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A professional who creates and designs graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, advertising, or cosmetic on manufactured materials and packaging. Responsibilities include:
* Receives assignment from customer or supervisor.
* Studies traditional, period, and contemporary design styles and motifs to obtain perspective.
* Reviews marketing trends and preferences of target and related markets.
* Integrates findings with personal interests, knowledge of design, and limitations presented by methods and materials.
* Creates, draws, modifies, and changes design to achieve desired effect.
* Confers with customer or supervisor regarding approval or desired changes to design.
* May be required to have specialized knowledge of material designed.
* May prepare original artwork and design model.
* May perform related duties, such as fabricating silk screens, drawing full size patterns, or cutting stencils.
* May work with specific items, such as signs, packaging, wallpaper, ceramics, tile, glassware, monograms, crests, emblems, or embroidery.
* See industrial designer for workers who design both product form and associated graphic materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops basic presentation approaches and directs layout design and copy writing for promotional material, such as books, magazines, newspapers, television, posters, and packaging. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews materials and information presented by client and discusses various production factors to determine most desirable presentation concept.
* Confers with heads of art, copy writing, and production departments to discuss client requirements and scheduling, outline basic presentation concepts, and coordinate creative activities.
* Reviews and approves art and copy materials developed by staff and presents final layouts to client for approval.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws animated cartoons for use in motion pictures or television. Responsibilities include:
* Renders series of sequential drawings of characters or other subject material which when photographed and projected at specific speed becomes animated.
* May label each section with designated colors when colors are used.
* May create and prepare sketches and model drawings of characters.
* May prepare successive drawings to portray wind, rain, fire, and similar effects and be designated Cartoonist, Special Effects.
* May develop color patterns and moods and paint background layouts to dramatize action for animated cartoon scenes and be designated Cartoon-Background Artist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of design, illustration, photography, pasteup, and typography personnel to prepare advertisements for publication, and supervises workers engaged in pasting up advertising layouts in art department or studio. Responsibilities include:
* Determines arrangement of art work and photographs and selects style and size of type, considering factors such as size of advertisement, design, layout, sketches, and method or printing specified.
* Submits copy and typography instructions to printing firm or department for typesetting.
* Reviews proofs of printed copy for conformance to specifications.
* Assigns personnel to mount printed copy and illustration on final layouts, coordinating assignments with completion of art work to ensure that schedules are maintained.
* Writes instructions for final margin widths and type sizes, and submits layout for printing.
* Examines layout proofs for quality of printing and conformance to layout.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops advertising displays for window or interior use and supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in laying out and assembling displays. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with advertising and sales officials to ascertain type of merchandise to be featured and time and place for each display.
* Develops layout and selects theme, colors, and props to be used.
* Oversees requisitioning and construction of decorative props from such materials as wood, plastics, paper, and glass.
* Plans lighting arrangement and selects coloring medium.
* May design store fixtures.
* May prepare sketches or floor plans of proposed displays.
* May develop merchandise displays at special exhibits, such as trade shows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs displays, using paper, cloth, plastic, and other material to decorate streets, fairgrounds, buildings, and other places for celebrations, fairs, and special occasions. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with client regarding budget, theme, materials, colors, emblem styles, and related factors.
* Plans display and sketches rough design for client's approval.
* Selects stock decorations or directs construction according to design concepts.
* May construct decorations.
* May direct and supervise workers who put up decorations.
* May design, draw, paint, or sketch backgrounds and fixtures made of wood, cardboard, paper, plaster, canvas, or other material for use in windows or interior displays and be designated Display Artist.
* May specialize in designing outdoor displays and be designated Display Designer, Outside.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, designs, and furnishes interior environments of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with client to determine architectural preferences, purpose and function of environment, budget, types of construction, equipment to be installed, and other factors which affect planning interior environments.
* Integrates findings with knowledge of interior design and formulates environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity, selling merchandise, or improving life style of occupants.
* Advises client on interior design factors, such as space planning, layout and utilization of furnishings and equipment, color schemes, and color coordination.
* Renders design ideas in form of paste ups, drawings, or illustrations, estimates material requirements and costs, and presents design to client for approval.
* Selects or designs and purchases furnishings, art works, and accessories.
* Subcontracts fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.
* May plan and design interior environments for boats, planes, buses, trains, and other enclosed spaces.
* May specialize in particular field, style, or phase of interior design.
* May specialize in decorative aspects of interior design and be designated Interior Decorator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs engraving plate for printing government securities, such as currency, stamps, and bonds, according to preliminary drawings and knowledge of engraving and printing techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Examines preliminary sketch of design from government agency desiring to issue new or modified design.
* Modifies design to conform with technical characteristics and limitations of reproduction, engraving, and printing equipment and to introduce design elements to discourage counterfeiting, using drawing instruments.
* Selects or suggests colored inks pleasing to eye, consistent with dignity of security and need to discourage counterfeiting.
* Confers with representatives of issuing agency to obtain design approval.
* May originate designs and design suggestions for securities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who originates designs for fabrication of cloth, specifying weave pattern, color, and gauge of thread, to create new fabrics according to functional requirements and fashion preferences of consumers. Responsibilities include:
* Develops new ideas for fabrics, utilizing knowledge of textiles and fashion trends.
* Consults with technical and merchandising staff to obtain design ideas, and to estimate consumer acceptance of new types of fabrics.
* Sketches designs for patterns on graph paper, using water colors, brushes, pens, and rulers, or prepares written instructions to specify details, such as finish, color, and construction of fabric.
* Examines fabricated sample on loom and modifies design as required.
* May be designated according to product designed as Rug Designer; Woven-Label Designer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes fashion trends and predictions, confers with sales and management executives, compares leather, fabrics, and other apparel materials, and integrates findings with personal interests, tastes, and knowledge of design to create new designs for clothing, shoes, handbags, and other accessories.
* Sketches rough and detailed drawings of apparel and writes specifications describing factors, such as color scheme, construction, and type of material to be used.
* Confers with and coordinates activities of workers who draw and cut patterns and construct garments to fabricate sample garment.
* Examines sample garment on and off model and modifies design as necessary to achieve desired effect.
* May draw pattern for article designed, using measuring and drawing instruments.
* May cut patterns.
* May construct sample, using sewing equipment.
* May arrange for showing of sample garments at sales meetings or fashion shows.
* May attend fashion and fabric shows to observe new fashions and materials.
* May be identified according to specific group designed for, such as men, women, or children or areas of specialization, such as sportswear, coats, dresses, suits, lingerie, or swimwear.
* May design custom garments for clients and be designated Custom Garment Designer.
* May conduct research and design authentic period, country, or social class costumes to be worn by film, television, concert, stage, and other performers and be designated Costume Designer.
* May design, fabricate, repair, and sell leather articles and be designated Leather Crafter.
* May design, copy, or modify clothing accessories and be designated according to article designed as Handbag Designer; Hat Designer; or Shoe Designer.
Industry:Professional careers
