Artistic Director, Editorial & Motion

ToldUntold; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

ToldUntold in London is seeking a senior/editorial designer to shape the visual identity of each program—from typography to motion language. You will art-direct articles, carousels and podcast artwork, and build templates the studio uses.

You’ll own motion across the platform, guiding the rhythm of the feed and collaborating with the content team to plan a week of content. This full-time role is based in our London office, with three days on-site, and English as the working language.

Qualifications

• Portfolio strong in editorial design and motion with typography doing the heavy lifting.
• Years of art direction in luxury, media or a studio whose work you would gladly show us.
• Strong command of layout and motion tools with precision in details maisons notice.
• Ability to design systems that others can execute well, and to know when to break them.

Responsibilities

• Design the visual identity of each program: type, layout, colour, motion language.
• Art-direct articles, carousels and podcast artwork, and build the templates the studio uses.
• Own motion design across the platform, including how a carousel moves in the feed.
• Shape the rhythm of the feed with the content team and define a week of content.
• Review outgoing work and uphold the standard across everything editorial the studio ships.

Skills

Editorial design

Motion design

Typography

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

After Effects

Job description

About the role

A large part of what runs on the platform is not film. Articles, carousels, podcast artwork, motion design, and the typography and layout that give each program its own identity in the feed. This role owns that side of the studio's craft, and the visual standard it is held to. When a program has a strong identity, you can feel it in the rhythm of the feed before you read a word.

You design the identity of each program with the maison it belongs to, art-direct the editorial formats, and set the typographic and motion standards the studio works to. The work has to sit comfortably next to a maison's own campaigns, and it has to read on a phone held in one hand in a busy store.

What you will do

• Design the visual identity of each program: type, layout, colour, motion language.
• Art-direct articles, carousels and podcast artwork, and build the templates the studio produces from.
• Own motion design across the platform, down to the way a carousel moves in the feed.
• Shape the rhythm of the feed with the content team: what a week of a program looks and feels like.
• Review outgoing work, and hold the standard across everything editorial the studio ships.

What we look for

• A portfolio strong in editorial design and motion, with typography doing the heavy lifting.
• Years of art direction in luxury, media or a studio whose work you would gladly show us.
• Command of the tools of layout and motion, and precision in the details maisons notice.
• The judgement to design systems other people can execute well, and to know when to break them yourself.
• An eye for how design behaves at phone size, in seconds, in the middle of a working day.

Practicalities

Full-time, based in our London office, with three days a week there as the default. The working language is English. Start as soon as you can.