Position: Full time
Salary: Massively dependent on portfolio and experience!
Location: Nottingham City Centre
Recruitment Agencies: NO, None, Zero, Lets say this again shall we - recruitment agencies go away!!!
Closing Date: When we have found the right person - so hurry up people! 

Even though everyone is shrinking at the moment - we are growing and so yet again are having to further expand our already exceptional team  - but literally only the best will do.

Alight is a multi disciplined Creative Design Agency that cover many things but specialise in Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design and Web Software Development.

First and foremost we are a design agency, so exceptional design is at the core of everything we deliver, but we are also a very technically capable bunch who build everything from scratch including our own CMS and E-commerce platforms - open source is for saps!

We have a gifted team of web developers to help breathe life into the amazing designs you will be creating, be clear we are not after a techy here - you are pure design through and through with a love of the web and digital. If you know some coding that's great too and we're sure that will come in useful.

We take only the best so you will need a portfolio full of stunning and beautiful work that should shows you have an extensive knowledge of User Experience (UX) and are a GUI god this all on top of just making things look amazing.

A good knowledge of SEO would be preferable, not delivering it, but knowing what works within sites to get the best results within the search, if not - this will be trained.

We do a lot of web but we also do a lot of branding and graphic design, so if your branding jedi and print master, then that will certainly add some gold stars.

We require minimum 3 years design agency experience working on large and small brands alike.

Ok I like it, what do I do...

If you don't like fun and can't crack a joke this ain't the place for you. However, if you have design flowing through you and want to step up, then either call us on 0845 009 8020 or email us at jobs@WeAreAlight.com

Whichever way you contact us be prepared to show us your portfolio site or at the very least send us a design portfolio PDF with links to work you have done.

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West Nottinghamshire College is one of the largest colleges in the East Midlands delivering courses from basic skills through to full degrees.

After a comprehensive tendering process, Alight were selected to complete some conceptual design work for the West Nott's College website.  

West Nott's have the ambitious aim of making their website the most innovate and creative in the sector. The visual design of the site is a key element to achieving this.  Due to the wide age range and experience of the prospective students at West Nott's College the site needs to be structured accordingly.

The request was to prepare some conceptual designs for a new look and feel to the College website that specifically targets their individual markets.  The designs needed to reflect a highly visual and creative site that's engaging dynamic and full of energy.

The creative team here at Alight completed a suite of conceptual designs which have been handed over to the internal design team at West Nottinghamshire College.

Alight is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Antony Smith as its new Creative Director.

Antony arrives with strong, well-rounded industry credentials, having worked in senior creative and design management roles, previously managing high profile projects and art directing design teams at several big name agencies including The Designers Republic.

Antony has delivered dynamic and commercially effective design solutions for branding and advertising campaigns on a national and global scale, he has created high profile identity work and integrated online and offline campaigns. His fifteen years experience is wide-ranging, working with a diverse portfolio of national and international clients such as Bentley Motors, Coca-Cola, Hasbro, HSBC and Yamaha, plus many other brands in the automotive, construction, education, financial, and public sectors, plus FMCG and leisure industries.

Alight MD Peter O’Brien said of the appointment "We are delighted Antony has joined the team. His hire marks a real statement of intent for Alight and our plans for progress as a full service design agency – he has a wealth of industry expertise that will be a real asset, strengthening our creative output, and giving us further opportunities to attract new business."

We are delighted to announce the launch of our shiny new website.

With the launch of this site we are making a statement not only about our awarding wining design, but also about how businesses can still spend wisely during these challenging economic conditions.

Businesses are realising they have to be bold and clever with their marketing activity; and with the launch of this new website, we are no exception to the rule.

The new website utilises informed and intelligent design concepts along with sophisticated web development techniques and is a winning formula we can’t wait to share with our clients. 

Please feel free to comment on our site and if you want your own project delivered by an award winning design agency, give us a call and come in for a coffee.

We just love an opportunity to get our creative juices flowing, so when funk / soul group Dumhi approached us and asked us if we'd art direct the music video for the 'All Children Need' song and comeup with a brand and create them a sweet accessible website, we just couldn't wait to get started!

Dumhi had the idea for the All Children Need single which came about as way to raise funds for the Children in Need annual appeal.  Dumhi needed a forum to raise awareness of the single and their mission to raise money for this worthy cause and happily Alight were able to offer the solution's they needed!

It was an early start at our Nottingham studio where we held the green screen video shoot and with 20 children ruining around - excited parents and grandparents on hand to watch and keep the children entertained, it was all go. The band arrived with all their equipment - then it was lights, camera action!  It certainly called for pizza all round at the end of a long but rewarding day!!!

With our creative director on hand to oversee the shoot, postproduction Specialist James Curran plus the talents of James Knott for photography - it was a winning formula resulting in a poignant and intriguing video.

The finished product has been shown on many music channels including MTV and been selling on iTunes raising money for the BBC's Children in Need appeal.
To see for yourself visit www.allchildrenneed.com