Art Directors

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Art Director, Creative Director, Group Art Supervisor, Production Manager

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What they do:
Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design.
On the job, you would:
  • Formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound.
  • Manage own accounts and projects, working within budget and scheduling requirements.
  • Confer with creative, art, copywriting, or production department heads to discuss client requirements and presentation concepts and to coordinate creative activities.

Knowledge

Business

  • sales and marketing
  • customer service

Arts and Humanities

  • English language
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture

Communications

  • multimedia

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • come up with lots of ideas
  • create new and original ideas

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Innovation
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Initiative

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Web platform development software

  • AJAX Hot Technology
  • Cascading style sheets CSS Hot Technology

Video creation and editing software

  • Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects Hot Technology In Demand
  • YouTube

Graphics or photo imaging software

  • Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud software Hot Technology In Demand
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator Hot Technology In Demand

Education

bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Average
New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:

$105,180
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