Freelance Brand Designer - Music & Events

Are you a brand designer with a passion for electronic music and youth culture? We're working with a creative team looking to collaborate with a freelance designer on a full brand refresh for a renowned Drum & Bass brand spanning events, a record label, and merch.

This is an exciting opportunity to set the visual direction for a cult name in the scene - crafting identity work that will be seen across stages, socials, and sound systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Refresh and evolve the brand's existing icon logo with updated usage guidelines and lockups

• Design a new secondary icon logo for use across social platforms

• Create a complementary wordmark to work alongside the logo

• Build a brand system including colour palette and typography hierarchy

• Define a basic motion approach for logo/type animation

• Deliver a 10-15 page brand guidelines deck covering the full identity system

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in brand identity design, ideally within music, nightlife, or youth culture

• Confident designing logos, iconography, and expressive wordmarks

• Experience creating type systems and scalable visual hierarchies

• Working knowledge of motion design principles (logo/type animation)

• Ability to lead your own process - from concept through to polished deliverables

• Bonus: familiarity with brand references like Fabriclive, Outlook Festival, Critical Music, DnB Allstars, Drumcode, etc.

Salary & Benefits

• £300 per day

• Freelance contract

• Flexible working - remote-friendly

• Creative autonomy and a cultural client you'll want on your portfolio

• 12-16 days of work over 4 weeks (3-5 days per week)

Location & Workplace Policy

• Remote work with flexible scheduling

• UK-based candidates preferred for time zone alignment

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