Indie Record Label Seeks Creative and Motivated Web Design/Visual Branding Intern
Grape Juice Records is an indie/folk/alternative/rock label in Chicago that helps artists reach their target audiences through creative marketing, planning, and execution. We’re kids that started a record label when we wanted to release our own music. Now we’re grown ups (almost!) with a major distribution deal and a roster of artists that will be doubling this year. We’ve got to do some virtual face lifting for all the new fans.
Our web presence is vast, however, almost all of our sites need some design help, some more than others (here’s one that got started and never finished http://store.grapejuicerecords.com/). We’d like to overhaul our visual branding into a more cohesive, consistent and visually appealing package. We’ll be choosing a new brand personality based on our company’s goals and your ideas. After bouncing ideas around we’ll work with you to bring it to life through design. We want you to be a part of our team.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to build your portfolio, proving that you can work on a theme, expand it and contract it for each use, and implement the design on the web. Done right, this could get you a lot of freelance work in the future.
Most of our presence is on sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bandcamp, Blogger and BigCartel (sites that use editable templates). We also have a website (www.grapejuicerecords.com) which is partially Flash and partially XHTML (I think). Depending on your proficiency and your personal goals for your internship and portfolio, an overhaul of this site is a distinct possibility. We’ll also need to amp up some of the functionality of our sites, integrating them where possible, adding things like mailing list sign-ups, links to social networking sites, embedding good-looking music players, and integrating Google analytics where possible.
Skills:
We are looking for someone who is:
• Creative, smart, self-motivated, eager to innovate
• A design student emphasizing in web design, visual branding, and/or graphic design.
• Proficient in HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, or Flash, Java, Javascript, Dreamweaver or are a very fast learner of web design languages. If you’re proficient in some and only have some experience with others that might work.
• Capable of seeing a project through to the end. No shenanigans, leaving me with a half finished site (see above)
• A music lover. We are a record label after all…
• Able to work 10-20 hours per week for three months – UNPAID, for school credit: This is negotiable. We have a number of non-monetary ways we could reward you and depending on the workload and time spent a stipend of some very small kind might be talked about. We’ll work with you to get credit hours for school and we’ll be happy to write you a glowing recommendation letter.
How to apply:
If GJR sounds like the place you want to try your hand at designing for a client, building your resume and portfolio, fulfilling that pesky internship credit, and feeling a sense of camaraderie and accomplishment send your resume and a cover letter with a link to sample work and why you’d like to work on this project to Kate at grapejuicerecords dot com. The line should read: Internship Applicant, Fall 2010.
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