Curator is building a network of freelance creatives who align with our values, standards, and ways of working. These collaborators are viewed as long-term partners whose perspectives and expertise will meaningfully shape both our work and our organization.
At this time, we are seeking graphic designers with a strong formal foundation in visual communication design who bring both conceptual rigor and aesthetic discipline to their practice. This role involves the development of considered, enduring visual systems across brand identities, editorial design, and multi-channel communications.
Designers in this role are expected to engage deeply with strategy, contributing to the translation of positioning and narrative into cohesive visual outcomes. The work demands a high level of typographic sensitivity, spatial awareness, and an understanding of design as both a functional and cultural practice.
What you bring:
- Formal education in graphic design, visual communication, or a related discipline
- A portfolio demonstrating strength in typography, grid systems, and composition
- Experience developing and applying brand systems across print and digital contexts
- A strong understanding of design history, references, and contemporary practice
- The ability to articulate design decisions with clarity and intent
- A thoughtful, detail-oriented approach to craft and execution
- Comfort working independently while contributing to a collaborative, feedback-driven process
Working With Curator
At Curator, freelancers as long-term collaborators. We believe the strongest work emerges from sustained relationships, shared accountability, and a mutual commitment to excellence.
This network also represents our future. As Curator grows, individuals who demonstrate sustained excellence, shared responsibility, and thoughtful leadership may be invited into executive roles and equity partnership. Stewardship of the work, the company, and its influence is something we believe should be earned through contribution, care, and consistency over time.
Engagement structure:
All engagements are project- and deliverables-based. Scope, timelines, and outcomes are clearly defined in advance; compensation is aligned to deliverables rather than hourly or day rates.
How to Apply
We are continually building our network for both one-off projects and ongoing engagements.
Please send your portfolio along with a brief introduction outlining your experience and areas of expertise to: info@curatordesign.co
We will be in touch if we would like to continue the conversation.
Our approach to work is informed by an understanding of culture as something that is continuously shaped, and reinforced, by the media we produce. Stories, images, interfaces, and language contribute to shared belief systems, which in turn uphold social norms and power structures.
Because of this, we take they act of making seriously. Everyone who works with Curator is asked to consider not only what they are creating, but what it supports, what it challenges, and who it ultimately serves. This responsibility applies whether the work is highly visible or quietly infrastructural.
In our relationships with clients, this responsibility takes the form of partnership. We aim to serve as trustworthy collaborators, offering clear thinking, honest guidance, and informed perspective. Trust, for us, is built through consistency, discretion, and a willingness to say what is true, even when it is difficult or inconvenient.
We believe strong client work emerges when there is shared respect and shared belief. Our role is not only to translate ideas into form, but to help clarify them, strengthen them, and sometimes question them, always in service of the client’s long-term goals and integrity.
Practically, Curator operates as a work-from-anywhere studio. We trust that focused, meaningful work can happen across geographies when expectations are clear and communication is thoughtful. We support flexible schedules and acknowledge that creative work does not always follow fixed hours.
That flexibility is balanced by a firm commitment to on-time delivery. Respect for our clients, our collaborators, and the systems we work within requires a strong adherence to boundaries, a grounded and honest sense of accountability, and an unshakable commitment to follow-through, reliability, and excellence.
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As a business, we are committed to listening, learning, and taking meaningful steps toward reconciliation. We strive to approach our work with respect, humility, and a responsibility to contribute, however we can, to a more equitable and inclusive future.
We honour the enduring relationships that Indigenous Peoples have with this land,
and we recognize that this territory has been a place of gathering, livelihood,
and cultural connection for over 10,000 years.
We acknowledge the deep and ongoing impacts of colonization, including displacement, cultural erasure, systemic injustices, and intergenerational trauma that continue to affect
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities today. We recognize that these harms are not only historical, but present and ongoing.
As a business, we are committed to listening, learning, and taking meaningful steps toward reconciliation. We strive to approach our work with respect, humility, and a responsibility to contribute, however we can, to a more equitable and inclusive future.
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