About the Role
Landor, Global Design Studio, is looking for a talented Senior Designer to join their multi-skilled and multicultural APAC studio team. The role focuses on creating strategically driven design solutions for corporate brands with a strong emphasis on typography, corporate identity, brand systems, and packaging visuals. The candidate will explore and conceptualize design ideas, develop typography-led visual languages, and lead projects from concept through execution. The role supports APAC and Europe regions, requiring potential early starts to collaborate across time zones.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Design Directors and the wider creative team to develop strategically led, typography-focused design solutions.
- Explore creative directions where type, fonts, lettering, and composition play a central role in defining the brand's visual language.
- Translate brand strategy and creative briefs into distinctive typographic concepts and visual identities.
- Develop and refine typographic systems, including typeface selection, hierarchy, layouts, grids, spacing, and applications across brand touchpoints.
- Work extensively across corporate identity and packaging, creating strong typography-led visual systems that are distinctive, scalable, and commercially relevant.
- Push beyond conventional type treatments to explore new and expressive ways of using typography within branding.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of how typography works alongside imagery, illustration, colour, and graphic elements to create a cohesive brand world.
- Contribute to design development from initial concept through to final artwork, maintaining a high level of craft and attention to detail.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and, where relevant, clients, communicating design rationale and typographic thinking with clarity.
Requirements
- Previous experience in a similar role within a branding or design agency, with strong exposure to corporate branding, packaging, and visual identity.
- A typography-led portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding and application of type across branding and packaging projects.
- Deep knowledge and appreciation of typefaces, fonts, typography, lettering, hierarchy, grids, kerning, spacing, and composition.
- A strong ability to select, manipulate, and develop typography to create distinctive brand expressions and visual systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
- Strong understanding of how typography can work across different formats, from corporate identities and packaging to digital and physical brand applications.
- Strong conceptual thinking, with the ability to translate strategy into distinctive, well-crafted typographic solutions.
- A high level of attention to detail and craft, particularly in typography and layout.
- A strong and relevant branding portfolio, with recent examples where typography plays a meaningful role in the creative idea and overall visual identity.
- A genuine passion for typography and an interest in evolving how type can be used to build distinctive brands.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- Hybrid approach with teams in the office around four days a week.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to a culture of respect where everyone belongs and can progress in their careers.
