graphic design internship
Are you looking for where to get a graphic design internship? This should be an exciting opportunity for a graphic design graduate or an individual with relevant experience wanting to make a career change in the nonprofit and development sectors and as a Graphic design Internship.
The intern will work closely with the Lead Graphic Designer and the Head of Programs Development to help design in any organization.
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1. Junior creative graphic designer
Craftcycle Limited
Lekki Peninsula, Lagos, Nigeria
Junior Creative Graphic Designer works with several designers in the team to effectively translate and create graphic designs, fully based on the stated requirements. Designs should be of high quality, imaginative and modern, describing and promoting the organization’s brand, products, and services, while meeting customer expectations.
The Junior Creative Graphic Designer must have great attention to detail, be highly creative, be aware of the latest trends, have less supervision, and have good timekeeping skills.
Candidates must live in the axis of Lagos Island
Interested applicants should send CV to apply@craftycle.com with the subject “Junior Creative Graphic Designer”
Job type: Full time
2. Graphic designer/digital marketing
BOOK24.ng
Lekki Peninsula, Lagos, Nigeria
Graphic designer and social media director
Salary: 60 thousand monthly.
Location: Lekki II Peninsula, Lagos
Job Type: Onsite (Full Time)
Please Note: Applicants must be residents in Lekki, Ajah, and the surrounding area.
Job description:
As a Graphic Designer and Director of Social Media, you will be responsible for the design, production, and coordination of marketing and communication materials, including digital newsletters, brochures, promotional logos, and special projects. You are responsible for developing content and setting up campaigns for the organization.
You offer Book24 the necessary guidance to enhance our online presence with clear goals such as: “more website traffic” or “optimize brand recognition”. You are also responsible for developing the business through social advertising and Google.
Duties and Responsibilities: Graphic Design:
- Design, produce and coordinate marketing communications materials, including digital newsletters, flyers, promotional logos, and special projects.
- Coordinating and/or producing lightweight Copywrite for advertising and communication materials.
- Produce simple digital how-to videos as needed.
- Coordinate with all departments of the company to ensure effectiveness and encourage the adoption of social media strategies that are relevant to the company culture and the company’s products and services.
- Monitor social media campaigns, daily activities, and lead generation.
- Manage the presence on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, and several similar community sites and promote them to generate more audience.
- Monitor effective benchmarks to measure the effectiveness of social media programs and analyze, assess and report on campaign effectiveness to maximize results.
Qualifications and experience:
- Minimum BSC/HND/OND with 2 years experience in graphic design and digital marketing.
- Experience using social media analytics tools and the ability to adapt marketing techniques based on findings.
- Creative skills to contribute new and innovative ideas
- Ability to create modern social media and digital marketing content
- Experience with advertising structures including Facebook, Twitter, and Google Ads.
Eligible candidates should send their CV to book24global@gmail.com
Job type: Full time
3. Graphic design Internship
Socialander Lagos Digital Agency, Nigeria
We are looking for a new graphic designer to strengthen our team. You design a wide variety of things in digital and offline media. To succeed in this position, you are somewhat confident, capable of delivering outstanding creative ideas, and special attention to detail.
Responsibilities graphic designer:
- Conceptual planning through the study of relevant information and materials.
- Illustrate concepts by making examples of artistic arrangement, size, font size, and style and submitting them for approval.
- Prepare the finished artwork using the necessary equipment and software.
- Coordination with external agencies, art services, web designers, marketing, graphics, and collaborators as needed.
- Contribute to team efforts by completing tasks as needed.
- Communicate with clients about layout and design.
- Create a variety of images and layouts for product illustrations, organizational logos, and websites using software such as Photoshop.
- Review the final layouts and suggest improvements if needed.
Graphic Designer Requirements:
- B.S.C in graphic design or related fields.
- Experience as a graphic designer or related field.
- Demonstrated graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
- Proficiency with necessary desktop publishing tools such as Photoshop, InDesign Quark, and Illustrator.
- A strong eye for visual makeup.
- Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
- Understand marketing, manufacturing, website design, business identification, product packaging, advertising, and multimedia design.
- Experience with computer-aided design.
