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About BugTracking

Kindly use the form on the right possible project bug submissions. This will enable us to quickly prioritise possible projects bugs into order according to severity.

We are looking for a motivated team player with a portfolio of work to match. One that reflects experience and relevant skill as a junior (up to mid-level) designer and illustrator.

Primary area of expertise:

• Brainstorming, conceptualising and solving design challenges in client projects with art director.
• A through-rough understanding of graphic-design and marketing principals
• Executing quick precise, print ready material across various mediums from briefs
• Digitally Retouching of Photography/ Images
• Prepare work for repro (design; checking colour proofs; checking dye-lines on press)
• Conceptualising and illustrating info-graphics

Secondary area of expertise:

• Interest in latest print finishes papers/ materials and technologies
• Interest in expanding into UI development for newsletters, websites and digital apps
• Working understanding of social media channels

 Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification from reputable institution
• Experience working with copywriters and art/design directors in design advertising, promotion, interactive media spaces
• Excellent knowledge of vector graphics, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF (Acrobat & Distiller) (CS5+)
• Excellent knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Creating templates etc)
• Strong organization, negotiation, and problem-solving skills

Personal Skills/Attributes

• Extremely result and deadline driven
• Pro-active self starter that is attentive to detail
• Energetic, motivated, organised
• Communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Desire to grow and develop in design field
• Can work in a team and responds well to instruction

Particulars

• Remuneration: market related 
• Province: Western Cape 
• City: Cape Town – CBD
• Job level: junior/ mid-weight 
• Own transport required 
• Term: permanent/ contract

Are you the designer we are after or do you know a design specialist who would like to work and grow in our dynamic studio? Head over to our contact form and setup a meeting today. 

Please note: We require a relevant portfolio (PDF plus web links) and detailed CV (PDF) to start the first round (of three) in the interview process.

We are looking for a motivated team player with a portfolio of work to match. One that reflects experience and relevant skill as a junior (up to mid-level) developer.

Primary area of expertise:

• Strong understanding of UI design and best practices
• Hand coding of WC3 standard compliant, well structured, HTML and CSS
• Design and development of:
• i) Front-end templates, for websites,
• ii) targeted email campaigns for various email clients on various platforms.

Secondary area of expertise:

• Excellent knowledge Photoshop (CS5), illustrator and Dreamweaver
• Development of, and integration with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery)
• Development of, and integration with PHP frameworks
• Working with MySQL databases

 Advantageous

• Interest in expanding development into mobile applications
• Discipline relevant diploma or tertiary qualification
• Work-flow is Mac based, and rooted in Adobe CS products
• Working understanding of social media channels
• Working knowledge of popular CMS frameworks (Drupal and WordPress)

Personal Skills/Attributes

• Extremely result and deadline driven
• End user orientated/ focused (knowledge of best usability practices)
• Pro-active self starter that is attentive to detail
• Energetic, motivated, organised
• Communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Desire to grow and develop in development field
• Can work in a team and responds well to instruction

Particulars

• Remuneration: market related 
• Province: Western Cape 
• City: Cape Town – CBD
• Job level: junior/ mid-weight 
• Own transport required 
• Term: permanent/ contract

Are you the developer we are after or do you know a front-end specialist who would like to work and grow in our dynamic studio? Head over to our contact form and setup a meeting today. 

Please note: We require a relevant portfolio (PDF plus web links) and detailed CV (PDF) to start the first round (of three) in the interview process.

CASE STUDY

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We have been so busy implementing great products that we have placed our own communication on the back-burner. 
SO this week we are happy to announce our new site, built form the ground up. It also lays the foundation for our re-shuffled workflow and support structure  that will be rolling out over the next couple of months (tic-tock).  

So what is in the box? 

We focused on creating a site with the newest technology. After weighing in all the possible newest techs we landed on creating a dynamic standards-focused HTML5 spec site. We realised that HTML5 is a spec still being written but loved the fact that we are now able to use new technologies to communicate our ideas today. We make strong use of CSS3 styles and jQuery that gracefully degrade for older browsers.

The backbone of our site runs on our own flavour of dynamic CMS powered by PHP. We constantly are on the look out for the latest and greatest web technologies to test and put into practice. Our portfolio features a custom plugin of our own making to dynamically sort and animate our individual portfolio pieces. We really enjoy using Google technologies and use Google’s font hosting services to spice up our typography (with speed).

All of which is adorned by freshly cut designer templates. We tried to keep the narrative to a minimum, while still making the intension of our studio clear and keep the main focus on our portfolio of case-studies. 

So where to from here? 

We would inch you toward some of our new case studies, featuring custom CMS based sites for Reuben’s, Hallucinating Pluto, Cosmesis; specialist print solutions for Entrawood, and fun illustrations for YAKU, Warrior Faith Gear and Fairbridge wines. 

Consider the shoemaker’s son, soled or at least flip-flopped, as we take a look forward to shortened update intervals.