Senior Packaging Artwork & Retouching Specialist

Critical Playground LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Butterfly Cannon in central London is seeking an Artworker with solid retouching skills to join our Artwork & Production team. This is a hands-on role: you''ll turn our designers'' work into accurate, print-ready and screen-ready artwork across packaging and brand materials, and make sure every image is retouched to a high standard and colour-accurate before it leaves the studio.

Reporting to the Production Director, you''ll take artwork briefs from our Design Directors and ensure files meet

Qualifications

• Proven artworking experience in a design agency, artwork studio or prepress environment, ideally including some packaging work.
• Ability to lead on retouching and image comping as a craft in its own right: creating hero pack shots, building composites from photography, CGI and stock, and refining images to a polished, believable finish
• Solid working knowledge of litho, flexo, digital and gravure print, and how to set up artwork for each
• Good understanding of colour management for print and screen
• Close attention to detail and a methodical approach to checking your work

Responsibilities

• Turn approved designs into accurate print-ready artwork for labels, cartons, shippers, pouches, POS and other print collateral
• Build artwork to printer specifications, including substrates, colour separations, spot colours, foils, embossing, varnishes, cutter guides and trapping etc
• Prepare digital and screen assets, such as retailer pack shots, social, web and digital display, to each platform's sizes, formats and specs
• Retouch and prepare images to a high standard for print and screen, using colour-managed workflows
• Adapt master artwork across range extensions, pack formats, languages and regulatory copy
• Preflight and output final files, and check proofs against artwork
• Follow and maintain our file naming, version control and archiving standards

Skills

Artworking experience

Retouching leadership

Adobe Creative Suite

Print knowledge

Color management

Detail-oriented

Multitasking

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

InDesign

Acrobat Pro

Job description

Butterfly Cannon in central London is seeking an Artworker with solid retouching skills to join our Artwork & Production team. This is a hands-on role: you''ll turn our designers'' work into accurate, print-ready and screen-ready artwork across packaging and brand materials, and make sure every image is retouched to a high standard and colour-accurate before it leaves the studio.

Reporting to the Production Director, you''ll take artwork briefs from our Design Directors and ensure files meet