Junior Graphic Designer - Tagbrands - Lebanon

The Junior Graphic Designer must have the ability to interpret core project objectives/requirements and develop creative concepts. Produce solutions to provide high quality design materials for publishing, web and multimedia products.

- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for corporate projects including company brochures, and any other collateral or advertising material, as assigned.
- Responsible for assisting in conceptualizing, designing and the completion of collateral material for specials, as assigned.
- In addition to creative responsibilities, the designer will be the primary manager of graphic vendors, such as printers, photographers.
- This position also requires administrative duties, such as archiving print material, handling logo requests, developing and maintaining filing system, etc
- Responsible for the concept, design and delivery of a wide range of graphic design solutions
- Develop creative concepts through discussions and planning sessions with team members.​
- Identify new trends in design and form for delivery of materials.​
- Elevate the creative thinking across the organization

Requirements
- Demonstrating creativity and generating new and original ideas
- Expertise in graphical design programs such as InDesign, Quark Xpress, FreeHand, Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D Studio, Acrobat, Director, Dreamweaver or Flash
- Strong English and Arabic spoken and written skills. French is a plus.
- Working knowledge of computer programs to accomplish work (Microsoft Office & powerpoint)
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Hands on, professional style
- Self organized: organizing one's own work efficiently by planning objectives and scheduling time and activities, dedicating available time and energy availed to main issues and critical problems
- Behavioral flexibility: modifying one's behavior to reach a predetermined goal when problems or opportunities arise
- Stress tolerant: perform effectively under time pressure and in the face of disappointment, adversity and opposition
- Energetic: maintaining a high level of energy, extremely active for prolonged periods of time when the job requires this. Working hard, possessing staying power

hr@tagbrands.com

Web Designers/Art Directors - Born Interactive - Lebanon

- Degree in Graphic Design from a major university
- Good command of main design, web design and imaging software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
- Web and multimedia design experience is a plus: HTML, Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS), Flash, etc.
- Creative, organized, motivated, good communication skills, attention to details, responsible, ability to work and coordinate with team members.
- English/Arabic (French is a plus)

jobs@borninteractive.com

how to add a border around objects embedded into blog posts (such as a google map or a youtube / vimeo video)

If the images on your blog have borders you may wish to have them around other visual material as well, so as to achieve design consistency. Google maps are one such bothersome element, I think. In order to place a border around a google map, look for the embedded code in your post and add what is highlighted in black:

<iframe style="border:Xpx solid #yourhexcode" frameborder="0" width="X" height="X" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="yourmapurl" width="X"></iframe>

And just tried the same snippet, placed in exactly the same location on a youtube video. Yayy! Same exact result!

<iframe style="border:8px solid #111111" width="500" height="410" src="hhttp://www.youtube.com/embed/rHZUPJji6w8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And vimeo too! With this one, although the aspect ratio is the same (3 x 4) as the youtube video, I had to tweak the overall box size a bit since the player configuration seems to be slightly different. But no biggie, done in a second!

<iframe style="border:8px solid #111111" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/3699840?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="500" height="380" frameborder="0"></iframe>

(Note: One thing to bear in mind is that if you want a border do not forget to size the embedded output accordingly. As an example, the post width on this site is 515 pixels, however I set the video files at 500 pixels in order to accommodate the 8 pixel border around them).

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blogspot stuff: adding a background color to the date header of the awesome.inc template

Find this code in the HTML editor (widgets expanded, of course):

.main-inner .widget h2.date-header span {
  font: $(date.font);
  display: block;
  padding: .5em 15px;
  border-left: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
  border-right: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
}

Then replace that one with this one:
.main-inner .widget h2.date-header span {
  font: $(date.font);
  padding: 1px;
  margin-left: 14px;
  border-left: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
  border-right: $(date.border.size) solid $(date.border.color);
  background: #yourhexcode
}

As you can see I have removed one line and also changed the padding. I also added a left margin in order to align stuff, your values may again be quite different than these. These are things that looked good with my particular design, you may want to go with other values or even keep the block display altogether, in which case the colored area will stretch across the width of the post as a bar.

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Web Producers - Born Interactive - Lebanon

You will be part of our web production team, forming a liaison between designers and developers in the cycle of websites production. The job involves building web pages and maintaining websites, using industry standard tools. You will be creating and updating HTML code, utilizing CSS formatting and layout techniques, editing and preparing web images, using CMS systems to manage/update websites and optimizing code for better performance.

- University Degree in Computer Science, Multimedia or any equivalent degree.
- Good knowledge of HTML and CSS.
- Good knowledge of Adobe Dreamweaver.
- Knowledge of JavaScript.
- Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop for image editing.
- Flash knowledge is a plus
- Organized, motivated, good communication skills, attention to details, responsible, good team playe
- 6 months - 1 year experience
- English/Arabic (French is a plus)

jobs@borninteractive.com

Flash Designers / Animators / Developers - Born Interactive - Lebanon

- Good command of Adobe Flash design and authoring tool.
- Familiar with vector-based design tools.
- Familiar with ActionScript on Flash.
- Professional experience is a plus.
- Organized, motivated, good communication skills, attention to details, responsible, ability to work and coordinate with team members.
- English/Arabic (French is a plus)

jobs@borninteractive.com

Visual Designer - FreshBooks - Toronto

We’re looking for a Visual Designer with a focus on campaign-oriented design that also has strong illustration abilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for the FreshBooks experience as it relates to marketing to a wide variety of audiences. You can create and adapt creative assets (web pages, email campaigns, banner ads, print and event collaterals) to suit multiple audiences and approaches. You will be working extremely closely with our Art Director and Marketing Managers to deliver on visual assets to support their targeted campaigns.

As a Visual Designer at FreshBooks your key responsibilities will include:
- Visual Design: Creating mockups of digital, print and event marketing assets (banner ads, postcards, t-shirts etc.) and whatever else we throw at you!
- Design Implementation: Turning your mockups into finished CSS/HTML webpages or following through on print production to be able to deliver the experience you’ve designed.
- Illustration: You should be able to create original illustrations that follow visual guidelines.

Desired Skills and Experience
You will be able to contribute more effectively if you have the following background:
- Degree in Visual Design from a College or University (York/Sheridan, OCAD, Humber, UofT, Ryerson, etc,.)
- A creative passion for illustration, and visual design principles.

Lastly, the number of years experience doesn’t matter, but specific experience in campaign-based visual design is a requirement:

A design job at FreshBooks isn’t really the type of design job you would get elsewhere in Toronto. We’re not a bank, or an insurance company, or a workaholic-driven advertising agency. We’re a software-as-a-service company who sets people up to be themselves, and bring themselves to their work, yet be a part of something bigger than themselves. At FreshBooks, you will be encouraged to grow as an individual, and will have the support of an incredibly talented Design and Development team who has been shaping the world of online invoicing for the past several years.

Send CV and portfolio along with samples of the following to careers@freshbooks.com
- Work that demonstrate a campaign you created that spanned multiple media (print, web etc...)
- Work that contains original illustration.