Opportunities

Opportunities Available:


Graphic Designer


Total Contract Fee: $4,000


Location: This is a remote contract that will require in-person meetings on occasion. 


Position Summary

Images Festival is seeking a Graphic Designer with experience in print production to update the 2026 festival identity in response to the annual theme Metabolizing Moving Images.

Reporting to the Programming Director, this position is ideal for someone highly organized, collaborative, and self-motivated. The ideal applicant considers their design practice as accessible, experimental, and conceptually driven, and is inspired by experimental moving image culture. We’re looking for a clear communicator with extreme attention to detail and who thrives in a creative environment.

We invite applications from mid-career to established graphic designers with demonstrated experience in print design.

 

Project Objectives

This contract focuses on developing a cohesive festival identity that incorporates the current Images Festival logo, designing and producing the festival catalogue (8x11, 84 page bound magazine), a limited edition festival notebook, miscellaneous print media and creating an identity package that may be applied to reusable assets to be applied to web, social media, the Images Festival newsletter, and festival preshow. 


Project Background

The Images Festival catalogue plays a critical role in archiving the festival and preserving the festival’s history. It ensures that the festival’s contributions to moving image culture are recognized in their broader historical context and helps track the evolution of pivotal experimental and media art practices over time. 


The catalogue also enhances the festival experience for audiences by providing program synopses, micro-essays and contextual details that deepen understanding of complex or experimental works. It offers short, critical writings or reflections that challenge audiences to think more deeply about our themes and methodologies. 


As a take-home guide for those wishing to revisit the ideas or artists presented at the festival, the catalogue serves as a key communication and promotion tool that can attract attention from press, funders and institutional partners by showcasing the festival’s intellectual and artistic rigor and reinforcing the festival’s identity through its design and content. Each year, the updated Festival identity as seen within the catalogue is applied to web, social media, the Images Festival newsletter, the festival preshow and miscellaneous print media. You can find examples here. 


Application

  1. One page cover letter 
  2. Expression of interest, maximum of 250 words
  3. Bio, maximum of 250 words
  4. Portfolio of 5-7 examples of print and web work.


Please send the four requirements in one central .pdf document to programmingdirector@imagesfestival.com. 


More information about this application can be found here


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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 


As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 


Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.