Art Director Job Description
- Supervise the overall visual appearance of an art piece of scene.
- Ensure the piece or campaign is visually striking, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience.
- Make decisions about designs, colors, fonts, and style.
- Translate desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery.
- Concept with copywriter to devise slogan, logos, and campaigns.
- Imagine what the finished pieces looks like.
- Resolve conflicting agendas.
- Ensure deadlines are met.
- Resolve inconsistencies between the various individual inputs.
- Design ideas for commercial, mailer, brochure, or other advertisement.
- Devise headlines or other copy.
- Elegantly communicate the marketing message.
- Hand-render comprehensive layouts.
- Perform preliminary work on a computer.
- Supervise other art directors.
- Coordinate with production department.
- Oversee printing process.
- Work on a concept for sections and pages of a publication.
- Collaborate with photo editors and editors to coordinate what images will match up with certain words.
- Create the specific look and feel of an entire magazine.
- Design book covers.
- Manage multiple accounts.
- Review and approve art and copy materials.
- Approve proofs of printed copy.
- Attend photo shoots and printing sessions as needed.
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