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Art Directors

Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual communications media, such as print, broadcasting, and advertising. Direct workers engaged in art work or layout design.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Artists and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Art and Design Workers

Formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound.

Review and approve art materials, copy materials, and proofs of printed copy developed by staff members.

Manage own accounts and projects, working within budget and scheduling requirements.

Confer with creative, art, copywriting, or production department heads to discuss client requirements and presentation concepts and to coordinate creative activities.

Present final layouts to clients for approval.

Confer with clients to determine objectives, budget, background information, and presentation approaches, styles, and techniques.

Hire, train, and direct staff members who develop design concepts into art layouts or who prepare layouts for printing.

Work with creative directors to develop design solutions.

Review illustrative material to determine if it conforms to standards and specifications.

Attend photo shoots and printing sessions to ensure that the products needed are obtained.

Create custom illustrations or other graphic elements.

Mark up, paste, and complete layouts and write typography instructions to prepare materials for typesetting or printing.

Negotiate with printers and estimators to determine what services will be performed.

Conceptualize and help design interfaces for multimedia games, products, and devices.

Prepare detailed storyboards showing sequence and timing of story development for television production.

Research current trends and new technology, such as printing production techniques, computer software, and design trends.

Desktop computers

Digital still cameras

Digital video cameras

Laptop computers

Personal computers

Sketching pencils

Tablet computers

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe ActionScript

Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects

Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Systems Adobe Director

Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Systems Adobe Flash

Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Systems Adobe ImageReady

Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

AJAX

Apache Software Foundation Flex

Apple Final Cut Pro

Apple iWork Keynote

Atlassian Confluence

Atlassian JIRA

Autodesk 3ds Max Design

Autodesk Maya

Cascading Style Sheets CSS

Drupal

Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML

Hypertext markup language HTML

JavaScript

jQuery

Mag+

MAXON CINEMA 4D

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Mobile application software

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Quark

Social media software

Tablet application software

Web broswer software

WoodWing

WordPress

Founder/Creative Director

<p>The Roadtrip Nation team head out to San Francisco, where they interview Chris Fink, product designer of Ideo Design and Tim Brown, CEO, Ideo Design. Next they meet with color consultant Beatrice Santiccioli, virtual CEO author Randy Komisar, Queen Bee of Buzz Marketing Yahoo Luanne Calvert, Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson and visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren.</p>

The Open Road

I think a lot of it is as you guys are trying to prove here is you've believe in and what you really wanna do. I see a designer come through with, beyond just has gone done a path and burned about that they now realize is the wrong one. 

Beliefs & Faith

Go With What You Believe In

Just do it with some frigging balls. many people that have this sort of milk that they sort of get washed around in you're doing that to yourself. 

Risk

Milquetoast Existence

>> You can work hard, and you can hopefully be good at what you do. that's a once in a lifetime deal. with a guy that invented a culture. and I focused on artwork. punk music was going off at that point. Ramones was the whole program. was the Clash in Montreal. gonna take cuz my parents didn't have making cottage cheese, and trying to prove here, is you really just what you really wanna do. conspire to support you if you family, your friends, and everything else. if you decide you're gonna be you decide you're gonna be an accountant. you wear it on your shoulder and the world will conspire to do it. people that have been successful in successful, successful in their life, distinctive individuals. self-confidence to have a point of view. the boonies of Vermont or Montana or artist in New York city. in what they're doing and that they'll back up. There's so sort of milktoast existence, of get washed around in the flow. doing that to yourself. at at this point and people here to do. 

Character

Confidence

Conflict

Dedication

Determination

Experience

Family

Fear

Fulfillment

Goals

Honesty

Individualism

Instincts

Passion

Struggle

Interview

Simon Woodroffe said the world will conspire to support you if you and your friends and everything else. if you decide you're gonna be gonna be a kick-ass accountant. it and you wear it on your shoulder and the world will conspire to do it. 

Support & Encouragement

The World Will Conspire

And if you look at any examples of people that have been successful in what they're successful in their life. distinctive individuals. confidence to have a point of view. the boonies of Vermont or Montana or progressive artist in New York City. confidence in what they're doing and that they'll back up. 

Success

Distinctive Individuals

I focused on artwork, bein' also punk music You know, it was all Clash, it was the whole program. I didn't have any calculated 'cause my parents didn't have My father worked in a factory and my mother was a beautician Distinction is everything. to do that, and if you look that have been successful not monetarily successful-- they are generally pretty And it's because they've to have a point of view. 

Michael Jager Highlight

The future of design and communications was about multi-discipline interaction. just doing graphics for somebody. able to make the ideas happen that were that I didn't know would work was to enough that you could convince people. trying to do well enough may feel uncomfortable, I can convince people to do it. intrigued me because it is strategic. of thought, as well as emotion. I think, of rational and emotional. really clearly, but you also gotta be what you're trying to get as a reaction. intrigued by design. 

Why Design Is Intriguing

Where does your drive come from? I just don't like to fail. anything, I mean, I did team sports. I feel like you better do it 110% and scare yourself, or don't bother. 

Challenge Yourself

The future of design, to me, is cross-fertilization of multi disciplines. really powerful stuff have to understand be able to be working on an advertising but you've got to be able to sit down working on a product like with Burton. the board engineer, a binding engineer, them about the brand and a feeling and respect for what they're doing. the dialogue is gonna be meaningful and that they should respect you as well. battles of industrial credibility than a graphic designer. elite than others, and amazing buildings, but at the same time a building, or really taken by that, visual cues that have affected and that have changed their lives. relationships with it. songs, and it blows my mind. conceptually and emotionally is unreal. one time that was as potent as that would make my life. it's cross-fertilization of ideas. happening in art and culture and design. what he wrote. 

Michael Jager

Founder/Creative Director

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Michael Jager

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My work combines:

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