BYU-Idaho Graphic Design Alumni

KT Tape (kttape.com) is looking for a graphic designer with some modest web design skills as well.

Here is the information about the job. If you are interested please contact Reed Quinn, his information is below. Not sure if you will need to be in Utah for the job, but if you think you have the skills, go for it.

About us
Our products are used by professional athletes, Olympians, and recreational athlete’s that enable them to play harder, avoid injury, and recover faster. Athletes from every major sports use our products when playing on national TV in major sporting events such as the Super Bowl, US Open, & March Madness, or when simply running with their friends in the morning. We sell our products at over 1300 locations nationwide including Sports Authority, Dicks Sporting Goods, Big 5 and in over 30 countries world-wide. We are building the next great sporting goods brand- this is a ground level opportunity to be our “Carolyn Davidson” and help develop a brand that will become a household name.

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BTHtwo is a branding, packaging, and identity design firm that has been in business in Orem for the last 10 years. We are currently looking to hire an entry level designer. All applicants must be proficient with the Adobe Creative Suite programs (Flash experience a big plus). Pay level will be dependent on experience and skill set. Please send samples of your work or a PDF portfolio to klarson@bth2.com

Full-time Graphic Designer needed in Idaho Falls

In-House designer for McNeil Development (Taylor Crossing, Elim Valley, Pointe Perry, WaterStone Park). Responsible for all design aspects of the company.

Obviously need a good grasp of Design software (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop). Preferred preference will be given to someone with Flash and/or HTML knowledge, After Effects or an aptitude to learn new software. Photography skills and IT knowledge also a plus. Rarely, travel to St. George to assist in the Elim Valley project is required.

This position is Salaried - Negotiable, and includes benefits: 401k, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance. Paid sick/vacation time and paid holidays.

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Yellowstone Partners

The company has offices in Idaho Falls and Salt Lake City. It sounds like a great opportunity. -Scott

I own a wealth management company with offices in Idaho Falls and Salt Lake City. We are looking for a graphic designer for a full time position right away. I would be willing to consider someone who could be an intern until they graduated as well with full time position. We will provide the computers and printers as we have already purchased everything. The individual who we would want to hire needs to have good flash programming skills and be able to eventually head up our marketing and branding department. They could also work eventually out of our Salt Lake office. We are a growing office and we want to leverage the skills of someone with these talents to continue to give us a competitive edge over our competitors.

Dave Hansen

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This is from John Fitch:

I have a contact at a high-end small web shop in SLC that asked if I knew anyone looking for a full-time gig. This is more of an entry-level position currently, but all applicants are welcome. This would be for a web designer. If they know how to do CSS and light javascript, that would be a huge plus. Even bigger would be a working knowledge of Actionscript 3 and good with flash.

If you are interested, send them my way (jdfcreative@gmail.com)… They would need to send me a portfolio sample and personal URL.

This would likely be contract work to start, and they prefer the candidate to work in-house on location. Whomever is interested should be willing to work in SLC. If the candidate does well, this very well could be a full-time job opportunity very quickly.

Completing my BFA project has been an incredible experience. I was been able to challenge myself and in return grow and learn new things.

I started thinking about what I wanted to do for my BFA project in the summer before I took my first semester BFA class. I had been making sock creatures all summer and wanted to brand them. I wanted to create a whole store for them and other creative things I had made. After I went to my first semester BFA class I changed the project to informing the general public about good design. Then I read Elder Uchtdorf’s talk “Happiness, Your Heritage.” After reading the talk I knew I wanted to focus my project more on creating and why we do it. A couple days after reading that talk I had an art seminar class with Erik Adams. He came to my BFA class and I was able to talk to him about my project. He said instead of focusing my project on what I create, focus it on what others create and get as many people involved in your project as possible. It took me awhile to get over my idea of having my project about me, but I’m so glad that I listened to what Erik had to say. From there the concept for my project was set. I then started to create a list of people that were different ages and created different things. By this time I entered into my second semester BFA class. I started to interview people. The interviews took anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. I would ask then questions about what they do or create and why they do it. My husband Daniel would come with me and photograph during the interview. He would photograph them creating something or photograph projects they were working on or had already done. This part of the project lasted several weeks. During that time I started to think about the format of the book I was going to be putting this information in. As I completed an interview I then had to write up the interview and edit through the pictures Daniel had taken. Then I would flow the text and photos into the book. From there it was a long process and editing, designing, printing mock ups for critique, taking the feedback and adjusting and finessing the project.

The idea for displaying my project was something that came to me the more I worked on my book. I was looking through Martha Stewart’s website and came across a photograph of several empty frames that were all different sizes and shapes that were painting in an analogous color scheme. I feel in love with that idea. I didn’t want to put up foam core boards in the gallery, which is want most graphic designers seemed to do. It is a gallery for art and I wanted the project to fit in the gallery. So, Daniel and I spent a week going to the thrifts stores picking up picture frames that were different sizes and shapes. The oval ones seemed to be the hardest ones to find. We then spent the weekend sanding, priming, and painting the frames. Since I was displaying a book for my main project I needed something to set it on. I didn’t want to use the stands they provided in the gallery. A friend gave me the idea of having an environment of a creative setting that would have a desk and supplies to create things. I bought the desk and wanted to have things on the desk to have it feel like a creative environment. I ended up not putting supplies or too many other things on the desk just so that the book would be the focal point.

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Our very own Muffin has an Etsy site. If you are looking for handmade books and cards, look her up.

Who else has an Etsy Shop or other online outlet for your creative artifacts. I am really curious what this market is like. Please share your experiences and suggestions for others who may be interested.