Senior Designer, Freelance / Contract
This Edition is seeking a Senior Designer on a freelance basis to help shape identities for some of the most distinctive places in Europe. Working directly with the founder, you will craft visually considered, editorially intelligent design across branding and digital, for luxury property developments, and the cultural narratives that give them meaning.
This is project-based work for a designer who treats brand-building as authorship: someone fluent in typography, restraint, and the quiet precision that defines high-end work. You'll move between place identity, editorial systems, and refined digital experiences.
This Edition is an independent studio based in Venice, Italy, working with clients across Europe and beyond. The role can be fully remote or working within the Studio. We welcome collaborators anywhere, with a preference for those who can work fluidly across European time zones.
- Place and Brand Identity: Develop visual systems, identities, and editorial languages for luxury property and destination projects, translating cultural heritage, landscape, and ambition into coherent, enduring brands.
- Editorial and Art Direction: Bring an editor's eye to layout, typography, and image, shaping brochures, advertising, and brand collateral with the polish expected of the luxury sector.
- Digital Experiences: Design considered, responsive websites and interfaces that carry the brand through to the screen, working closely on UX, structure, and aesthetic precision across devices.
- Collaboration: Work directly with the founder and, where relevant, development partners, guiding design specifications and ensuring intent survives implementation.
- Craft and Curiosity: Stay close to the evolving worlds of design, luxury positioning, and digital strategy, bringing fresh thinking to each engagement.
- Proven experience as a senior designer, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine taste and high-end, considered work, ideally within luxury, property, hospitality, or editorial.
- Mastery of the craft: typography, layout, colour, and visual systems, with deep fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
- A strong understanding of UX/UI principles, responsive design, and modern web standards.
- The ability to think in brands and systems, not just individual deliverables.
- Self-direction and reliability, comfortable managing your own time across multiple projects with exacting attention to detail.
- Clear, generous communication and a collaborative, low-ego approach.
This Edition is a design practice founded and led by Matthew Gavioli. What began as an individual practice with a clear point of view has, over time, become a trusted creative partner to studios, in-house teams, and brands with something considered to say.
Our work focuses on brand identities, digital experiences, and placemaking projects built for clarity, purpose, and longevity. At the centre of each project is a coherent strategic and visual framework, aligning language, form, and experience to shape how a brand is understood and remembered. We value work that is both intelligent and functional, expressed through considered decisions, intentional restraint, and a deep respect for context.
Rates are agreed per project or engagement, based on scope and experience.
Please send your portfolio, a short note on why this work interests you, and any relevant experience to matt@thisedition.co, with the subject line "Senior Designer, [Your Name]". Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; we'll be in touch with shortlisted candidates.