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Orangutan Studio are looking for a fulltime digital Project Manager with 1-2 years agency experience to join our small but growing team.

Us

We are an independent creative agency specialising in web design, development, communications and online strategy & marketing.

We can offer you an enthusiastic team environment where you will have the opportunity to be involved in some key projects that will be instrumental in Orangutan’s growth over the next year.

You

We need someone to help us manage the day to day process on a series of pan-european site builds. You will be primarily responsible for keeping the project budgets and timings on track along with close collaboration with our clients to collate and manage site content.

Exposure to and an understanding of the key processes in website design and build are  critical qualities for this role as are organisational skills, initiative and thinking on your feet.

You will have a good working knowledge of the day to day requirements in managing and delivering large brand sites with a wide range of content  sources, ideally across multiple languages.

You should have a desire to help the studio grow and will be responsible for implementing good working day to day practices.

An understanding of the latest web technologies and trends is required and the ability to communicate at a detailed level with with both our Design and Development teams.

The role is based in our East London studio but will also involve a reasonable amount of European travel over the next 8 months.

If you’re interested in talking to us about the job we’d like to see the following:

• your CV

• specific project examples along with a brief description of your role

• your salary expectations

Please send your information to jobs@orangutanstudio.com

NO AGENCIES THANK YOU.

Good friend of Orangutan, Immo, is off to Vietnam and Cambodia in February to take part in a somewhat epic 470km cycle in aid of the humanitarian landmine clearance charity MAG.

A great effort for a very worthy cause and worth sponsoring in it’s own right. However Mr Blaese has gone one step further and designed and printed  created a bunch of posters, tshirts and postcards which in his own words are:

”A limited edition of original screenprints and other items I have carefully created for this event. If you decide to sponsor me for MAG landmine clearance I would like to give something back to you. 100% of all the money raised will go directly to MAG via JustGiving.”

So if you think you’d like to donate and maybe bag a rather nice print at the same time go here: http://www.vietnam2cambodia.com/

Bravo Immo, an outstanding effort!

Whilst in France recently we decided to take a cable car up a terribly high mountain as demoed below:

It was most exhilarating and somewhat reminiscent of a Bond movie, as we neared the top I was half expecting Jaws to come crashing through the roof of the gondola. Anyway despite being quite taken with the info graphics used I was somewhat alarmed by the signage shown below:

Firstly as if you need to say that; only a fool would do such a thing.

Secondly said fool probably wouldn’t have thought of such an amusing ruse until prompted by such clear visual communication.

Signage as ‘Red Rag to a Bull’ in my opinion.

…and I’m expecting skills… skills i tell you…

3 months residency at The National Workshops for Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, with your own studio, your own flat… *sigh*
If you’re young (and indeed talented) go here

Hanna Werning’s wallpaper collection inspired by London is very cool.

I love the colours and the weird abstract shapes.

Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

But it’s so goddam good… on Vimeo

I like to draw things up sometimes, helps me get my head around more complex problems. But i do get very bored with drawing and re-drawing browser frames (or photocopying), so i like this

very useful (to me)

sketchbook for web-designers

… but if i had a car (or could drive for that matter). i’m sure i’d find inspiration amongst these beauties.

next time i’m in madison… i’m there