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Letterpress Printmaking – Traineeship

Unique

I am…

  • Passionate about with letterpress
  • Graphic design educated
  • Experienced in craft making

My skills are …

  • Mental strength and resilience
  • Rational problem solving

This opportunity is…

  • 4 to 5 days/week, from our Darlinghurst studio
  • A traineeship > potential permanent employment

Learn to become a creative craft professional…

The Distillery design and print spectacular creative projects, specialising in letterpress printing, hot-foil stamping and embossing.

Our Production Team is a creatively inspired, multi-talented unit who craft projects from PDF into tangible and creative communications touch points.

We are a small, strong team seeking to take on the right person who is ready to swim in our unique pond.

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Forge your skills

The Printmaking Traineeship is designed to offer you commercial craft-production skills, serving as a solid launch pad for your rewarding career as a creative professional. During the traineeship, you will be trained in core printmaking activities including paper stocks, inks, foils, plates, dies, craft process, equipment and effective teamwork.

Drawing on your problem-solving and hand-based skills, you will work towards learning to foil and letterpress print using beautiful Heidelberg platens and large format proofing presses.

What’s it like working at The Distillery?

Our studio is a fast paced, supportive team-based environment. Together, we push the boundaries and transform the highly necessary, little-experimental-failures into great strides forward. To feel at home, you must be comfortable with this formula of creativity.

We offer the thrilling environment of a start-up company, with the stability of a progressive award-winning creative studio. We recruit people who care greatly about what they do, and share high levels of self-initiative and drive.

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Training and Employment

You must be available between 4 to 5 days per M-F week. During the 12-18 week duration, you will be employed under the Graphic Arts, Printing and Publishing Award.

While a design or printmaking degree is helpful, no prior experience is necessary. Upon successful completion of the traineeship, we aim to offer trainees permanent employment to join our team, offering even more creative opportunities.

Skills and Suitability

The craft of printmaking is a beautiful process and while it sounds highly romantic, the commercial trade is often filled with challenges. We’re seeking candidates with

  • Stability
  • Problem-solving skills
  • High levels of resilience – grit
  • Initiative
  • A sense of urgency when it counts
  • The ability to work closely with colleagues
  • Strength to lift a 10kg chase

Employment Benefits

In addition to your salary, superannuation and leave entitlements, with approval you will also be eligible for resources and equipment for your own personal projects.

Most importantly, The Distillery has a friendly, go-getting positive culture, and we are all driven by happiness and success in the evolving creative industry. This often turns the idea of ‘going to work’ into having an enjoyable day in Darlinghurst.

Apply now

The Distillery is currently accepting applications, ready for an immediate start in the second half of 2025.

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