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Design the Future of Art and Retail at the Prestigious V&A Museum
Overview
Salary
£33764
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
Join the esteemed Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), a world-renowned institution celebrating art, design, and performance, as we prepare for the exciting launch of the V&A East Museum in 2025. With a history that spans over 5,000 years of human creativity, the V&A is the custodian of the UK's national collections and a treasure trove for researchers and art aficionados alike. Our mission is to be the global leader in our field, sharing the wonder of the designed world with a broad audience.
- Design and develop surface graphics for V&A's own-brand retail products.
- Contribute to product design for the forthcoming V&A East Museum.
- Work on diverse projects including packaging and signage.
- Create products for multiple V&A retail sites.
- Demonstrated experience in surface pattern design for products.
- Proven ability to apply designs to various items like paper products, clothing, and packaging.
- Permanent full-time position based in South Kensington.
Enjoy a suite of benefits including a generous pension scheme, flexible working, free access to exhibitions, discounts, and a commitment to EDI as a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. We ensure an inclusive recruitment process and support for all employees.
The Role Join us as a Designer where you will design and develop surface graphics for own-brand V&A retail products. The role sits within the Commercial Department, based at South Kensington. For the first 12 months this role will focus on product design development, packaging, and signage for V&A East Museum opening in 2025. This role will then continue to develop product for all V&A retail sites - South Kensington, Young V&A as well as V&A East Museum. You will have demonstrable experience working with surface pattern for product and be able to illustrate previous examples of where you have translated designs onto paper products, clothing, and packaging. This is a full time, permanent position based at South Kensington.
The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
ED&I at The V&A At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications: The Guaranteed Interview Scheme – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities; Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
