Position: Brand Design Graduate
Start date: July 2025
Location: 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8EW
Salary: £20k, plus Pension & Benefits
Duration: 3-month fixed-term contract
The Yard Creative is seeking a remarkable Brand Design Graduate to join our integrated team of curious creatives and strategists, collaborating with our clients to find their edge.
You will support the creative teams in delivering evidence-led, strategic brand, experience and experiential work for our clients, backed by solid skills in graphic, motion, and digital design. You will be filled with curiosity and creativity, with the ability to think differently and innovate beyond the norm. Your primary responsibility each week will be to lead the in-house creative for all marketing and social media content.
Alongside this, the graduate must be willing to work collaboratively with the team, supporting them on multiple projects from both big brands and entrepreneurs, as well as start-ups across various sectors, including lifestyle and consumer brands, FMCG, fintech, Property, and retail. You will work alongside an integrated team of creatives who specialise in research, strategy, brand, UX/UI, and 3D design throughout 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
Primary:
* Generating static and moving content for all social media and marketing activities, based on TYC projects, cultures, insights, and news
* Supporting the team in scheduling and posting of all social media and marketing activities
* Generating and posting completed project case studies on the website and in Keynote
* Building and posting monthly newsletters
* Secondary:
* 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 taking notes
* Time management
Specific skills required for the role:
* Proficient Apple Mac user
* Proficient with MS Office
* Excellent user of Adobe Creative Cloud
* Excellent use of animation, video and digital software and tools (e.g. After Effects)
* Excellent use of digital, UX/UI design software and tools (e.g. Figma)
* Proficient with WordPress and CMS design
* Experience with Mailchimp newsletter software
* Excellent idea and concept generation abilities
* Great sketching and illustration skills
* Confidence in expressing ideas/presentation 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
* Curious mind, can-do attitude, diligent with good time-keeping
About TYC
Strategic design for brands, experiences and places.
The Yard Creative is an award-winning evidential design agency based in Marylebone, London. We craft supercharged strategies to create brave brands, immersive experiences and memorable places for established brands, SMEs, organisations and place-makers, redefining what’s possible.
We've spent 18 years refining our approach, and we truly cherish the long-term partnerships we establish with our clients. By embracing our shared values, our curiosity fuels our drive to understand brands, people, and cultures, uncovering shared meanings that lead us to those ‘aha!’ moments that transform them into strategic advantages for our clients.
Breaking new ground relies on trust and transparency. Our integrity means we do the right thing for our people and projects, even when no one is watching. Authentic relationships lead to the boldest creative realisations.
True differentiation comes from leaving comfort zones and side-stepping conventions. Our courage to be forever curious and open-minded uncovers new possibilities that disrupt category expectations.
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 value honesty and transparency, sharing ideas and working as a team to achieve a sustainable and healthy work-life balance. 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 working 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.
Qualifications:
• 2:1 or higher Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Branding or Digital Design.