Graphic Design Assistant

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

(This is a fixed-term contract position of 6-month with possibility for renewal subject to organisational needs and individual performance.)

You will be responsible for: • supporting exhibition and graphic designers to accomplish design tasks including but not limited to exhibition graphics designs, label designs, event or programming signages and building wayfinding; • supporting exhibition and graphic designers by preparing sufficient artwork files for productions; • supporting members in the team and other stakeholders to implement exhibition design planning standards, including but not limited to research, site recce, material sourcing and graphic installation preparations; • upholding and providing input to designers on organising and archiving exhibition and graphic materials; and • accomplishing other assigned design related tasks for exhibitions and museum. You should: • possess a recognised university degree, ideally in relevant fields such as communication design, architectural design, interior design, creative media, or equivalent; • have a strong interest in working professionally in the design field; • be a good team player, a good communicator and a highly organised person; • understand museum accessibility standards and the role in exhibition design plays to shape displays; • be proficient with required desktop design tools, including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Office, and other related software with demonstrable design skills with a strong portfolio; • preferably possess some relevant working experience (fresh graduates are welcome); and • have a good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin).

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before following date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

19-09-2024

Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.

All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.

For more information, please visit https://www.westkowloon.hk or contact:

Crystal Yu/+852 22000114

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