creative directors??
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- liquid
Hey,
who here is a creative director that does not know flash?or 3d?
I am curious....
- tehgee0
most cds i know barely know any of the programs they are the ide a people and make everyone thier mac monkies
- kld0
haha -so true
- honest0
should creative directors be on the ball with the latest software or know the people who are able to use them to their fullest? Stone me, but when was the last time your creative director told you to defrag your drive?
- ArtDirector0
Creative directors are more like insane managers
- kld0
I'm looking forward to working with a skilled CD, someday...
small-med deisgn shop would be nice.
- honest0
Good creative director might not end up as being a good person. he/she might be really intolerable and take all the credit for your work. i think to find a creative director who is your best friend is like finding a needle in a haystack with a very small magnet.
- tparsons0
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- loahn0
I don't think it's a creative directors job to be technical. They should just come up with earth shattering ideas
all the time!
- ********0
I think they, most importantly, need to realize the best ideas. Secondly be able to find the best talent for the team and motivate that team. Motivation of the Art Directors and design team is just as important as anything else.
Hire some super talented people, treat them as you would good friends. Inspire everyone have fun, brainstorm, etc.
I think the best ideas and execution come from more of a relaxed hanging out situation than a work at a desk staring at the computer situation.
Would be cool for an agency that has like 3 or 4 brilliant heads just roaming the planet as they wish, thinking away, dreaming, beaming random ideas and concepts to a contact at the office for further consideration. Have some protected blog like area where these roaming creatives are constantly dropping ideas for existing campaigns or new ones to pitch, and can have an exchange with other creative departments at the agency.
The office environment for an end all be all solution is not the way I think (even if the office is not-office like, laid back). Lack of structure for some facets of creative work and the creative process are just as important as having structure in some.
- tconn0
Me. I'm a writer creative director. My software is a pencil and piece of paper.
- ********0
tconn say something like:
Me. I am a writer...(pause for 3 seconds and continue) a creative director. My hardware is the mind...(pause for 2 seconds and continue) My software, the soul.
- tconn0
Good one.
- liquid0
hey tparsons,
who was that directed to?
ken
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I was just asking this because at my previous job I was elevated to creative director... and I have references for it...a full campaign I created and 4 websites.... print...etc...However, all of the CD positions that I see lately are all asking for flash, and 3d or broadcast...
I have a knack for getting good talent together for a project and bringing stuff together like the a-team.....
just cant find a position like that again...
looking to find a few startups that would outsource all their creative requirements...
- build0
I am.
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- setsolid0
yes
- rabattski0
i think the term creative director is a bit watered down and often interpreted as art director which it's not. normally the structure would be 1 CD - some senior AD's (most of the time in combo with senior copywriters) - juniors and then the creative workfloor. the
only thing a cd does on the creative level is to direct the global style of the agency, so more global than specific (job wise which is the ad's problem). so a cd doesn't really need to know anything technically, except an email app and word :)
- liquid0
thats what I thought....
only prob is that most places want to hire a person that knows all these different things....
build... you dont know flash?
- rabattski0
they do? odd. again, it could be the wrong interpretation of what a CD is, they prolly are looking for a senior AD and even most senior AD's aren't that tech savvy. wishfull thinking though and why would you anyways? you don't want the AD code some actionscript or do some 3D rendering, relative way too expensive and that's what the workfloor is for anyways. another thing most CD's are part founder and if not it most of the time is a promoted senior AD. finding a CD is normally done thru headhunting. and not by regular job application. all in all above is based on classic agency structures so it could be vastly different.
- vb_0
build... you dont know flash?
liquid
(May 22 05, 07:41)err.. he's one of the most dedicated print designers out there. whaddyathink? :)