Job Description: Designer, Bethesda Magazine. Bethesda Magazine is looking for a creative, talented and hardworking designer to work with the Art Director to design and produce the magazine. We offer a supportive and dynamic workplace, and the opportunity to take your talent to the next level. Requirements:. 2+ years of professional magazine design and production experience. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to take initiative / self-starter. Organized multi-tasker. Ability to effectively juggle and prioritize to meet deadlines and manage heavy workload. Possess clean typography skills and a keen eye for accuracy. An almost obsessive attention to detail. Extensive MAC knowledge in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Strong 4-color production knowledge and ability to prep files for various production processes. Experience and aptitude transferring print content into digital media. Knowledge of color correction for process printing. A bachelor's degree. Job Responsibilities:. Work with art director and editors to come up with photo and graphic ideas to illustrate articles. Assign and communicate ideas to photographers/illustrators. Research and acquire stock images. Design department articles and some features. Flow text into layouts, link images and fine tune all details of editorial and ad pages. Establish and maintain schedules, processes and practices to ensure that all quality standards and deadlines are met. Produce advertising profile sections and work with advertising coordinator to make edits per advertiser request. Make color corrections. Place ads and troubleshoot any low-res images or other issues. Place high-res images, make high-res PDFs. Track proofing process and accurately make editors' changes. Work with printer on inline/color concerns. Pre-flight pages. Upload files to printer through InSite. Go on press checks. Make PDFs per client requests.