art director vs. graphic designer
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- vaxorcist0
hah!
AD's job is to go into a meeting and control the client expectations and experience and cause them to trust the process and hand off a vague set of ideas to a GD, who comes up with a product which the AD then uses his Reality Distortion Effect to convince the client to accept without any changes or "make the logo bigger" moments...
Graphic Designers are often canon-fodder in a meeting if there's no AD there to control the client....
at least in my previous experience...
but to fire all the GD's would result in slower work output by far....
- strange how this makes an AD sound more like an account exec... but that happened at one agency....vaxorcist
- dijitaq0
- graphic designers work... art directors pondersdijitaq
- this site is fucking coolAmbushstudio
- fucking scarves.zenmasterfoo
- we've all been there.... and it sucks!brandonp
- Douglas0
this explains it well:
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…
- Miguex0
- nobody uses InDesign?Amicus
- My GCD uses InDesign still. Freaking wiz.jaylarson
- this might be more 'interactive' oriented. No one uses FW but ID is still king :)Miguex
- wow looks like after 9 years im still at intern level...FallowDeer
- This has nothing to do with advertising. Flash and Dreamweaver? That's web shit, not advertising.monospaced
- im a cd and i never use xcel or powerpoint. i look at a lot of pdfs tho_me_
- The intern and designer should have powerpoint as well. Gotta make those presentations pretty!desmo
- No ppt for any of these. Flash is diminishing quickly and at least give the ECD Mail instead of Microshit Entourage.CyBrainX
- ukit20
graphic designer is very general, seems like most jobs call for a more specific skillset these days
- kirshar120
Just curious how it is in other places, two folks at my workplace were let go due to slow business, the reason they gave for picking the two they did were because they were "graphic designers" and that particular position is slowly going away......
As opposed to the three art directors we have (one in training).......
- Whoever gave you that "reason" lied to you. Either they know the truth and are lying, or not sr enough to know what really happened.nthkl
- ... Happened.nthkl
- 3 ADs and 2 GDs haha WTF?
should be 1 to 4animatedgif - if not moreanimatedgif
- kirshar12
Is there a big difference between these two titles?