Chief Designer

The Chief designer is accountable to the deputy editor and the editor.

The Chief Designer must ensure that the newspaper is designed in a way that is both easy to read and conforms with the publication design style set out as well as making sure it is packaged correctly and written to a CD for the printers on time.

The Chief Designer should be proficient in both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Indesign and must have some experience drawing and interpreting page dummies.

Committments to the newspaper will be attending one meeting a week and then running a dummy drawing session every second week. In addition to this the Chief Designer runs the paste-up weekend. This entails driving the layout process by interacting with the Pictures Editor, the Chief and Deputy sub editors and the section editors to get the newspaper laid out in a timely and efficient manner.

This position is excellent experience as it pushes you to hone your skills and knowledge of, not only the computer programs used but also newspaper design conventions and interacting with people on a professional level.