Daily Mail
Visual Storytelling Designer/Illustrator
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Visual Storytelling Designer/Illustrator
Conceptual Designer Location: Daily Mail Headquarters, HSK, London, W8 5HY Type: Full-Time / Permanent / Hybrid (4 days in-office, 1 day remote)
About Us
The Daily Mail, an award-winning multi-platform news brand, reaches over 33 million print and online readers monthly. As the world’s largest news publisher on TikTok (21M+ followers), it delivers breaking news, exclusives, and lifestyle content across print, digital, video, audio, and social media.
Its global newsroom combines informative journalism, eye-catching visuals, and dynamic storytelling across platforms. Part of dmg media, the Mail drives engagement through bold, innovative content.
The Role
We’re looking for a Conceptual Designer to imaginatively bridge ideas into striking illustrations, digital imagery, and sophisticated visuals that captivate Daily Mail’s global audience. You’ll be the visual storyteller who nurses narratives from concept to platform, delivering vibrant, engaging assets through endless channels.
About the Position
Daily Mail thrives on breaking news, personality and fast-paced storytelling. A five-day senior editorial deadline countdown clock loops around this 100-metre Superman who wants to know if it’s bedtime yet might sound like a children’s reading schedule... We provide relentless richness that suits that style.
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As our Conceptual Designer you will:
Main Responsibilities
- Develop ideas into illustrations and photomontages, ensuring cohesive branding with the Daily Mail visual style.
- Design visuals tailored to print and digital/TV-first, maintaining consistency across homepage, social media, and other platforms.
- Collaborate with Graphics, Video, Social Media, Editors, and Developers to ensure cross-platform visual coherency.
- Assist in **developing and evolving the Daily Mail’s visual style, working closely with the Visuals Director.
- Meet tight deadlines in a fast-moving newsroom, delivering visuals for breaking stories, exclusives, and editorial projects.
- Produce visuals for both sudden storytelling demands and project-based content, maintaining pace and quality.
Ideal Fit Skills
- Strong skills in digital illustration, Photoshop, and InDesign—from basic collage through sophisticated concept art.
- Creative flair for delivering bold design ideas with a verbose attention to detail.
- Ability to offer daily quick-turn graphic solutions but also develop longer visual ideas for projects or series.
- Desire to work across multi-media platforms and adapt visuals to reach as wide an audience as possible.
- Familiarity with techniques like Webtoons, utilising motion graphics, and typical image cloning from real shooting. See note on After Effects animating below.
- Team player attitude.
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Enhancement bonus but not essential descriptors ✓ Structurally moving UI/UX graphics or HTML/CSS front-end development knowledge. ✓ Proficient After Effects animating software experience.
Our Commitment
Aspiring to build a diverse and inclusive newsroom, Daily Mail welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to equal opportunity and will consider all applicants without prejudice based on ethnicity, gender, age, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation, civil status, or disability.
Please inform us of any adjustments you require during the recruitment process—we’re happy to accommodate. You can confidentially share any access needs in writing, and we’ll keep those details completely separate from your application.
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