Paris, France
Exhibition designer
at Avesta Group
Avesta Group is looking for a senior exhibition designer to join its team remotely/in Paris, France.
The selected candidate, acting as Avesta’s artistic director, will lead the creative team through the design development stages of permanent and temporary exhibitions. The senior designer is in charge of translating each project-specific curatorial and interpretive vision prepared by our curatorial team into a spatial design that provides a unique, site-specific design language tailored to the local context.
They must possess a combination of technical knowledge, leadership experience, and, ideally, a creative personality. The candidate is expected to be a dynamic professional with a unique creative vision who is passionate and inspires the creative team.
Responsibilities:
- lead and deliver creative exhibition design concepts
- act as artistic director for all exhibitions projects
- project development lead from concept to executive drawings
- elaborate sketches, plans, 3D construction graphs, and construction details to express the projects’ interior design and technical aspects; Illustrate concepts using renderings, sketches and presentation documents
- prepare 3D models and generate plans, elevations and sections
- present and articulate design concepts and intent to internal and external stakeholders
- collaborate closely with all project stakeholders
- supervise team members (internal or external) to ensure the completion of technical drawing deliverables if needed
Required qualifications:
- bachelor’s degree in architecture (knowledge of interior design, exhibition design)
- minimum of eight years’ experience in the conception of exhibitions
- experience working in a multicultural environment
- be experienced in multiple phases of the design process, including conceptualisation, design development and construction supervision
- have a good knowledge of the latest exhibition techniques, including multimedia
- excellent communication abilities in English
- excellent command of interior architecture technical drawing (all scales)
- good command of AutoCAD
- good command of 3D modelling in SketchUp, 3DS Max or equivalents
- good knowledge of photorealistic rendering, V-Ray or equivalent
- good knowledge of Adobe creative suite software (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop)
- high interest in teamwork
- capacity to work on short notice
To submit your application, submit your cover letter, CV and portfolio (10MB).
Interviews will only be granted following the receipt of a portfolio. Only candidates with relevant profiles will be contacted.