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Career Details :: Graphic Designers

Description

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Draws sample of finished layout and presents sample to art director for approval.
• Produces still and animated graphic formats for on-air and taped portions of television news broadcasts, using electronic video equipment.
• Prepares illustrations or rough sketches of material according to instructions of client or supervisor.
• Develops negatives and prints, using negative- and print-developing equipment and tools and work aids to produce layout photographs.
• Prepares notes and instructions for workers who assemble and prepare final layouts for printing.
• Photographs layouts, using camera, to make layout prints for supervisor or client.
• Confers with client regarding layout design.
• Prepares series of drawings to illustrate sequence and timing of story development for television production.
• Reviews final layout and suggests improvements as needed.
• Studies illustrations and photographs to plan presentation of material, product, or service.
• Draws and prints charts, graphs, illustrations, and other artwork, using computer.
• Marks up, pastes, and assembles final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
• Keys information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.
• Determines size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy and selects style and size of type.
• Arranges layout based upon available space, knowledge of layout principles, and esthetic design concepts.

Related Careers

• Art Directors
  
• Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture
  
• Cartoonists
  
• Commercial and Industrial Designers
  
• Directors, Stage, Motion Pictures, Television, and Radio
  
• Fashion Designers
  
• Interior Designers
  
• Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
  
• Painters and Illustrators
  
• Set Designers
  

Important Abilities

• Originality
• Fluency of Ideas
• Visualization
• Visual Color Discrimination
• Oral Expression

General Work Activities

• Thinking Creatively
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, etc.
• Interacting With Computers
• Handling and Moving Objects

Important Skills

• Information Organization
  
• Idea Generation
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Active Listening
  
• Equipment Selection
  

Frequent Work Context

• Objective or Subjective Information
• Indoors
• Sitting
• Provide a Service to Others
• Job-Required Social Interaction

Related Majors

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Advertising/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Applied Art	[ add ]
Architecture/Art/Design	[ add ]
Art	[ add ]
Art Communication	[ add ]
Art Studio	[ add ]
Art Theory/Practice	[ add ]
Art/Architecture	[ add ]
Art/Art History	[ add ]
Art/Business	[ add ]
Art/Communication	[ add ]
Art/Computer Animation	[ add ]
Art/Design	[ add ]
Art/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Art/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Art/Painting/Printing/Sculpture	[ add ]
Art/Photography	[ add ]
Art/Technology Studies	[ add ]
Art/Video	[ add ]
Arts	[ add ]
Cartooning	[ add ]
Commercial Art	[ add ]
Commercial Art/Computer Design	[ add ]
Commercial Design	[ add ]
Commercial Illustration	[ add ]
Computer Art	[ add ]
Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Creative/Visual Arts	[ add ]
Design Graphics	[ add ]
Digital Art/Design	[ add ]
Digital Arts/Multimedia Design	[ add ]
Digital Media	[ add ]
Electronic Arts	[ add ]
Electronic Integrated Arts	[ add ]
Film/Art	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Fine/Applied Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Communication	[ add ]
Graphic Communications	[ add ]
Graphic Design	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Commercial Art/Illustration	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Illustration/Advertising Art	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Multimedia	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Photography	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Technology	[ add ]
Graphic/Advertising Design	[ add ]
Graphics/Fine Arts	[ add ]
History of Decorative Arts	[ add ]
Illustration	[ add ]
Illustration/Visual Essay	[ add ]
Interactive Design	[ add ]
Interdisciplinary Arts	[ add ]
Packaging Design	[ add ]
Packaging Science	[ add ]
Packaging Technology	[ add ]
Photography/Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Printing Technology	[ add ]
Printmaking	[ add ]
Product Design	[ add ]
Studio Art	[ add ]
Studio Arts	[ add ]

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