Company Introduction
Trinity Partners Group ("TPG") is a management consulting firm registered in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. TPG comprises a team of strategic planning and investment experts that focuses on cross-border business expansion and leads value-creation projects. We diagnose the three value-creation key levers - operational efficiency, cross-border development, and financial efficiency - and change business fundamentals, finally resulting in a corporate transformation.
Job Description
We believe Hong Kong is one of the typeface designers’ inspiring cities in the world as it has multiple language backgrounds and is a melting pot of eastern and western cultures. At TPG, we’re leading a global design project based in Hong Kong, with font designers, branding architectures, and great font foundries from multiple geographies.
We see typography as a visual storytelling that engages, informs, and inspires. We are looking for a highly creative typeface designer who can take conceptual ideas and create visual representations, both in print and electronic media. Our ideal candidate will have expert knowledge of current design software and skilled with every step of the design process from concept to the final deliverable. Collaborating with multiple typeface foundries of TPG, the designer should be able to take direction from written or spoken ideas and convert them into a design that connects. The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of branding and marketing, with the ability to vary style and layouts depending on the project. If you think you have what it takes to bring ideas to life with visual impact, we want to hear from you.
This job is a freelance font designer role whose responsibilities include completing assigned tasks with minimal supervision. The person will work from home for the design operations and have regular meetings on a call or at the TPG office in Hong Kong.
Objectives of this Role
- Plan on font design research, concept, and font family construction
- Design font prototype, fix improvement, and complete design mastering
- Review regional language fonts based on cultural backgrounds and social interest
- Work on a wide range of font design or typeface projects, using various computer software to visualize and develop innovative graphic designs that meet business goals
- Work independently and cooperatively on multiple projects with branding team, meeting deadlines, and scheduling project implementation based on workload
- Examine existing processes, identifying flaws and creating solutions to improve design capabilities
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in font or typography design, or similar discipline
- 2+ years of font design experience (academic and professional) with design software, including Glyphs, or FontLab, Etc.
- Understanding of font design process
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Fluent in English, native in Cantonese and Traditional Chinese, and good command of Simplified Chinese
Preferred Qualifications
- Design experience in Traditional Chinese font design sets on GB 18030
- In-depth knowledge of Hong Kong & Chinese culture and history
Excellent Benefits
- Fun to work with multinational typeface designers and font foundries
- Flexible working hours and places