UK Based Graphic Designer for pop-up brand

Graphic Designer - Rave Experience

We are looking for a UK-based graphic designer to develop the visual language for a new immersive experience exploring the story, culture and legacy of rave.

The project brings together artists working across film, animation, dance, music, sound and immersive technology. We are now looking for a designer who can create a strong and distinctive visual identity for the public-facing side of the experience.

We want something that understands and acknowledges the incredible visual culture that surrounded rave, but doesn't simply recreate the past.

The Commission

Working collaboratively with our creative team, the designer will develop the visual identity for the project and create:

5 social media designs for Instagram and Facebook to promote the experience
A 4-page website design skin/reference which our team will use to build the website
An A4 show poster
A venue sign which clearly identifies where the experience is taking place

We also want the commission to leave us with a simple visual reference that allows our team to sustain and develop the identity beyond the initial commission.

This should include:

Primary brand colour
Supporting and accent colours, including HEX/RGB references
Primary typeface/font
Supporting or accent typeface
Guidance on how colour and typography should work together
Any core graphic devices, treatments or visual rules developed for the project
What We're Looking For

Rave had a visual culture as well as a musical one - flyers, typography, DIY graphics, photocopying, fluorescent colour, club identities, record sleeves, protest graphics and underground publishing.

We want a designer who understands that history and can respond to it creatively.

But we don't want a pastiche of 1989.

Our experience looks at the story of rave culture and its legacy. The visual identity therefore needs to reference where the movement came from while feeling exciting, contemporary and relevant to audiences today.

We're particularly interested in designers with a strong individual visual style who are comfortable collaborating with artists working across different disciplines.

How to Apply

Please send us:

A link to your portfolio or examples of relevant work
A short introduction to you and your practice
Your availability for the project
A short response of no more than 150 words answering:
How would you create a visual language for rave culture that acknowledges its history without simply reproducing rave nostalgia?

We're particularly interested in how you might take the energy, experimentation and DIY spirit of rave and translate that into a visual identity for a contemporary immersive experience and a new generation of audiences.

We are not asking for finished concepts or speculative design work as part of your application.

We want to understand how you think.