Art Job Description
Art
provides art direction to and empowers Studio Designers, photographers, illustrators, and other external collaborators, such as broadcast producers and directors.
Art Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective art job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included art job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Work with outside vendors including production companies, photographers, illustrators, commercial printers, freelancers – as needed
Maintain a roster of external illustrators and fosters a positive company working relationship
Maintain positive working relationships with the art directors of each of the game development teams
Oversee photography, including booking of models and photographers
Work with team members to conceptualize and create visual systems, visual direction establish the brand identity/look and feel
Ensure production quality through art asset review, directing, and oversight of the production process
Designs advertising and marketing materials according to strategic plans provided by creative director (CD)/account executive (AE)
Provides all required specifications (colors, fonts, papers, sizes, ) to production department
Keeps CD informed of need to upgrade design-related computer hardware/software
Develops design direction for attractions and defines all design elements of assigned project that affect guest experience
Art Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Art
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BC, MT, ATR-BC
Education for Art
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the art job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Graphic Design, Advertising, Art, Teaching, Fine Arts, Education, Visual Arts, Technology, Art Direction
Skills for Art
Desired skills for art include:
Adobe Creative Suite
Illustrator
Photoshop
Design programs
InDesign
Product challenges in relation to overall market
Digital landscape
Photographers
Directors
Illustrators
Desired experience for art includes:
Must be able to provide a portfolio that demonstrates skills and experience
Demonstrated talent for high-caliber creative concepts
Knowledge/skills required for this position include typography, type specification, photo cropping/sizing, image manipulation, digital illustration skills, digital and print color specification
Works with the E-Commerce department in developing web creative
Bachelor’s degree or higher in a creative discipline is required
10+ years of experience developing creative sales-driving campaigns in an Art Director/Designer capacity
Art Examples
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for an art. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for art
- Maintain and update content templates to ensure accurate and efficient design production
- Communicate the quality and content expectations for the atmospheres, settings, characters, to team members using effective visual references and documents that describe the artistic direction
- Create composition and layout design for print products, such as novel covers and interior graphical assets, such as maps, graphic novel interiors and covers
- Manage external artist contracting and hires
- Review external art assignments for quality and style matching
- Give artistic feedback on all comic products
- Navigate the most common art and video toolsets to provide visual assets to story development projects
- An art test may be required if the work presented doesn’t adequately demonstrate a similar style to Wow
- Partner with marketing and technical partners to design brand-right layouts for the Web with an eye to performance and ease of use
- Manage temporary help or freelancers as assigned
Qualifications for art
- Committed to client service and a collaborative environment
- Experience with print, retail and web
- 5-8 years advertising experience in related fields of study listed above
- Bachelor’s degree or trade school degree in advertising/design /communications or art
- Proficiency in After Effects and 3D rendering a plus
- Cable or entertainment advertising/design experience or strong agency background preferred
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Our company is looking for an art. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for art
- Collaborating with and delegating responsibilities to intermediate and junior designers
- Creating and updating internal communications such as presentations and other assets
- Assist in the completion of on-site projects
- Conceptualize ideas with multi-platform capabilities in mind
- Inspire and educate junior-level staff
- Commit to solving problems across multiple screens
- Integrate user experience with video and multi-screen interactivity
- Designs book covers internally and hires, art directs, and manages outside contract designers to execute the creation of covers
- Independently brainstorm book cover concepts
- Oversee and mentor design staff
Qualifications for art
- A minimum of 5 years’ professional experience as an art editor or director
- Traditional art skills experience including ability to provide paint-over comments to contract artists
- Working knowledge of Adobe Master Suite
- Amazing creativity, demonstrated ability to generate innovative designs and ideas
- Able to work well in a collaborative team environment with an iterative design process
- Knowledge of Blizzard’s novel, comics, and short stories
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of art. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for art
- Set realistic expectations about what can be delivered and when and then follow through
- Ensure design team is clear and consistent on translating brand voice across projects and products over all platforms
- Work closely with research department (as applicable) to better understand the viewer/user and refine designs to improve the experience
- Grow the brand by supporting corporate, network, and interactive product alignment through design
- Help to establish opportunities to translate design solutions across platforms
- Actively present ideas for products and features that make our products more user centric and raise the bar on quality and excellence
- Support production tests of design elements to optimize performance and achieve business goals
- Mentor younger staff, by providing sage advice and constructive feedback
- Design intelligent, inspiring design concepts that are both uniquely creative and easy to use mostly hands-on but also with team members
- Work effectively with the project management team and develop design solutions that clearly meet given briefs and/or company objectives - timelines and budgets
Qualifications for art
- Understands core components of good story telling
- Passion for video games, movies, graphic novels, fantasy, science fiction, other elements of pop culture
- Ability to understand and follow somewhat complex verbal and written instructions and communicate effectively
- Job duties are widely diverse, and frequently require conceptualizing, planning, and problem solving
- Must be a problem solver and have a diverse understanding of different mediums and materials
- 5+ years experience as an art director, preferably in the retail, fashion, or cosmetics industry
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of art. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for art
- Create layouts and organization of information
- Translate out brand guidelines into all facets of consumer touch-points
- Mock up design on final product or placement
- Source materials and comps
- Collaborate with other designers and vendors as needed, and work independently to see a project through
- Be responsible of the Art Direction of all photo / video collateral across digital and print platforms
- Develop the strategic planning of all digital and print BTL and POS collateral
- Develop new brand tools to strengthen brand identity and clarity and ensure communications outreach
- Establish a new graphic and corporate identity aligned with Brand identity
- Identify gaps in current programming and initiatives and offer recommendations on new content
Qualifications for art
- Strong creative and conceptual vision
- English & Spanish required, (Portuguese a +)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, or equivalent
- A working knowledge of artwork presentation preparation
- Concept development and creative positioning of brand and product launches in accordance with marketing briefs
- Creative ideation of thematic, commercial catalogs/sections that best promote products and best represent branding/positioning
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of art. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for art
- Work closely with the Picture Editor to ensure quality of images and photography
- Perform final checks on all pages prior to supplying completed files to production
- Oversee and attend Fit & Well photo shoots
- Continually re-evaluate and evolve the development of the brands, under the direction of the Creative Director
- If required and subject to short notice, to be able to work late to fulfil any tight deadlines that may occur
- Oversee or execute design of any supplement/point of sale/promotional literature/advertorials/digital imagery to ensure that they are in keeping with the brands visual strategy, when required
- 2 - 4 years experience in graphic design and art direction, with a focus on fashion, beauty or related brand
- Manage a staff of designers
- Able to come up with the best creative solutionsachievable within budget
- Provide direction to designers on how concepts willbe delivered
Qualifications for art
- Thorough knowledge of Macintosh computer systems including Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, iDVD, MS Office
- Experience as a lead, supervisor, art manager or art director in AAA game art production
- Demonstrated ability to manage a group of artists in a dynamically changing game production environment
- Art sales experience in a commercial art gallery, art advisory or art brokerage
- A proven track record of meeting substantial sales targets
- Comprehensive knowledge of modern and contemporary art and the current art market