Graphic Designer Wanted

VE web design is seeking a graphic designer to join a firm that is passionately pursuing every opportunity to develop and service websites for businesses and organizations. VE was established in 2006 and currently has 7 team members. Computer experience needed: Photoshop CS3+, typing speed: 70WPM, 40+ per week, $10/hr ($1.50/hr raise after first 6 months). Resumes to Nathan Cruse, 804 E. Eastwood shopping Center, Suite 9, Mahomet IL, 61853.

Paid Internship Opportunity

Seeking a skilled graphic design student to re-design a radio station web site. Portfolio must show examples of visually sophisticated samples. Demonstrated ability to develop web sites from conception to publishing desired. Excellent communication skills and ability to work without supervision preferred. Applicants must maintain a minimum enrollment of 6 credit hours. Please contact Paul Young at <pyoung.parkland.edu@gmail.com> for an interview.

Lab Monitors Wanted

Responsible graphic design students wanted for paid lab monitor positions. You are comfortable with Macintosh OSX and graphic design software. You also enjoy helping other students. No prior experience necessary, but preference will be given to GDS students with 2 or more completed classes. Students must maintain a minimum enrollment of 6 credit hours, and have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better. Please fill out an application at the Career Center (A175). Also check this page for available hours.

Part-time Paid Position

A local real estate company is looking for a student graphic designer to help us with some brochures and business material. This will be a paid position and will be on a part time/per job basis. Students who would like some real world experience to help build their portfolio should contact Andrew Guadalajara at 309 645 1420 or aguadal2@gmail.com.

Paid Summer Internship

Spinlight is looking for another Spintern candidate for this summer, but somewhat scaled down. Responsibilities would primarily focus on mock up skills—so for that we are specifically looking for someone with good hand skills/exceptional craft, and that has had at least a year of graphic design classes. Hours would be as needed from week to week and is still paid. Please send resume to kerri@spinlight.com.

Designer Needed Immediately

Research team at the UIUC School of Social Work needs an animation suitable for use at the beginning of a power point to illustrate key research findings. Payment will be one time flat fee starting at $30. Price negotiable after consultation. Questions Welcome. Please contact Program Manager, Samantha Hack-Ritzo, at <shack2@illinois.edu> or 217-244-5224.

Summer Internship Opportunity

BookGlutton.com (located in downtown Urbana) has a few internship opportunities available. Their our main product is an online reading platform that allows people to chat and share annotations inside books. It’s a great opportunity for students to learn about web design and development for static and social networking areas of web design, as well as learn a bit about the cutting edge of publishing. There are 3 positions available (12-16 hours a week): (1) PRODUCTION DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation, and HTML editing. We’ll be producing some books in XHTML/EPUB (also known as Adobe Digital Editions format) so this is an opportunity to see how publishing’s new format is structured and manipulated. Activities: edit and create online books by tweaking xhtml and css, some graphics production, site editing and management of the social network. Skills: xml/html, familiarity with PHP preferred but not required. (2) DIGITAL BOOK DESIGNER/GRAPHIC DESIGNER: An opportunity to design elements for an unusual aspect of web design: ebooks. Beyond designing digital book elements  students also have exposure to processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation. Some ad design or print collateral may be possible depending on student interests. Activities: design elements of online books, particularly dropcaps and header treatments and work on digital book layout. Lend a hand designing ads for clients or HTML newsletters as needed. Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator and familiarity with web design standards. InDesign experience preferred but not required. (3) CSS/FRONTEND DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, site migration and internal code management; also an opportunity to work on a social networking site and get involved in new feature development. Studentswill get a chance  to be a key figure in the deployment ofbookglutton’s mobile site: a good chance to get iphone and gphone experience. Activities: make regular site updates and bug fixes as needed, and play a big role in testing and deploying the mobile versions of the site. If you’ve got facebook experience or are interested we would consider assigning some of the FB app development to you. Skills: must be extremely good with CSS and HTML, somewhat familiar with javascript. To apply for these internship, contact: Travis Alber <travis.alber@gmail.com>. To receive credit at Parkland for the internship, contact Paul Young <pyoung@parkland.edu>

CUDO Job Board

CUDO just announced that their job board is up and running: thecudo.org/job-board

WILL Public Media Seeks Web Designer for Creation of Two Youth Media Websites

WILL Public Media seeks an experienced web designer to take the lead in developing two project-based websites for our work with youth. This is a grant-funded, hourly position. No benefits. $35/hour gross pay. We are looking for someone who is motivated, creative, excellent communicator and is inspired by the subject matter of the project. The first website, The Youth Media Workshop, is a work in progress. View it at: will.illinois.edu/youthmediaworkshop. We have a redesign in mind and have started to create the new site. We are looking for you to help us finish the redesign and edit, digitize, encode and upload all content from five years of youth projects to the new site, including: photos, raw audio interviews, finished audio and video programs, and more. Redesign of website and all media must be uploaded by June 1, 2009. The second website has yet to be designed. The project is called: Kids of Color Kickin’ It At Kickapoo State Park. This project is a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Danville, Prairie Rivers Network, Kickapoo State Park, Danville Public Library and the Department of Advertising at the College of Media. Website must be completed by October 1, 2009. As part of our work together, you must empower WILL staff and the youth we work with to update content on this website. These are concurrent projects. The successful candidate will work closely on site architecture, design and protocol with two WILL staff members: Jack Brighton (jackb@illinois.edu), WILL Internet Director, and Kimberlie Kranich (kranich@illinois.edu), Co-Director of the Youth Media Workshop at WILL and Director of Community Engagement. Qualifications: The successful web designer candidate will have excellent communications skills and a customer service orientation. We are looking for someone with the following skills: Demonstrated expertise in standards-based, accessible website development using xhtml, css, and JavaScript. Good visual sensibilities and skills in graphic design, and in using software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Fireworks. Experience developing sites within a website content management system. Expertise in site planning and information architecture. Experience using media production tools and software to digitize, edit, encode and upload audio, video and photos. Experience integrating social media tools including YouTube, Flikr, Google maps, tagging, user-generated content, and moderated discussions into the website. Please send your resume with references, a cover letter expressing why you are interested in working with us, and urls of websites you have designed to: Kimberlie Kranich, Director of Community Engagement, kranich@illinois.edu with the subject line: “WILL Web Designer Position.” For a copy of the basic elements to be included in the Youth Media Workshop web redesign and the Kids of Color Kickin’ It At Kickapoo State Park website and for a draft project timeline, please email Kimberlie Kranich, kranich@illinois.edu. For full consideration, application materials must be received by February 28th, 2009. Interviews begin the week of March 2, 2009.

Freelance Ad Design

Notfrosh Marketing is a new marketing and advertising company that concentrates on placing affordable indoor advertisements in local establishments. Our affordable rates and effective advertising method make us a perfect way for local and national clients to reach their customers. Notfrosh Marketing is seeking young graphic designers to help create advertisements. Notfrosh Marketing is looking for college students (preferably graphic design students) that are efficient in Photoshop and Illustrator, to help design advertisements. All the work we offer is done through contracts, meaning you get paid per job. We will be looking to work with several artists, the more that apply the better. The ideal candidate is creative, imaginative, and can have work done on or before a deadline. This is a great way to build a professional portfolio and make some extra cash! Please feel free to contact me to find out more: Jared Stanton <jstanton@notfroshmarketing.com> or (973) 534 – 3724.