Art Director vs Design Director
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- duhsign0
thats my 2cents anyways
- whatsup0
Can someone describe the different duties between the two different positions?
- duhsign0
Did a lot of research on this when I go the title...for a whole 3 months. it means u may be in line for a junior creative director position but they don't want your head to blow up and they want to test you out. Design director is a creative director and should be used to apply to someone directing a design company, dept, team whatever. in an ad agency a design director should be above an art director but beware, the title means nothing. the only thing that matters is what your boss makes everyone else recognize and support. from what I have seen design director is used in fashion design settings mostly and some in digital design. I would definitely have stayed at art director knowing what I do now. biggest mistake of my career.
my biggest recommendation, sit your boss down and MAKE HIM?HER DEFINE YOUR ROLE. If he won't, if they say we want you to define it and work with others in the company to operationalize your role, respectfully decline and ask to stay at our current level until there is a very clear and necessary role to be filled.
titles can be a real drag.
- gramme0
^ "You only used Number One?!? I thought for sure there was Number Two all over this."
- refunktion0
I think its a way to organize a lot of cooks in one kitchen:
At Nike, shit rolled down hill like this:VP of Brand Design
Creative Director
Design Director
Art Director
Senior Designer
Graphic Designer 2
Graphic Designer 1
Intern
- whatsup0
Many of the original designers were self-taught, simply because there was no such thing as an art or design school. However, many new areas of disciplines come about but come from other areas of expertise.
- school has been around for a long time.refunktion
- the focus is on specific disciplines that even now are emerging.whatsup
- d_rek0
Not to derail this thread but has anyone worked with any 'self taught' Design/Creative Directors? I kind of laughed when I heard this.
- Define "self-taught."luckyorphan
- self-taught = Having the practical experience, but not necessarily the skillset to execute or envision somethingd_rek
- whatsup0
How about a Director of Awesome or an Awesome Director.
- cannonball19780
if i owned a company id bill a cd as "creativity director" and watch him stew behind his nameplate
- gramme0
By the way, I've never liked the term Creative Director, i.e. using creative as a pronoun or a noun. I used to get so annoyed when I worked at agencies that would refer to developing "the creative."
It's a freaking adjective. Leave it alone.
Design Director sounds so much better imo.
- amenDeSiard
- yeahiCanHasQBN
- In the term "Creative Director," it is being used as an adjective. When people say 'the creative', they're just omitting a noun.luckyorphan
- developing 'the creative [concept][idea][work... They're just being lazy.luckyorphan
- monNom0
I've always thought of design director as the role of creative director for a firm that doesn't do writing, just pure design.
- Ladylike0
I've had both titles, exact same job.
- mudchicken0
Booooooooring
- clearThoughts0
I was just looking at some job descriptions and it said that as an Art Director you will be reporting to a Design Director and Creative Director.
But then I've seen a lot of magazines that list an Art Director above a Design Director.
I guess in a magazine the Art Direction has more to do with the photography and illustration...
- d_rek0
the black and white distinction i'm familiar with is that the art director will direct the art; meaning they will develop and determine the look and feel of a project.
A design and/or creative director will often direct the designers/creatives more logistically to keep employees on task.
Although, as gramme stated, they are typically synonymous. I think the smaller you get the more the line is blurred for an 'art' or 'design' director.
- the smaller the dick, right?monospaced
- because my dick is so big that they made me art director even though I was only a junior designermonospaced
- you are so consumed by dick this morning, mono.iCanHasQBN
- adicksaystwat?d_rek
- My dick is so big that I direct the creatives with it. Mostly from my desk, with the legs up the table.clearThoughts
- yeah, my dick was consumed todaymonospaced
- This thread is quickly going gayd_rek
- consumed by that tanning guy.iCanHasQBN
- C'mon d_rek, do dicks make you feel gay? I'm straight and I got a beej. Big deal. I'm also an art director, bitches.monospaced
- iCanHasQBN0
^ but the question is... is design art?