Apply at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2893601394?showGuestApplyModal=true
Job type: Full time
4. Graphic designer
Nigeria curve
Curva Digital is a multidisciplinary digital agency based in London with a presence in Lagos and Kenya. We help our customers build and drive their digital businesses by developing cutting-edge products, services, and digital campaigns that evoke emotion, have personality, and drive results.
We wake up in the morning because we love what we do, bringing impactful digital products to life while helping established brands and startups in emerging markets wreak havoc on the world. We believe that in general work shouldn’t feel like work, work should be fun, and we make the projects we work on a passion rather than a chore.
As a member of our development team, you shape our brand identity and the visual communication we use to tell our story. In addition to working with our client portfolio, such as leading startup accelerators and consultancies, and being responsible for delivering a wide variety of visible design tasks.
Job description
- We are looking for a Graphic Designer to strengthen our design team. The individual will play a role in building the next phase of our design capabilities and will work closely with members of our multidisciplinary team to find answers to briefings. As a Graphic Designer, your position will include the following responsibilities:
- You will work closely with the CEO to help our clients create unique marketing materials for physical print and various online platforms.
- You will be asked to design applicable design work in multiple formats (paid and organic social, display ads, email templates, landing pages, infographics, motion, and static)
- Extensive use of industry software including Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides, Google Docs, and Canva
- Strategies and identification of the best way for designers to achieve the desired result
- Deliver design work on time and within a desired budget/time frame
- Collaborate with creative colleagues; product designs and content authors.
- Create creative direction for the company (Curve) and brand guidelines
- Perform retouching and image manipulation
- Communicate with customers about layout and design
- View final layouts and suggest improvements if needed
- UI Design: Your role will also include end-user interface design support and design, end-user interface design elements/resources, and working with our product designers to bring designs to life.
- Serving as a Master of Presentations – helping build a growing business by designing pitch decks, discovery decks, credibility decks, and more with our clients’ strategic teams.
About you
You will demonstrate a strong sense of brand recognition and have a portfolio that demonstrates an excellent understanding of digital design work.
Confidence in delivering digital assets in multiple formats is an important skill to take with you. A good understanding of Adobe CC (After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Indesign) would be helpful, as would some experience working with Figma and/or Sketch.
You must have the following attributes:
- Software: Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and all other UX and design tools.
- Art Direction: You will be asked to manage creative tasks from start to finish, guiding a multi-functional creative team in conceiving, designing, and executing visual material.
- Strategic thinking: We don’t plan for you to write strategic reports, but what we do is an initial understanding or appreciation of the “big picture”.
- Articulate: Good communication skills are critical, both when working with internal teams and customer teams
- Passionate: We love that people have a real drive and passion for their specialty and we need to see that passion translate into brilliant work. Do you blog? You’ve done some freelance or design work yourself – we’d love to see you!
- ‘We can do it’ attitude: We work with some big clients, but also with tight deadlines – as an agency it is very important that we all come together and have a good attitude to do an excellent job.
- Willing to learn: You will be able to learn a lot from experienced people, so we want the individual to take the initiative and be willing to learn as they progress.
- Attention to detail: Designing high-quality artwork of innovative and commercial works, taking into account brand guidelines.
- Beginner: Proactive, motivated, able to work alone and develop relationships by working as an integral part of a team. You stay fully informed of new online trends, technologies, and developments in digital and web design and you discover the possibilities to use them.
- Design eyes: have a very good understanding of typography, color theory, and proven application in creating brand guidelines
Good to have:
- Motion Graphics: Experience in delivering digital assets in various formats along with motion is of great value. As well as some experience with the use of motion design and video.
- What’s in it for you?: Flexible working: We like to think along about different ways of working, depending on your needs
- Growth Opportunity: We look forward to enabling all our employees to grow in their roles in a way that interests and encourages them.
- Support: You have weekly 1-on-1 meetings with the Head of Design who monitors your personal development and helps you learn the tricks of the trade
How to apply:
To be considered for the position, please send your CV, portfolio, and personal statement to Dami Famuyibo, Founder and Director of Curve: dami@curvadigital.co.uk
Job type: Full time
5. Graphic designer and illustrator
Sparkle Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria
Sign up on the company’s website
About Designer:
As our resident visual designer, your job is to help us deliver messages and information through illustrations, images, and patterns. You will design aesthetically pleasing images and illustrations that capture our brand and appeal to our customers. You will be part of our design team, but you will also work closely with other departments in addition to our marketing, people culture, and product teams.
