Creative Director
Lets start at the top and work down. Art directors, or Creative Directors
are responsible for a creative team that may design work for magazines,
television, advertising graphics, websites, or on packaging. A creative
team can consist of layout artists, graphic designers, photographers,
copywriters, and menial staff to do the work. An Art directors job is
to make sure that each of these workers do not slack off down the pub
and complete their work to a deadline and to the client's needs. Art
directors also make major decisicions along the lines of should the
background be slate grey or cobalt blue, issuing dictates and changing
their mind several days after a deadline has passed - leaving co-workers
resolutely glum about their position in the grand scheme of things.
Art directors will inevitably have come from some kind of marketing
or sales background and need no prior graphic design knowledge or skill.
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Creative
Graphic Design Specializing
in Logo Design, Design for Print, Packaging Design, Advertising
Graphics, Exhibition Displays and Website Design.
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Senior Designer
A Senior Designer is mainly concerned with the visual aspects of a company
and will probably have been promoted on the basis that she is fun and
a 'great team player' (despite this being far from the case). A Senior
Designer will usually insist on having a larger widescreen monitor than
the rest of the team which will be decorated variously with fluffy pink
bits marketing people send through on a daily basis. A Senior Designer
will be involved in the elements of a company’s look such as business
cards, stationery, packaging design, media advertising graphics, promotional
design, and sticking up pictures of topless 'hunks'.
Graphic Designer
The job of a Graphic Designer is to provide a new and exciting way to
express the key information of a company or product through a dynamic
image or use of typography. Graphic Designers take the scant information
given to them by the client and using the internet to scab some free
clip art, fashion their own ripped off logo designs in order to fleece
the client for all they are worth.
Layout Artists and Artworkers
The engine room of the design world. These scumbags have been buried
away with their dusty macs for decades, remorselessly churning out pages
and layouts. Inevitably some clueless muppet will send over a 100 page
brochure layed out in microsoft word and it will be the Artworkers thankless
task to make it publishable. They will need to recognise a font at 50
yards, be able to colour correct the dreariest of images and take a
good bollocking every now and again to keep them on their toes. The
Artworker must have the ability to design magazines, design brochures,
design flyers, design books and design posters. He harbours murder fantasies.
Illustrators
Illustrators generally speaking will have long greying hair and be influenced
by prog rock. Working from home among the dungeon and dragonns figurines
and manga comics they will attempt to put their own unique spin on whatever
brief they are given. What you will be presented with is a semi clad
girl with oversized boobs. You will have waited several weeks for this.
You will never learn from previous mistakes.
Web Designers
Web designers create the pages, layout, and graphics for web pages,
they will be technically minded to the point of absurdity. They will
insist on using c++ coding language to impress other geeks and will
beaver away doing whatever it is geeks do for hours on end. Web designers
also design and develop the navigation tools of a site which will for
design websites involve tiny text that makes your eyes bleed. Web designers
are far too clever for their own good and should never be encouraged.
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