Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Sköna is seeking a multidisciplinary art director and designer to join our creative team in the San Francisco office. You come up with great ideas and design stunning creative for branding, campaigns, events, and digital media. You excel at developing brands, think holistically about brand experiences, and are equipped to elevate our designs for the B2B tech space. You also need to be a team player, inspiring the creative team, oversee design from concept to design to production on multiple simultaneous projects, and work well across disciplines and offices. 

About Sköna’s Culture

We’re a small (but mighty) creative agency based in San Francisco and Stockholm. Our niche is to transform B2B and tech companies into brave brands and we work with our clients on a range of creative services including brand strategy and development, website development, event marketing, outdoor advertising, and much more. Our team is tight-knit and we love what we do. We like to do great work but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We focus on collaboration to produce beautiful results, which means we leave our egos at the door.

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Push our agency and clients in creating forward-thinking creative
• Interpret brand strategy into the development of visual brand systems
• Concept and design for a wide range of materials that include digital, print, & outdoor advertising media, direct mail, web pages, presentations, collateral, signage, trade show booths, internal communication, newsletters, and marketing materials
• Create and extend high-quality design and assets within an established brand identity
• Take concepts, and execute original content, from design through production
• Collaborate with digital UX, producers and developers to extend brand concepts to website experiences
• Have oversight and accountability of design projects from start to finish
• Stay on top of design trends, and connect with the design community
• Represent the agency’s creative ‘product’ – present concepts and ideas to clients

Requirements

• 6+ years of proven experience in graphic design, branding, digital design & advertising, with a portfolio that showcases a breadth of design work that drive business results
• Expert proficiency in Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Sketch, Invision, Google Suite
• Excellent proficiency in print and digital production, web design concepts (grids, wireframes, UI/UX, etc)
• Highly developed interpersonal skills that works well with a multidisciplinary team 
• Excellent presentation and verbal communication skills and an ability to sell your work to clients 
• Passionate about the field of branding, design and advertising, and up-to-date with new design technologies and trends
• Motion (After Effects, Premiere), Web prototyping (Principle), 3D-modeling (Cinema 4-D), Illustration, photography, or copywriting experience a plus
• Creative problem solver and can-do attitude
• B2B experience and agency experience both a plus
• Organizational and time-management skills to work efficiently and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

5 signs that you are the right candidate

• You are a creative problem solver – you have an entrepreneurial spirit and you act proactively. 
• You have a doggedly curious spirit.
• You are fun to work with – and you have great people skills. 
• You love design and using creativity as a tool to help elevate brands and drive business growth.
• You like working in a small environment with a flat organization where everyone’s opinion is respected, in other words, the idea of Team Skona always coming first appeals to you!

Benefits

• Salary commensurate with experience
• 401(k) plan, paid federal company holidays
• Full medical/dental/vision package to fit your needs
• Commuter benefits
• Competitive vacation policy

Sköna is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. Sköna does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.

Sköna

Law firm is seeking an Sr. Entertainment Assistant to support one of their Partners.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Heavy scheduling, coordinating and organizing phone calls and meetings, documents distribution, emails, etc.
• Performs clerical and administrative tasks including drafting letters, memos, etc.
• Ability to redline and update/finalize documents is required
• Manage client holiday gifting
• Arranges travel and accommodations as needed
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 8-10+ years of related assistance experience required; law firm experience a plus
• Extremely proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or similar software with the ability to learn new or updated software

Hire Options, Inc.

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation operates a 4,000-foot state of the art exhibition area that highlights prints, paintings, and sculptures of the most important American artists of our time!

These shows have been available by appointment to various groups over the last two years. We now feel that it would serve the community to open the exhibition space to the public several days a week. Therefore, we are looking for someone who loves contemporary art and can help arrange school groups, art groups, and seniors, as well as be there during open hours on dates to be determined. This individual should have an art history background and is someone who likes people and enjoys hosting these groups in the exhibition space.

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation has been building its art collection since the 1970’s. it now consists of thousands of prints, paintings, and sculptures of major artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, David Hockney, Hank Willis Thomas, Jeffrey Gibson, Vanessa German, Alison Saar, Judy Chicago, Leonardo Drew, and Jim Dine to name a few. The 4,000-foot exhibition space usually exhibits 80-120 works of art, and it is attached to the 52,000-foot warehouse where eleven art professionals work maintaining and managing the collection.