Because Sparkle is a challenging new financial institution, you have a new brand to play with. We are looking for someone with a thirst for new ideas, creative talent, and a strong ability to translate requirements into design. If you can communicate well and work together as part of a team, we would love to meet you.
What can you do every day?
Collaboration: You work in the design team, but you need to collaborate with other groups to understand design requirements, preferences, and expectations in line with our brand design language. You also use feedback from other team members to improve your designs, such as color schemes and tone.
Design: That’s a good idea. You spend much of your time designing original images with unique colors, shapes, and typography, taking into account their use across multiple channels and devices, web, mobile, and print. You’ll be designing original images with unique colors, shapes, and typographic fonts.
Your designs include, but are not limited to, marketing and communications materials, social media posters, banners, flyers, illustrations, interfaces, logos, and more.
Research: We are a digital financial institution, so you want to spend time understanding the financial space and gaining knowledge about available technologies, user interactions, current design trends, and design best practices.
Apply if you:
- Have some design experience: Ideally, you should have 1-2 years of visual design experience for more than one channel. You must be proficient in using design tools, including Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, etc.). Experience in using design Affinity, Adobe after Effects, and Figma is an advantage.
- You love working with people: If you are a standout colleague who enjoys working with functional teams, this role is for you.
- You have a fairly good understanding of visual design patterns, typography, iconography, and colors.
This feature is not for you if:
You are not open to constructive comments. You work with multiple teams with different requirements. To feel comfortable in this role, you need to be open to regular feedback on your design.
Job type: Full time
6. Intern Graphic Design (Remote Internship)
Brainnest Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Register on the organization’s website
FUNCTION: Intern Graphic Design
LOCATION: remote
HOURS: Part-time (10-20h/week)
About Brainiest
The partner management and training company is based in Bremen, Germany. We are a successful company offering management consulting and personalized contract services to assist agencies in various industries with business management issues. Brainiest leads and manages complex projects and initiatives.
We start from scratch when a network of professionals, Ph.D. holders, and highly qualified personnel bring their years of practical and academic experience to a corporate table to form a concrete project on which the company is designed. Since 2020, we offer a combination of experience, skill, and dedication, leveraging our deep industry experience, along with using analytical rigor to achieve exceptional business results.
We are proud to provide world-class consulting and training services to a wide range of industries around the world. A well-equipped team, advanced tools, and current methodologies are some of the things we use effectively to offer our clients what makes them the best in their field.
Our team is looking for a graphic design intern to join them in the coming weeks. This role is ideal for an aspiring graphic design specialist looking to work on mission-critical tasks and gain relevant work experience.
Your profile
- Strong communication skills with the ability to discuss issues with a wide range of individuals and groups
- Ability to produce content on time, with an interest in detail and an emphasis on discovery and release to an audience
- A well-prepared team player with the ability to multitask, act personally, and think creatively
- Familiarity with Microsoft and Zoom packages
- Willingness to learn and develop graphic design skills
- Competitive and proactive attitude
- Knowledge of English
- You’ll learn how to create stronger, clearer, and more engaging designs by understanding how, why, and when to format and assemble documents
- Create color palettes, manage colors, or troubleshoot in tools like Photoshop or Illustrator
- Use the most important tools from the designer arsenal, typography, and color to attract attention and create the right atmosphere in your documents
- Use the key features of Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and various platforms to showcase your work, share your creative workflow, and increase your overall online presence
- Warp and distort layers, work with text, create shapes, draw and edit vector paths with the Pen tool, create animations, apply paint effects, save and share libraries, and work with artboards
- Start with the basic design software, which includes InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Use key composition principles in your projects
- Be more creative individuals and as part of a team
- Apply your new skills to the real thing
At Brainnest, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, country of origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran. We try to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Seniority Level: Internship
Job type: Full time
Function: Design, art/creative, and information technology
Sectors: Retail art supplies
7. Graphic designer at Umba
Umba
Graphic designer
Umba Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Register on the organization’s website
About Umba
- Our goal is to make banking across Africa free, empower our customers to manage their financial lives, and ensure financial services are cheaper, more efficient, and more widely available.
