· Meet with clients to determine the scope of a project.
- Coordinate with clients via email, phone or in person for a project or projected project.
· Advise clients on strategies to reach a particular audience.
- Discuss with clients on how to best portray a specific message or campaign to specific sets of target audience through well thought-out, easy to understand and visually appealing graphics for posters, fliers, brochure or window display banners or exhibition display.
· Create images that identify a product or convey a message.
- Design and conceptualize original graphics that best convey a message to an intended group of people or target audience.
· Develop graphics for product illustrations, forms, souvenir booklets, books, annual reports, poster, brochures, fliers and banners.
· Select colors, images, text style or typography, and layout.
- Able to determine which color and type of font that suits best for certain kind of business.
· Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design.
- Able to effect change that conforms to what the client wants.
· Review and revise designs for errors before final printing or publishing them.
· Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as window displays, or company logos.
· Use variety of programs like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe In design and Adobe Acrobat to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
- Updated with the latest versions of computer programs that are key to timely and effective way of productions.
· Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts!
· Prepare rough sketches of material, discussing them with clients and making necessary changes.
- Presents dummy sample or sketches to clients before the start of actual commences.
· Maintain archive of images, photos, or previous work products.
· Prepare notes and instructions for workers who assemble and prepare final layouts for printing.
- Gives specific instructions when it comes to cutting and bindery.
· Conceptualize, design, create and place ads for newspaper.
- Ensure all final copy of ads is placed to newspaper for publishing in a timely manner.
· Operate and maintain digital printers such Xerox Versant 280 press, Roland Versacamm 540i, Roland Truevis printers.
- Troubleshoots any problem with the machine, ensure that size and color are correct.
· Does color separation for offset printing.
- Prepares CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, K stands for Black) separations for filming and turning it into plates.
· Receive camera-ready files from clients for checking of resolution of photos, overprinting of black text, bleeding (allowable space on the image for cutting) and size.
- When the customer says the file is camera-ready most of the time it is not on the printing side.
· Determines what is the most cost effective and fastest process of printing. Should it be printed by offset or digital process?
· Does design and print for car decals and car wraps.
- Determines if the design should be printed on vinyl stickers or cut out colored vinyl stickers only. Also determines strategy on how to effectively install the decals on cars. Check the measurement of final design before printing in Roland Versacamm print and cut machine.
· Sets up high-quality photo for canvas printing and fabricate it wooden frames.
· Design and print designs for commemorative ref magnets.
· Does costing of each project.
· Supervises social media posts.
OTHER DUTIES ASSIGNED:
· Does ads placement in newspaper for ACE, Joeten Enterprises and other affiliates.
· Coordinates and places order with suppliers from on-island and off-island suppliers or online stores like ebay and amazon
