Creative Business Internship: Creative Assistant at Different Gravy Studio CIC

Main Duties

As our intern, your role would be to help us create visuals and content derived from our brand and archive that help us to communicate our work.

As we transition from photography-based work into design and publishing, our ideal intern would be able to assist with designing visual assets to use across our online platforms, books and merch.

Using illustration, design, image research and archiving, you will help us to develop the way we communicate Different Gravy as a brand visually.

What we are looking for

This role would suit someone with existing skills in graphic design, illustration and branding, and wants to explore this within a creative studio. Our ideal candidate is someone who shares our passion for documenting culture and finding new ways to explore this visually.

If you have experience in designing merch, posters and books, and enjoy playfully exploring typography and illustration, we feel this role would be perfect for you.

Additionally, if you are passionate about photography and film, there could be scope to get involved with shoots, as well as archiving some of our existing work.

About us

Different Gravy is a creative studio that focuses on celebrating working class culture and making the creative arts more accessible to underserved communities. We have three branches to our business:

Workshops: We often work with charities and youth organisations to deliver creative workshops to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Projects: As photographers we work with individuals and institutions like the Barbican or the ICA to deliver bespoke photographic assignments and short films that help create legacy and celebrate culture.

Publishing: This year we will be launching our publishing arm of the company where we will be creating photo books from various artists and a Different Gravy zine consisting of the work we have made in collaboration with others as well as commissioning people to share their work.

https://differentgravy.studio/

https://www.instagram.com/differentgravy.studio

What will the internship offer the student and what will they learn while they are with you? E.g. skills they could learn/develop and experience they could gain.

This is an exciting opportunity to help Different Gravy shape its visual style, through creating visual works that help support our brand. You will gain mentorship from the founders and work collaboratively to create a range of design outputs. This internship will give you real experience in working for a creative studio that has collaborated with the likes of Barbican, ICA, South London Gallery and more.

We are currently looking to expand our socially engaged creative practice into the world of publishing and design as well as photography and film. Our intern will gain experience in what goes in to running a small socially engaged creative studio and will help us develop our ongoing projects.

Our ambition is to take on an intern with excellent graphic design skills and fun ideas to support us on real briefs, from book design to making merch and branding. As well as archiving photographic work from our ever-growing archive and helping us to curate online content.

We can offer guidance and mentorship to our intern to help them apply their skills in illustration, design and photography, to produce playful visual work to a professional standard.

Disability Confident Employer

We can confirm that we are a Disability Confident Employer (Level 1-3) who can welcome a wide-range of disabled applicants within our level of training.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and caring responsibility. We are committed to offering a working environment where everyone is valued and feels appreciated.