Seeking a Brand Designer
Position: Brand Designer
Contract: Consultancy
Location: Remote
The Role
We are looking for a consultant to design a logo and brand guidelines for our knowledge center for digital rights defenders, which will contain a variety of resources and information focused on different aspects of digital rights. The knowledge center will also house materials produced by Team CommUNITY staff, focused on issues like mental health, intro to digital rights, and notes from our various meetups and gatherings.
We are looking for a person that has amazing design skills, and is passionate about helping the digital rights community! We want to work with an individual with an innovative sense of aesthetics, who pushes the boundaries of visual culture, and is experimental in approach. The designer will be responsible for crafting the brand, look and feel of the center.
Expected deliverables:
Design an identity for a new virtual knowledge center
Create visual identities (logos, colors, fonts)
What we need (required qualifications):
Experience in graphic design, preferably working with nonprofits, grassroots organizations, open source communities, and international communities.
Strong portfolio of conceptual work that demonstrates deep expertise in developing strong brands.
Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale.
Able to work independently, prioritize accordingly, and iterate quickly.
Strong communication skills
Expertise in design software like Photoshop and Illustrator
What we would like (preferred qualifications):
You have an appreciation for the role that freedom of expression, human rights, or digital rights plays in our daily lives.
Experience working with multilingual and multicultural communities, especially activists, human rights defenders, or frontline communities.
Strong plus if you are familiar with wikis.
A degree in Design, Interactive Design, Visual Studies, or other design-related field is certainly an advantage but not critical.
To apply:
We are not looking for a long cover letter. Send us a short description of your background, approach to design, and expected rate. Include samples or links to your work that you are most proud/excited about. Send your materials to ops@digitalrights.community with the subject line “Brand Designer Consultant”.
We will be picking 3 designers to complete a paid design assignment and from this pool, we will select the designer that will produce the brand guidelines book for us.
Timeline:
Deadline for submission: November 22, 2021
Start date of contract: January 2022
About Team CommUNITY & ARTICLE 19
Team CommUNITY is a program of ARTICLE 19 that works to advance community building strategies; pioneer diversity and inclusion tools; and organize innovative events for the digital rights and internet freedom communities. We are organizers of the annual Internet Freedom Festival and other virtual/online events. We are a distributed team, servicing a community that is unbound by location or geographies.
Established in 1987, ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. Our mission is to promote and defend the universal human rights of freedom of expression and information around the world, through international advocacy, campaigns, legal analysis, and regional and national projects. ARTICLE 19 operates internationally: although our international secretariat is based in London, we have regional teams based in the Americas, Asia, MENA, Europe, and Africa through an established network of offices and personnel.