Art and Design


Many people dream of turning something they love, such as an art form, into a living. Creative Artists, including Animators, Fashion Designers, Game Designers, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers and Photographers are among the few professionals who manage to do just that. And because of the explosion of dot coms, designers who work with web sites are now among the hottest of commodities.

Because they often work on projects that eventually end--such as a seasonal catalog--creative artists are often staffed on a freelance basis. Freelance artists sell their skills and pitch their designs to advertising agencies, retailers, design firms, magazines, newspapers, and Internet companies.

While freelancing offers many advantages, such as the opportunity to take off large chunks of time, and the chance to work in many different environments, working on a project-to-project basis is far from a breeze. Freelancers must be versatile enough to be marketable to a wide variety of businesses and must also be shrewd businesspeople. A freelance artist's ability to meet deadlines and work within a budget is important to a company.

A strong portfolio is essential for any aspiring designer. The portfolio is a collection of the artist's best work; some artists include new takes on existing ads or logos to demonstrate their ability within a certain industry. In fact, many designers freelance while still in school in order to develop experience and a portfolio of published work.

Animation Career Profile: Multi-media artists and animators create special effects, animation, or other visual images using film, video, computers or other electronic media. They work primarily in computer and data processing services, advertising, and the motion picture and television industries. They draw by hand and use computers to create the large series of pictures that form the animated images or special effects seen in movies, television programs, and computer games. Some draw story boards for television commercials, movies, and animated features. Story boards present television commercials in a series of scenes similar to a comic strip and allow an advertising agency to evaluate proposed commercials with the company doing the advertising.
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Fashion Design Career Profile: Fashion designers design clothing and accessories. Some high-fashion designers are self-employed and design for individual clients. Other high-fashion designers cater to specialty stores or high-fashion department stores. These designers create original garments, as well as those that follow established fashion trends. Most fashion designers, however, work for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.
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Game Design Career Profile: The role of a Game Designer can include core concept and design tasks such as preparing detailed design documentation, through to researching relevant technology and pitching the game to prospective publishers and strategic partners. Game Design is not a typical 9 to 5 job. Like most creative industries, if you want the best from your job you need an all-consuming passion for your subject matter. You also need to be extremely flexible, both in your job description and your working hours. Occasionally working evenings and weekends is not uncommon. The rewards however can be fantastic, both financially and on a personal level.
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Graphic Design Career Profile: Graphic designers use a variety of print, electronic, and film media to create designs that meet clients' commercial needs. Using computer software, they develop the overall layout and design of magazines, newspapers, journals, corporate reports, and other publications. They also may produce promotional displays and marketing brochures for products and services, design distinctive company logos for products and businesses, and develop signs and signage systems—called environmental graphics—for business and government. An increasing number of graphic designers develop material to appear on Internet home pages. Graphic designers also produce the credits that appear before and after television programs and movies.
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Graphics/Multimedia Career Profile: Multimedia artists and animators work primarily in computer and data processing services, advertising, and the motion picture and television industries. They draw by hand and use computers to create the large series of pictures that form the animated images or special effects seen in movies, television programs, and computer games. Some draw story boards for television commercials, movies, and animated features. Story boards present television commercials in a series of scenes similar to a comic strip and allow an advertising agency to evaluate proposed commercials with the company doing the advertising. Story boards also serve as guides to placing actors and cameras and to other details during the production of commercials.
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Interior Design Career Profile: Interior designers plan the space and furnish the interiors of private homes, public buildings, and business or institutional facilities, such as offices, restaurants, retail establishments, hospitals, hotels, and theaters. They also plan the interiors when existing structures are renovated or expanded. Most interior designers specialize. For example, some may concentrate in residential design, and others may further specialize by focusing on particular rooms, such as kitchens or baths. Interior designers also design lighting and architectural details—such as crown molding, built-in bookshelves, or cabinets—coordinate colors, and select furniture, floor coverings, and window treatments. Interior designers must design space to conform to Federal, State, and local laws, including building codes.
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Photography Career Profile: Photographers produce and preserve images that paint a picture, tell a story, or record an event. To create commercial quality photographs, photographers need both technical expertise and creativity. Producing a successful picture requires choosing and presenting a subject to achieve a particular effect and selecting the appropriate equipment. Some photographers specialize in areas such as portrait, commercial and industrial, scientific, news, or fine arts photography. Self-employed, or freelance, photographers may license the use of their photographs through stock photo agencies or contract with clients or agencies to provide photographs as necessary.
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