Art Directors

Also called: Art Director, Creative Director (CD Director), Creative Services Director

Career Cluster: Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications
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:
  • Work with creative directors to develop design solutions.
  • Present final layouts to clients for approval.
  • Manage own accounts and projects, working within budget and scheduling requirements.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • design
  • computers and electronics
Communications
  • multimedia
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
Business
  • sales and marketing
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others
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
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Ideas and Logic
  • come up with lots of ideas
  • create new and original ideas
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITY

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

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Dependability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Persistence
  • Cooperation
  • Innovation
  • Achievement/Effort
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Video creation and editing software
  • Adobe After Effects
  • YouTube
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
Web platform development software
  • AJAX
  • Cascading style sheets CSS
EDUCATION


bachelor's degree usually needed SEARCH ALL PROGRAMS & MAJORS SEARCH COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $209,800.00
Median: $106,500.00
Low: $60,440.00
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