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Senior Graphic Designer, Web

Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine CA 92602 USA | Full Time | Posted: 03/07/2013

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Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard’s track record includes thirteen #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a senior graphic designer to join the battle.net team. The battle.net team designs and develops all of Blizzard Entertainment’s web projects, ranging from community, account management, marketing, and e-commerce sites, to social features like character profiles and forums for multiple regions around the globe.

The ideal candidate is a talented, motivated, and accomplished graphic designer who can leverage the distinctive visual styles of Blizzard Entertainment's universes to create stunning website layouts, graphics, and user interfaces. This person must have a deep understanding of web design principles as well as information flow, readability, and interface usability principles to create graphic designs that not only are visually beautiful, but also translate into highly functional, legible, and easy-to-use web pages.

Requirements

Exceptional graphic design skills, artistic sense, and compositing abilities
Strong understanding of information flow, readability, and interface usability principles
Able to work within, and build upon the Blizzard Entertainment art style
Expert-level knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
Positive, problem-solving attitude
Organizational skills
A passion for user interface, and web page graphic design
A passion for video games

Pluses

Experience collaborating with a dedicated user experience team
Proficiency in creating vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator
Knowledge of video editing, and animation with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects (or equivalent package)
Experience designing pages for multiple form factors
Past design experience on gaming industry websites

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.

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Location Irvine, CA, 92602, United States
Job Level Senior
Categories Art / Animation

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