Tumblr
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Designer
at Tumblr
NYC
We’re looking for a nice designer with outstanding illustration
skills to join our small creative team. You’ll work with every
department in the company on art, animations, and identities for pretty
much everything we do.
Ideal candidates will be ready to
work in a range of styles across various media, from printed matter to
app assets. Experience collaborating with a close-knit team of designers
is a must. Be prepared to own whole projects, which means organizing
your work in a way anyone can use it.
Please include:
- A link to your portfolio that highlights relevant design work.
- Links to any other work that you’re proud of.
- 3-5 sentences about why you’d like to design for Tumblr.
What you’ll do:
- Create illustrations and animations for product launches, app features, ads, promotional merch, and who-knows-what-else.
- Participate in each step of the project: ideation, Iteration, production, and follow-up.
- Work in Tumblr’s existing in-house illustration style, and make it even better.
- Communicate with the team, sharing in-progress work and teaming up with writers and product designers as needed.
- Present and pitch to teams outside of Creative, like Marketing and Engineering.
- Manage your own projects, working in JIRA and Slack.
- Communicate with vendors like printers and event venues.
- Export various file types for production.
- Hang out with David Karp, CEO and renaissance man.
What we’re looking for:
- 2 years of experience.
- Excellent illustration skills, both on paper and in vector form.
- The ability to depict complex concepts clearly and without clichés.
- A master of most graphics programs, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch.
- Experience with motion graphics, especially GIFs.
- The ability to accept and manage feedback.
- The ability to work on tight deadlines.
- Niceness, humility, and a fine sense of humor. This is important!
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by Banksy
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“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t
die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others
define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s
their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there
primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious
Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose
something that you are.”― Eckhart Tolle
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by John Baldessari
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Moist
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Tracey Emin in Confidence interview
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Olympia, 1863 by Edouard Manet
Though Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) sparked controversy in 1863, his Olympia stirred an even bigger uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. Conservatives condemned the work as “immoral” and “vulgar.”[1] Journalist Antonin Proust later recalled, “If the canvas of the Olympia was not destroyed, it is only because of the precautions that were taken by the administration.” The critics and the public condemned the work alike. Even Émile Zola was reduced to disingenuously commenting on the work’s formal qualities rather than acknowledging the subject matter, “You wanted a nude, and you chose Olympia, the first that came along”.[9] He paid tribute to Manet’s honesty, however, “When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.”[10]