- We are looking for a unique opportunity to revolutionize financial services in Africa – lowering costs and increasing the reach of banking while serving the next billion mobile customers who may be online.
- We are passionate about customer service and deliver mobile banking with a remarkable user experience. We use advanced machine learning to enable us to build smart, lower-cost financial products for emerging markets where credit scores are not widely available.
- Based in San Francisco, and growing rapidly in Mexico, Nigeria and Kenya-Umba launched in the Nigerian market and growing rapidly in other markets. We offer our customers a wide range of digital banking products through Android and iOS apps and we have a tradition of exceeding customer expectations which have led to explosive growth.
- We are looking for exceptional talent, but also for people who share our vision, motivation, and sense of mission. Join us in building Africa’s largest neobank.
Job description
We are looking for a senior graphic designer with brand experience. You will work with product and marketing designers to build out the Umba brand. You’ll help the team create in-app assets, social media content, website content, and marketing videos.
Responsibilities
- Create a visual portion of brand suggestions together with product and marketing designers
- Translate creative strategy, brand, and messages into a visual roadmap
- Create unified marketing and in-app content with brand guidelines
- Work with multiple teams to produce any additional visuals likely needed
- Participate in regular design reviews with product/marketing designers and weekly observation sessions with cross-functional stakeholders.
Skills and Qualifications
- Ability to balance more than one stakeholder in the business
- Strong knowledge of how graphic design is used in the app vs. in marketing
- Examples of sleek and ambitious visual designs
- Strong technical skills and proven proficiency in using graphic design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, etc.)
- Portfolio website to showcase your work
- Basic knowledge of UX design tools (Figma, Sketch, or similar tools)
- Basics of HTML or Webflow
- Work experience with Lottie
- Work status
- Valid Work Permit for Nigeria
Umba is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All certified candidates are eligible for employment regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or other legally protected means. In addition, we consider certified candidates, regardless of their criminal record, according to the legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Seniority Level: Entry Level
Type of work: Full time
Role: Design, art/creative, and information technology
Sectors: Bank
8. Graphic designer at PropertyPro.ng
PropertyPro.ng
Graphic designer at PropertyPro.ng
PropertyPro.ng Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Register on the organization’s website
Company: PropertyPro.ng
Job description
PropertyPro.ng (formerly ToLet.com. is a platform of the WorldClass Real Estate Center, driven by the consolidation of ToLet.com.ng and Jumia House Nigeria (formerly Lamudi), acquired by ToLet.com.ng in October 2017. from move reflects the organization’s broader commitment and experience to drive the innovations needed to shape the future of true research solutions.
We are recruiting to fill the vacancy below
Position: Graphic Designer
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Type of work: full time
Job description
The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating visual concepts that communicate the objectives of the company, as well as informing and inspiring customers and the public.
Main responsibilities
- Advise management on best techniques that can be applied to reach different audiences through different channels
- Prepare copy for newsletters, flyers, and campaigns
- Create images to convey ideas
- Develop visual or audio graphics and images for product illustrations, logos, and websites
- Research and authorship of articles for use in social media and various media
- Social Media Platform Management
- Work with a wide variety of media and use graphic design software
- Thinking creatively and developing new design concepts, images, and layouts
- Collaborate with the marketing team and community manager on campaign development
- Provides brand design skills and expertise in the design, development, planning, and production of all brand promotional documents (i.e. concepts that generate interest that will result in a shared spirit in the industry)
- Ensuring that all designs and manufacturing are of the highest professional quality (consistency in our tone of voice, the appearance of our designs, etc.)
