RIBAJ is seeking a brilliant, inventive and collaborative designer to work on redesigning our flagship print magazine, developing a fresh look and feel and producing templates for regular sections and features
Are you a highly creative and collaborative graphic designer with a passion for print publications?
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is seeking a designer to redesign the print edition of its flagship magazine, RIBAJ (The RIBA Journal), building on RIBA’s own rebranding and the relaunch of RIBAJ.com in late 2025.
RIBA is a global professional membership body that serves its members and society in order to deliver better buildings and places, stronger communities and a sustainable environment.
RIBAJ is all about architecture in the making, and is filled with exciting, inspiring and practical content about architecture. It uncovers lessons learned from award-winning architects, but also engages with emerging talents, exploring the ideas, forces and techniques behind their designs.
Following extensive reader and stakeholder research and a full review, RIBA is reinventing the print magazine, seeking to capitalise on the expansiveness of print.
As a leading magazine in the design and construction sector, RIBAJ reaches architects in all corners of the UK and internationally, from the architects of high-rise towers, major infrastructural projects and prestigious cultural buildings, to smalltown architects in micro-practices designing better places and crafting life-enhancing community hubs and house extensions.
RIBAJ is the UK’s largest-circulation architecture magazine, reaching 24,405 members and subscribers. Besides the print magazine, the team publishes daily articles on RIBAJ.com as well as regular newsletters and webinars.
RIBA is seeking a designer to develop a new look and feel for the magazine, to produce templates for its regular sections and features, and to provide initial oversight when these are applied by our in-house designers.
You will be
- A brilliant, inventive designer
- Rigorous and highly organised
- Interested and knowledgeable on print design, typography and use of photography
- Drawing on experience designing or laying out magazines
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
- Willing to immerse yourself in the visual landscape of architecture
- With a strong portfolio of designs you can share with us and a history of close collaboration with your clients
- Available to work on this project from July to 17 December for a January 2026 launch
Contact us by 13 June, with evidence of how you fit the bill and your portfolio, to richard.blackburn@riba.org, when further details on fee and brief will be supplied.
19 June: First interviews with Eleanor Young, RIBAJ editor, and Richard Blackburn, RIBA Publishing head of production and design
27, 30 June: Second interviews with Eleanor Young, RIBAJ editor, and Chris Foges, contributing editor