Location
Singapore
Salary
S$ 7,000 – 8,500
Seniority Level
Manager/Director
Years of Experience
5 years
Description
NEON transforms and re-imagines the experience and the business of the travelling and permanent exhibition. NEON brings everyone, fans and families, closer to what they love and closer to each other. Bringing multi-disciplinary experts from the entertainment industry and various other relevant practices like finance, marketing and engineering. Since 2011 and even more so starting in 2017, NEON (fka Cityneon) has embarked on a journey of exponential growth that continues to this day. NEON combines all practices from the entertainment world, from theatrical technics to the most relevant recent technologies, to create engaging experiences.
Neon provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
Neon expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Neon VHE’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
website: www.neonglobal.com
Responsibilities
The Art Director has strong creative intuitions, an advanced and compelling graphic or visual design background and the ability to lead a team.
The Art Director shall design experiences and events for renowned brands in addition to working on the creation of original IP, with a focus on international pavilion exposition design, the expo industry and events and exhibitions. The chosen candidate can understand the essence of a brand or a story and imagine original and resonant ways to give it dimensions, physicality and elevation. This person is forward-thinking, curious about the world and passionate about conceptualizing surprising, moving, visual stories and immersive experiences.
Duties and responsibilities
- Mentor, guide and manage the team to ensure team members are motivated, challenged and inspired to perform at their best.
- Manage project deliverables, processes, resource allocation and other design studio matters
- Conceptualize and drive proposals and pitches fully, together with a team.
- Creates remarkable, resonant and memorable experiences for guests / clients.
- Drives and initiates regular contact to represent the creative development of exhibitions to our internal teams (VHE, BIG LAB, ANIMAX, CNEX) and/or our external partners and collaborators.
- Research original, relevant, resonant, new creation and design sources, methods, approaches, materials to support the design effort at each stage of Neon’s development and evolution.
- Contributes to a collaborative, collective process of exhibit/experience development.
- Participates in the planning of exhibit and experience design related projects in coordination with other team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in design, visual arts, architecture, environmental, museum installation or any related field, highly desirable.
- Requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in designing above mentioned fields with regards to installations, exhibits, conventions, immersive theatre, or similar.
- Expertise in Sketch up, AutoCAD, Photoshop or Illustrator is a strong plus.
- Thinks holistically about a project – narrative, guest journey, retail, box-office, F&B, interactives, etc.
- Capacity to cultivate the presence to focus on one task at a time while planning and organizing for multiple requests, projects and deadlines, in a start-up (meaning not fully defined) environment.
- Demonstrate initiative, foresight and the love of solving small and big problems. Skillful communications of ideas, concept, form and content.
- Understanding of design fabrication, prototyping and production.