff your way through, never lie and always have TYC front of mind.
What we’ll do for you
In exchange for bringing it every day, we’ll ensure you’ll manage a wide variety of creative challenges, work with Global Brands and entrepreneurs, have exposure to many different aspects of the business and continue to learn at every step of the way. We’ll support you and believe in you. You’ll get a strong work-life balance. You’ll be involved in all our cultural activities.
And lastly
You’ll be part of an agency whose profits go towards affecting climate, demographic and economic change. At a time when we’re all telling our clients to have a bigger purpose, we’re leading the way and showing others how it’s done.
Qualifications required:
• 2:1 or higher Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Branding or Design