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Creative Graduate Program – The Distillery

Kickstart your creative career!

Real-world creative + commercial fundamentals

Become a Creative Professional

Not just a graphic designer, arm yourself with sustainable commercial skills.

Support & Teamwork

Dynamic training and learning in a full time graduate position.

First rotation – publication design

Hone your InDesign skills with stylesheets, data merges and advanced processes.

Studio 2023

   Creative Culture

The dynamic world of a creative professional is fast-paced and human-centred.

With digital everywhere, The Distillery challenges the other way; We stand for engaging tactile design, which expresses a spark of life!

The Distillery is passionate about crafting soul-forgiving, real-world design that proudly lives outside digital screens.

Designing and printing bespoke print, publications and luxury event stationery is our specialisation.

Once a year, we open our doors for new talent:

The Creative Graduate Program

Developed for recent graduates and fresh professionals, the creative graduate program offers full time employment at entry level.

In a driven and nurturing environment, the program is designed to support self-confident juniors in their formative years to one day become industry-leading creative professionals.

More than just a designer, a creative professional leverages a full array of design and commercial skills – thinking, communicating, producing and leading. Future-proofing themselves with evolving times and needs.

Over time, the program offers rotational learning opportunities across a range of different Distillery teams, commercial industries and creative services.

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First Rotation: Publication Design

The first core placement is as a Junior Consultant & Designer with The Distillery’s publication team, Rockstar Memoirs.

You will focus on development of your publication design and project management skills.

 

Creative – honing design fundamentals
  • Composition
  • Hierarchy
  • Typesetting
  • Attention to technical detail
  • Process efficiency and excellence in Adobe InDesign
Commercial – making it happen
  • Project management: timeline and budgeting
  • Learning to communicate effectively with others
  • Leading projects
  • Sales quotations

Build your career with variety

Choose your own adventure with stability and excitement. The Distillery offers term career growth across creative, commercial, technical and leadership fields.

Future program rotations may include combinations of

  • Event stationery design
  • Packaging design
  • Brand design and strategy
  • Illustration, calligraphy and hand-lettering
  • Styling, interiors and mural artwork design
  • Business and new product development
  • Direct marketing campaigns
  • Printmaking, bespoke craft manufacturing
  • Leadership: creative, project and team

Is this program for you?

Are we a good match? We love to be clear and upfront.

About You

  • You are self-confident and self-assured
  • You can adopt feedback shared by colleagues

Your Experiences

  • You are mentally resilient and socially mature
  • You have previously been employed in a client facing role

Your Goals

  • You are seeking to anchor yourself and grow over the medium term
  • You are highly ambitious

Your Attitudes

  • Working in small teams feels better than working alone
  • It’s great to keep busy – passing time is not so fun
  • Print design is where it’s at. Churning IG banners isn’t #1
  • Creativity is your lifestyle, and have hobbies to show for it

Benefits of The Distillery

  • Team first – the work we do together outweighs personal tasks. Everyone is driven and supportive.
  • Creative studio – work from our buzzing Crown Street, Darlinghurst studio workshop.
  • Calligraphy school – develop your fundamentals in hand-lettering
  • Personal projects – studio sponsored materials and manufacturing for your creative projects.

 

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