- Develop innovative concepts in line with the brand’s proposal for advertising, internal and external publications, product posters and flyers, digital and electronic media
- Create designs for all platforms
Educational qualification and experience:
- Candidates must have a B.Sc or HND in Graphic Design Training or a related discipline
- 4-6 years in a similar role
- Knowledge of writing and search engine optimization is a plus
Skills and Abilities
- PROVEN EXPERIENCE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH A ROBUST PORTFOLIO
- KNOWLEDGE OF LEADING DESIGN SOFTWARE
- Ability to fulfill customer requests
- Superior listening, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to deal with stressful situations appropriately
- In-depth knowledge of the MS Office suite
- Must be able to collect management reports and correspondence
- Good knowledge of administrative and office processes
- Good stress and time management skills
- Personal qualities
- Love art and color
- Sharp vision
- creative and driven
- Very organized and detailed
- Can handle rejection
- Loves to talk and socialize
- Has a high energy level
- Work in the office
Seniority Level: Entry Level
Job type: Full time
Function: Design, art/creative, and information technology
Sectors: Marketing Services, Non-Residential Real Estate Leasing, and Real Estate Leasing
9. Graphic Designer at SIMS Nigeria Limited
SIMS Nigeria Ltd
Graphic Designer at SIMS Nigeria Limited
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Job description
At SIMS Nigeria Limited, we specialize in distributing and selling top brand electronic products including SAMSUNG, ROYAL, PARSUN, and POWERMATIC. Our company started in 1987 and since then we have managed to punch a hole for ourselves in the home appliance market in Nigeria. We operate some of the branches that span most of the geopolitical zones in Nigeria; in major cities including Lagos, Port Harcourt, Onitsha, Enugu, Kano, and Abuja.
We are recruiting to fill the vacancy below
Position: Graphic Designer
Location: Lagos Nigeria
Job type: full time
Responsibilities
- Create graphics and designs with design software
- Study project overviews and determine the requirements
- Formulate concepts, ideas, logos, and various designs for promotions
- View the final layout and suggest improvements if necessary
- Design and implement strategic media plans that align with overall business goals and objectives
- Collaborate with various individuals from the creative and marketing teams to produce content
- Responsible for earning creative materials in the country
- Responsible for moving internal and facade creatives for the company
- Contacts with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, etc.
Requirements
- Minimum of a first degree or HND only in Fine and Applied Arts.
- A stint in an advertising or marketing communications agency (not less than three years after NYSC).
- Must have great communication skills.
- Must be able to work under pressure, resourceful, reserved with a high level of professionalism.
- Proven experience in UX/UI designer, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, etc.
- Must have demonstrable experience in communications, graphics, and media solutions.
- Passionate about designing user-centric experiences
- Previous experience in similar roles in the media/electronics industry will be an added advantage.
Salary
N150,000 – N200,000 monthly.
Seniority Level: Entry Level
Job type: Full time
Function: Design, art/creative, and information technology
Sectors: Manufacturing, financial services, and retail
10. raphic Designer at Lifemate Nigeria Limited
Lifemate Nigeria Limited
Graphic Designer at Lifemate Nigeria Limited
Lifemate Nigeria Limited Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Job description
Lifemate Nigeria Limited is a multinational professional furniture company with 14 outlets in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Warri and with essential skills in various types of furniture such as Kitchen Cabinets, Wardrobes, Bedroom Furniture, Hotel, Office Furniture, Dining Room Sets, Light Fixtures, Jacuzzi, Steam Box, showers, outdoor wicker products, interior decoration, etc.
We are recruiting to fill the vacancy below
Position: Graphic Designer
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full time
Work summary
The Graphic Designer will conceptualize visuals based on requirements, create standout and brand images for a variety of things in digital and offline media.
Responsibility
- Concepts from planning to the study of applicable information and materials.
- Illustrate the concepts by designing and submitting examples of art arrangement, size, font size, and style for approval.
- Prepare the finished artwork by working on the necessary equipment and software.
- Coordination with external agencies, art services, web designers, marketing, printers, and colleagues is important.
- Contribute to the team’s efforts by performing activities as needed.
- Work with copywriters and creative director to create the final design
- Creating a wide variety of images and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and websites using software such as Photoshop.
- Ensuring final images and layouts are visually appealing and proprietary
Requirements
- Full training in graphic design or related fields.
- 2 – 3 years of experience as a graphic designer or in similar fields.
- Proficiency with required desktop publishing tools including Photoshop, CorelDraw, and Illustrator.
- Insight into marketing, production, web design, corporate identity, product packaging, advertising, and multimedia design.
- Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
Application end date
February 9, 2022.
Seniority Level: Entry Level
Job type: Full time
Function: Design, art/creative, and information technology
Sectors: Marketing services, manufacture, and manufacture of furniture and home furnishings
Conclusion
Applying for an internship is a great advantage for entry-level graphic designers which can be of great advantage to you in the future. Please share this post and subscribe for you to be receiving daily graphics design tips
