Graphic Designer
Company: Detroit Institute of Arts
Location: Detroit, MI 48202 (Remote)
Salary: $60,026 - $72,031 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-26
About this role
# JOB TITLE: Graphic Designer
# DEPARTMENT: Exhibitions
REPORTS TO: Director, Exhibitions
### CLASSIFICATION: Full-Time, Exempt
REMOTE WORK ELIGIBILITY: Partial
### GENERAL SUMMARY
Under the guidance of the Director, Exhibitions, the Graphic Designer is responsible for designing impactful and dynamic graphic identities for exhibitions and internal and external institutional initiatives from concept to execution. Working collaboratively with cross-departmental teams, the Graphic Designer leverages current design practice to develop world-class experiences that embody the DIA’s visitor-centered approach across print, digital, and environmental graphics.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides graphic design services for all museum needs internal and external including but not limited to Exhibitions, Marketing and Communications, Development, Programming, Visitor Experience, Events, Education Programs, Interpretation, Studio, Talent and Culture, and other museum projects as assigned.
- Collaborate with internal museum stakeholders to manage and design world-class museum experiences from concept to execution across exhibitions, installation, print, digital, and environmental graphics.
- Research and develop exhibition and initiative identities and execute them across a variety of platforms (in-gallery graphics, signage, invitations, etc.).
- Create design assets that align and elevate exhibition and initiative identities and DIA standards.
- Execute designed identities across a variety of assets, ensuring a shared design language between designs for in-gallery graphics, invitation suites, signage, and other collateral.
- Design and execute bespoke programs for non-exhibition events and programs.
- Execute one-off institutional projects in adherence with the brand identity and design systems.
- Develop, maintain, and present effective presentations, mockups, and prototypes to project teams to facilitate feedback mechanisms and...