Inside Otago Community Newspaper - Graphic Artist/Design and I.T Co-Ordinator

Duties

  • Design all adverts and prepare a proof for client to sign.
  • Design page layouts and typesetting ready for printing co-ordinating with editor to ensure space. Both in Adobe PageMaker and CorelDraw.
  • Editing of older adverts and converting to newer digital format, as Inside Otago was the first newspaper in the region to go fully digital.
  • Producing newsletters, eNews, booklets, price lists, flyers in CorelDraw.
  • Working with both CMYK and RGB images, manipulation of images to produce require advert idea.
  • Formatting of files and converting to PDF ready for pre-press and printing.
  • Build, design and maintain company website, having the stories and articles online (again one of the first newspapers to do this) in a similar layout to the printed newspaper.
  • Answering phones and customer liaison, email queries and quotes.
  • Aspects of business investigation and marketing & problem solving.