Fontana identity & design

Fontana design (www.fontana-design.com), consultants in design and visual communication based in Brussels recruits a UX/UI designer (M/F/X)

As UX/UI designer you create and develop projects in line with a briefing, from concept to client delivery including project budget management.
You are equally responsible for the updating of files and the internal network.

If you have:

- a Master’s degree in Visual Communication or Design (graphic, video and animations, new technologies) or equivalent
- agency experience (minimum 2 years)
- proficiency in FIGMA, Adobe and Office suites

Good insight in digital and graphic design and web development including:

- designing attractive and responsive user-interfaces using FIGMA
- knowledge of UX/UI best practices and accessibility standards
- maintenance of WordPress websites
- creation of animations, gif
- strategy and posts on social media
- video editing

And besides all this, your skills include a sharp sense of critical and conceptual thinking and organisation. You are ambitious, resilient and eager to learn. You are driven by the Clean and Green Transition and want to contribute to building climate change mitigation solutions. You have a wide range of interests. You like to work in team but also independently.
We equally appreciate good oral and writing skills in English and French. Dutch would be an important asset.

We are also keen on team players and life lovers, on communicators with an outspoken flair to negotiate (listen, dialogue, adapt), and manage priorities
If this pictures you, then by all means contact us, because we are waiting for you.

We offer

- work on an array of relevant projects for national, European and international customers in the heart of Brussels.
- within a full time contract of indefinite duration and a market-based salary package.

Interested?

Send in your CV and portfolio to [email protected]

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On this 67th European anniversary, we like to highlight a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by research, creative thinking and industrial development.
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On this 67th European anniversary, we like to highlight a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by research, creative thinking and industrial development.
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Today, Julian, Friedrich and Susanne Riess, 9th generation of the family, are at the helm of the company.
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On this 67th European anniversary, we like to highlight a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by research, creative thinking and industrial development.

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On the occasion of this 67th European anniversary, we like to highlight a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by research, creative thinking and industrial development.
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On this 67th European anniversary, we like to highlight a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by research, creative thinking and industrial development.
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In view of the 67th European anniversary we like to showcase a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by industrial development and creative thinking.
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In view of the 67th European anniversary we like to showcase a series of meaningful design objects that were enabled by industrial development and creative thinking.

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