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation has also been instrumental in loaning works for sole exhibitions from its collections to 120 museums. All these exhibitions are loaned at no cost. In 2022, we had twenty openings around the country such as Global Asias, 18 Asian artists, Kara Walker, premiere Black artist of our time, Art of Food, twenty-five artists with food in their art, Marie Watt, amazing Native American artist, and others.

Essential Job Duties:

• Front of house support greeting visitors.
• Schedule and coordinate visits with Portland-area arts and/or community institutions.
• Assist in coordinating gallery events/opening receptions (outside normal business hours).
• Ability to give informed exhibition tour.
• General administrative support.

Education/Experience/Certifications:

• Degree art history or equivalent experience in related field is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team.
• Experience and continued interest in learning about post-war and contemporary art.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

POSITION SUMMARY //

We are looking for an experienced Experiential designer who is passionate about integrating art, storytelling, and brand expression into the built environment. Someone who can strategically conceptualize a whole project, as well as design individual custom elements. We are looking for someone creative and energetic with a good understanding of architecture, art, and fabrication. Projects are multifaceted and highly collaborative, so a self-driven, organized, cooperative, and flexible attitude is necessary.

SKILLS AND EXPECTATIONS //

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in architecture, art fabrication, exhibit design, industrial design, or interior design

• Bachelor’s degree in related field

• Ability to quickly communicate concept ideas through sketches, diagrams, mood boards, and collage

• Strong ability for written and verbal communication, including client presentations

• Experienced in 3D modeling a must. Rhino preferred

• Experienced in Adobe Creative Suite

• Highly collaborative attitude and experience working with other designers, architects, project managers, graphic designers, engineers, fabricators, lighting designers, and clients

• Ability to understand architectural drawing sets and fabrication shop drawings

• Understanding of fabrication techniques, materials, and processes

• Curiosity to learn more and push boundaries of artistic expression and fabrication

• Ability to think with your hands; proven experience in designing and building things

• Knowledge of ergonomics, Universal Design, ADA standards

• Interest and experience in Environmental Graphic concept design, development, and print mechanicals a plus

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES //

• Take a design brief and turn it into exciting, layered and strategic concept design

• Blend together environmental graphic design, 3D design, experiential design, art curation, spatial design and, wayfinding, and develop and deliver these ideas with the project team

• Prepare design decks and present to clients confidently, and passionately

• Listen and synthesize client feedback effectively, guide the team in completing work inline with client needs and wants

• Plan, manage, and complete project tasks from concepts through design documents and coordination with the engineering, fabrication, and installation teams

• Work as part of a larger design team, closely with the Creative Director and senior leadership

• Manage multiple design projects at various stages of development

• Collaborate with leadership, engineers, fabricators, and other designers to develop realistic solutions while maintaining a strong design aesthetic

• Develop creative design solutions that are in line with project goals and understand their impact on cost, production, and other variables

• Prepare graphic presentations for client review, and present work articulately

and passionately

• 3D model designs, and create renderings and other project visualizations for clients and

the public

• Create mock-up 2D graphics for the built environment, using illustrator and

/ or photoshop

• Communicate status of projects consistently to project manager and leadership

• Mentor junior designers

• Contribute to a sense of growth of a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio

• Research and integrate art, experience design, new materials, technologies, and building methods into design ideas

SPMDesign

CASTING CALL

Do you want to surprise your friend, housemate, partner, or family member?

Looking for a household in which to surprise one person celebrating a milestone (could be a birthday etc.)

Someone who’ll have a BIG reaction!

Must be based in the UR and happy for this to be filmed at your home

Fee paid: 2 people {500 each}

Shoot: Tuesday 1st Aug (tbc)

Branded content for mobile network

Ages 21+

Promo Models Needed

July 19th in Atlanta, GA

• 21 and older
• Timberland Boots required
• Paid promo

COMMERCIAL CASTING CALL IN MANCHESTER

We are looking for:

• People based in MCR and the North West.
  • Asian couples over 45

No acting experience is required

Filming w/c 31st of July

Paid £1350 (if featured in final commercial)

FLORIDA CAMPAIGN

Seeking:

• Families with Kids (3-13 years old) for upcoming commercial shoots for theme parks. 

CASTING MARCHING BANDS/ MEMBERS FOR UPCOMING ESPN SHOOT

SEEKING:

• Bass Drummers
• Tuba or Similar
• Trumpets

MUST HAVE OWN INSTRUMENT

Must be 18+ and work as local hire to Miami.

Open to all gender, race, ethnicities.

Open to individual and group auditions

Models needed on Thursday at 1 pm for Music Video

Models Needed Thursday for scenes at a pool.

Paid gig