Creative directors develop concepts for advertising materials and direct artists and writers.
Art directors plan visual presentations of a client's message in pictures and designs.
Graphic designers (layout artists) plan the style and arrangement of photos, artwork and type for things like magazine and newspaper articles, ads, books, TV ads, and packaging.
Commercial artists prepare illustrations and designs for ads and displays. They illustrate magazine and newspaper articles. Their work can involve drawing, sketching, painting, lettering, and retouching photos, making charts, designing logos.
Illustrators, including medical and scientific illustrators, illustrate articles for professional publications and books. Fashion illustrators specialize in drawings of children's, women's, and men's fashions.
Cartoonists draw newspaper comic strips, political cartoons and comic books. Animators draw a series of pictures that are put onto film to make animated cartoons.
Commercial artists prepare illustrations and designs for ads and displays. They illustrate magazine and newspaper articles. Their work can involve drawing, sketching, painting, lettering, and retouching photos, making charts, designing logos.
Production artists (Paste-up, mechanical artist) put artwork into final form and reproduce artwork and text into printed or film form. They work closely with printers and typesetters. Graphic art technicians work in all phases of printing and graphic arts, including typographical layout, lithography, photoengraving and other graphic reproduction.
Web designers combine many of the skills used by other graphic design professionals in preparing and creating graphic design material for presentation on the World Wide Web (Internet).
Product designers (also called Industrial Designers) combine technical knowledge of material with artistic talent to invent or improve products. Project designers often have BA degrees in Industrial Design, but many jobs in the field require only specialized courses at junior colleges.
Artists (Graphic Artists, Sculptors) take the ideas of the designers and create drawings and models out of foam, wood, clay, or other materials.
Ergonomists study how people interact with products and how products can be designed to be safer, more effective and satisfying.
Ergonomists study how people interact with products and how products can be designed to be safer, more effective and satisfying.
Product developers find the most cost effective methods and materials to produce the product. By examining different methods of packaging, packaging engineers determine how the product will be packaged and what it will cost.
Environmental engineers study how the product will affect the environment-how fast the product will disintegrate when disposed of, how durable it is, what materials it will be made out of, etc.
Cartographers obtain and interpret information collected by surveyors on the ground and satellites in space to make maps that graphically represent different aspects of our world.
Geographers collect, study, analyze, and organize information about the Earth's surface. They may study the politics, climate, vegetation, and other aspects of a region.
Surveyors use a variety of mechanical and electronic devices to measure exact distances and locate positions on the earth's surface.
Cosmographers locate and study celestial and cosmic bodies or structures in space. Hydrographers locate and study the movement and distribution of bodies of water.
Computer assisted cartographers collect and interpret geographic information using computers.
Geophysical prospecting surveyors study and locate the physical properties and structures of the earth. Their work may involve locating mineral deposits and investigating what impact a detonation to expose these veins might have. Marine Surveyors measure exact distances and locate positions on the ocean floor.
Designers create drawings from which patterns will be made. They also choose the fabrics and colors from which the garments will be made. A designer usually has excellent drawing skills and an eye for detail, as he/she must keep up with new trends, and textile development.
Buyers purchase the merchandise that is sold in stores and chains. A buyer needs to successfully predict what goods to buy, and must know the best sources to buy from.
Retailers specialize in the selling of products. Duties include inventory, advertising, showcasing, and pricing. A retail sales person focuses on the selling products directly to the customer. Communication and collaboration skills are necessary to match the inventory to the needs of the consumer.
Store and department managers have responsibilities that may include opening the store, hiring and training personnel, tallying receipts, handling customer complaints, and approving advertising and promotional campaigns.
Pattern makers create and cut the patterns from the designer's blueprints or drawings. Their work must be exact and according to specifications. Dyers and Finishers color and press clothing respectively.
Tailors measure, cut, construct, fit and/or refit custom-made clothing. Tailors may also do alterations on ready-made clothing.
Clothing manufacturers produce garments according to designer specifications.