Sessions College for Professional Design is hiring: Art Director in Chicago

Working with creative staff, Art Directors strive for quality, consistency, and authenticity for a brand or organziation.

Art Director

Looking for a longer term career path as a creative? An art director is a supervisor responsible for making decisions for a company’s brand and managing a team of creative professionals. Whenever you have a team of artists, designers, or photographers, you need an art director to provide strategic, high-level vision, creative management, and day-to-day judgments about what works and what needs… more work.

Art Directors: Leading the creative team

Q: WHAT DOES AN ART DIRECTOR DO?

Art Directors work in every creative industry, from advertising, to book and magazine publishing, to game development, to graphic and Web design agencies. Every publication has an art director. Every brand has one.

The most obvious requirement for the job is experience. You must have worked in design for a number of years and learned how to work for different clients, how to design for one client across many different platforms, and how to manage not just projects but other artists and designers too. Most likely, you’ll have distinguished yourself as a designer, perhaps even won some awards. Now you are ready to apply that knowledge to something bigger—getting a whole team of designers to carry out your vision, or imparting a new, consistent look to a company’s entire visual identity.

At a minimum, the art director role requires outstanding design skills and production knowledge. At higher levels, an art director is the interface between creative and business or management functions. They are often de facto project managers. They are responsible for large-scale endeavors, and so the position brings risks and rewards.

Q: WHERE CAN I RESEARCH ART DIRECTOR JOBS?

Q: WHAT ARE ART DIRECTOR SALARY EXPECTATIONS LIKE?

Q: CURIOUS HOW TO BECOME AN ART DIRECTOR?

Do you have what it takes? Here is a typical job description for an art director:

Art Director
Taste the Food – Chicago, Illinois

Job Description: Taste the Food is the leading brand for healthy home cooks. An internationally known publisher of recipes and dietary information, our brand is manifest through magazines, digital media, social media, and education programs. We are looking for an art director to provide consistent brand direction and design leadership across platforms.

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