Graphic and Industrial Designer

Job description / Role

Genius Loci is an exciting, dynamic and well-established international design firm, specialized in wayfinding strategy and signage design. For nearly 2 decades we have continued to instil excellence in wayfinding strategy and push the boundaries in signage design across a multitude of project typologies including resorts, hotels, residential, retail, medical facilities, masterplans and mixed-use developments.

We are recruiting for Mid to Senior designer for wayfinding, signage and environmental graphics.

Roles and responsibilities:
- Conceptualise and develop signage systems for various types of urban and resort projects
- Integrate with the extended design team, understand design reports from various disciplines, read plans, review presentations and appreciate the destination aesthetic and space function.
- Understand the project design, develop user analysis, develop wayfinding strategy principles and design reports.
- Work with our extended design team in creating signage systems for hotels, resorts, retail environments, master planned mixed-use developments, amongst others and visualise these in sketches, mood images, 3D rendering (e.g. Rhino and KeyShot) and Adobe illustrations
- Create high-quality, self-explanatory design presentations and reports including design thinking, illustrations, materials, sizes and specifications for environmental graphics, signage concepts and systems.
- Develop and roll-out extensive wayfinding strategy, visual graphic standard guides and signage guideline reports
- Co-ordinate with the extended design team of architects, landscapers and interior designers etc

Salary:
AED 10,000 to 25,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.
Additional benefits: Medical insurance, travel opportunities, flexible leave

Requirements

If you’re collaborative and detail oriented with a clean aesthetic to your work, have a strong passion for strategy, typography, graphic and industrial design this may be the right fit for you.
Software skills required include Adobe (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and 3D (Rhino, Keyshot)

Successful candidates:
- Capabilities in graphic design and 3D design with an understanding of typography, graphics, environments and materials.
- Will have the ability to work independently and coordinate with local and international teams.
- Have a passion for design, detail and the software they are required to work in, with a clean aesthetic.
- Have a strong understanding of colour, layouts, grids, typography and iconography design.
- Collaborate with an international design team.
- Experience with signage on large scale projects is a benefit.
- Collaborate with design and technical teams.
- Be able to read architectural plans and understand interior design documents.
- Understand fabrication materials, design and graphic design layouts.
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in reputable graphic design, branding studio or other design firm

Qualifications - Degree in any of these fields:
- Graphic Design
- Fine Arts
- Wayfinding and environmental graphics
- Industrial design
- Interior Architecture

About the Company

Genius Loci Signage and Wayfinding (GLSW) is a wayfinding strategy and signage design firm headquartered in Dubai UAE, operating worldwide. By understanding people, places and perceptions of a space, we define strategies and designs that are specific, relevant and impressive.