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Definition: Art Director |
Art DirectorNoun1. The director in charge of the artistic features of a theatrical production (costumes and scenery and lighting). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | E. the agency team. . . . This group will include: the account supervisor, who oversees the work of all the people of the account, the --, the copywriter who. . . will do the creative planning of the campaign. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Formulates concepts and supervises workers engaged in executing layout designs for art work and copy to be presented by visual communications media, such as magazines, books, newspapers, television, posters, and packaging: Reviews illustrative material and confers with client or individual responsible for presentation regarding budget, background information, objectives, presentation approaches, styles, techniques, and related production factors. Formulates basic layout design concept and conducts research to select and secure suitable illustrative material, or conceives and assigns production of material and detail to artists and photographers. Assigns and directs staff members to develop design concepts into art layouts and prepare layouts for printing. Reviews, approves, and presents final layouts to client or department head for approval. May perform duties of GRAPHIC DESIGNER (profess. & kin.) to design art layouts. May mark up, paste up, and finish layouts to prepare layouts for printing. May draw illustrations. May prepare detailed story board showing sequence and timing of story development when producing material for television. May specialize in particular field, media, or type of layout. (references) |
| Formulates design concepts, selects locations and settings, and directs and coordinates set design, construction, and erection activities to produce sets for motion picture and television productions: Reads script and confers with heads of production and direction to establish budget, schedules, and determine setting requirement. Conducts research and consults experts to establish architectural styles which accurately depict given periods and locations. Conducts search for suitable locations and constructed sets. Assigns assistants and staff members to complete design ideas and prepare sketches, illustrations, and detailed drawings of sets. Directs design and production of graphics or animation to produce graphics or animation for on-air programs. Estimates construction costs and presents plans and estimates for approval. Directs and coordinates set construction, erection, and decoration activities to ensure that they conform to design, budget, and schedule requirements. Reviews budget and expenditures reports to monitor costs. May make rough drawings of design concepts. May formulate design concepts for costumes, makeup, photographic effects, titles, and related production items. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Art Director |
| Specialty definitions using "art director": GRAPHIC DESIGNER ♦ layout artist. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Art Director (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Art director for Outdoors Magazine, Saltwater Sportsman, Child Life, and Open Road for Boys. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
art director | 76 |
art director club | 16 |
art director job | 13 |
art director resume | 6 |
art director toolkit | 5 |
art director salary | 5 |
art director guild | 4 |
art director magazine | 3 |
art director film | 3 |
art director does | 2 |
art director johnny otis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "art director"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | architecte décorateur, directeur artistique, chroniqueur des arts et spectacles, chef décorateur. (various references) | |
Hungarian | műúvészeti vezető. (various references) | |
Italian | direttore artistico, creatore dell'immagine. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 美"監督 , アーツアンドクラフツ運動 (ardent, art, art theater, article, artificial, artificial intelligence, artist, Arts and Crafts Movement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びじゅつか"とく, アートディレクター . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artay irectorday.(various references) | |
Turkish | sanat yönetmeni. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-r-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: carrotier, detractor, retractor, retrodict. | |
-3 letters: adroiter, ceratoid, citrated, creditor, dictator, director, redactor, retroact, teratoid, tetracid, tetradic, torrider, traditor. | |
-4 letters: acrider, attired, carotid, carried, carrier, cattier, cirrate, citator, citrate, cordate, cordite, corrade, corrida, cottier, creator, critter, detract, dictate, dottier, erotica, erratic, rattier, reactor, redcoat, retract, ricotta, rotated, tardier, tarried, tarrier, tractor, traitor. | |
-5 letters: adorer, adroit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-r-r-r-t-t" | |
+4 letters: intercorrelated. | |
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