Call for designer: Aberdeen Art Gallery Trail for children aged 8+
We’re looking for a graphic designer to create a new printed museum trail that encourages school pupils aged 8-11 years to discover what’s the Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums collection.
You will be an experienced freelance designer whose style is fun, bold and eye-catching. You will have examples of your design work for children. You will be familiar with working to a brief, consulting with clients, thinking creatively and meeting deadlines.
The Project
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (AAGM) have been working with Hanover Street Primary School on Workforce for the Future, a partnership programme with Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS).
Over the past school term, pupils have researched unusual objects from the AAGM collection to create content for a ‘Weird Trail’. This resource is a new museum guide that will be shared with other pupils in the region to use in school and when visiting Aberdeen Art Gallery.
This is an exciting opportunity for a designer to take content created by our young people and turn it into a fun and funky gallery trail that will be used by school pupils.
Final Output
The Weird Trail will be printed as a full colour, 2-sided A2/A3 that will fold up into a smaller format. The style and look of the trail needs to appeal to children between 8-11 years old, so the design needs to be colourful and creative. Images of chosen gallery objects and accompanying text will be provided by the key AAGM learning officer. Printing of the final outcome will be arranged by AAGM and paid for by MGS.
Where?
Working remotely with supportive online meetings with the assigned AAGM Learning Officer Karen Jamieson.
Guide timeline (approximation)
- Online meeting with learning officer to discuss timeline, content and format: week beginning Monday 31 July
- First proof of design submitted to learning officer: Monday 21 August
- Notes from proof check 1 to designer: Friday 1 September
- Notes from proof check 2 to designer: Friday 15 September
- Final design submitted to printer: Friday 29 September
Fee
The fee is up to £1500, depending on experience, for the completed design in a variety of formats including a compressed version for publishing on our website. Please submit a proposed fee in your email.
How to apply
Please email us with your CV, covering letter and examples of your work with reference to the target age range. Email Karen Jamieson, Formal & Informal Learning Officer at KarJamieson@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Deadline
5pm, Tuesday 25 July 2023. We will let you know by Friday 28 July.
About Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums. The city’s collection has grown over centuries, and has been shared with the public since 1885, first through the Aberdeen Art Gallery, then the wider museums and archives services at Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives, Maritime Museum, Treasure Hub, Provost Skene’s House and Tolbooth Museum. Exploring, re-interpreting and using the collection can help all of us explore our past, share our present and inspire our future, showing the best of Aberdeen to the world.
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums is a public sector organisation and forms part of Aberdeen City Council. The team also provide care of and access to the Aberdeenshire Council’s accumulated archive and strives to achieve the same ambitions for that collection as it does on behalf of Aberdeen City Council.
Our purpose is to share the city’s collection in engaging ways.
To do this we need to care for and understand the collection, create opportunities for people to access the collection and venues, promote and enhance what's on offer, become more resilient and sustainable, and ensure we are relevant and accessible to all.
Our vision is to be a place for people to explore Aberdeen’s identity and culture, and its connections to the world - making Aberdeen a better place to live, work and visit.
