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Impact Narrative Media

$100 - $125/hr

The right designer for this role is someone who would rather design a magazine than design a deck ... Designers without editorial publication experience We read every application within two weeks. We ...

Boston Globe Media Partners

Editorial Designer

Boston, MA · On-site

$41 - $46.75/hr

This role is responsible for designing compelling features and layouts that elevate our ... At The Boston Globe, we are committed to independent, trustworthy journalism. Our design team plays ...

Boston Globe Media

Editorial Designer

Boston, MA · On-site

$41 - $46.75/hr

This role is responsible for designing compelling features and layouts that elevate our ... At The Boston Globe, we are committed to independent, trustworthy journalism. Our design team plays ...

Arena Magazine

Print Designer

Austin, TX · On-site

$60 - $80/hr

We're looking for a talented designer to work on the next 10,000 pages - and the digital interfaces ... magazine, working closely with the editorial team and our art director to make every magazine ...

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Editorial Designer

Impact Narrative Media

On-site

$100 - $125/hr

Other

Posted 6 days ago

Job description

Design publications, reports, and editorial sites that don't look like they came out of a nonprofit brand toolkit.

Studio

Type

Staff

Location

Compensation

$90k – $125k

§ 01 — The work

We are looking for a designer who knows what a good magazine looks like and why. You will design our publications, our clients' annual reports, our editorial sites, and the print pieces our editorial work ships into.

Most of our design work is editorial — type-led, photography-led, restrained, and built to be read. You will also touch the studio's own brand surfaces as needed, but the bulk of the work is real publications.

We are not a brand agency. We are a studio that publishes. The right designer for this role is someone who would rather design a magazine than design a deck.

§ 02 — What we look for

  • 01 Five-plus years in editorial design at a magazine, newspaper, publishing house, or comparable
  • 02 Strong type sense — defensible opinions about which faces work for body text and why
  • 03 Comfort designing across print and digital with equal craft
  • 04 Experience working with editors and writers on real publications
  • 05 A portfolio that includes at least one extended editorial system (a magazine, a recurring series, a book)

§ 03 — What we don't

We try to be specific about who this role is not for.

  • Brand designers whose strongest work is logos and decks
  • Designers without editorial publication experience

We read every application within two weeks. We respond to every applicant whose work we read, even briefly. We do not use ATS keyword filters.

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