Art Director and Creative Director
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- Deks
Hi. I know this is a pretty lame question, but can someone give me a summary of the difference between Art Director and Creative Director. I get a but confused sometimes and cant seem to find a definitive comparison.
- studderine0
one takes work one steals work.
- MrOneHundred0
One is butch, the other is bitch. I just can’t remember which is which.
- dbloc0
usually creative director oversees all art directors
- industrialjoe0
Very rare that either of the 2 are very creative in anyway. Most of the time the designers are the ones that make them look good.
- hmm... i'd have to disagree with you here, but maybe i've been lucky and worked with some brilliant CD'swordsinyourmouth
- i disagree as well. every art director i've worked with was very talented.Faction18
- utopian0
Creatiev director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre…Art director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art…
- monNom0
one wears a blue shirt, the other wears a yellow shirt.
both like to shake hands.
- Llyod0
One remembers how to design, one doesn't
- when will you ever say something worthwhile, goddamn sonLloydscunt
- 2pence0
Do a search, this has been brought up umpteen times.
- Llyod0
yet nobody knows
- MrOneHundred0
I have always thought the Creative Director is the creative mind of the whole operation – shapes the creative direction of the company, but an Art Director is the one who understands the CD’s aesthetic and applies it to work on a job-by-job basis.
Then the designer actually does all the work.
- Llyod0
the way it should work is that everyone comes up with ideas and the cd whittles it down to what should be shown.
- Llyod0
but of course the way it actually works is that designers come up with some good ideas and ads rip them off, and if an award can be won, the cd steals it all
- someone give this dildo a gold star - he gone done itLloydscunt
- utopian0
The creative director is the guy who makes about $25,000- more than the art director, has a hotter girfriend, and drive an Audi A5.
- rtr0
and the account exec is the one who steals your girlfriend and pretends to know who Matisse is, drives a Caymen and then bangs the Art director on the side.
- ravi0
lloyd got it all down right.
- kezza_20
Having been both and now a CD
to quote Mr OneHundred:
"I have always thought the Creative Director is the creative mind of the whole operation – shapes the creative direction of the company, but an Art Director is the one who understands the CD’s aesthetic and applies it to work on a job-by-job basis.
Then the designer actually does all the work."I get more money than I ever did before, but I sleep a lot less.
- kelpie0
wow, some serious bitterness in this thread
- Anne Dow...neue75_bold
- crikey. i don't think our designers feel like they do all the work for no money and no credit... maybe i don't know them as well as i thought.paraselene
- ...them as well as i thought.paraselene
- who cares about the designers and why should they, being the loathsome creatures they are...neue75_bold
- Spookytim0
I can't believe this question is back again. No offense to the original poster here who obviously hasn't seen seen all the other threads about this, but it comes up about once a week it seems.
Creative Director: Sincere. Self serious. Fuelled by passion. Ego like an eggshell, all about creativity originating from the heart. Its a painful process birthing original concepts onto moodboards.
Art Director: Gollum. Blagger. Fuelled by cocaine. Skin like a rhino. All about trolling designer's and illustrator's sites for his answers. Its a piece of piss knocking up a pdf of other people's work in a wifi pub.
- NewElpaso0
in advertising.
creative director (with strategists) oversees the development 'creative' (ie the idea)
art director (with designers) oversees the execution of the 'creative' into artwork...
- this is also apt, but minus the hilarity...paraselene
- * hangs head, loads pipeneue75_bold
- meh.. i had a jaline moment :DNewElpaso
- cuccurucu0
Creative Director comes up with concept & vision
Art Director translates the concept into Design
Designers do all the work- word. industry creative directors don't do any design work at all. alot of art directors dont' either, as they have their designers do the work, unless none are hired. "Designers do all the work" haha nicely put and very truepyramd