Design and Fine Arts
3D Animator
A 3D Animator interprets concept art into three-dimensional realization and create moving images using digital models via CGI software. They may be asked to create animation and special effects for film, television, video games, advertisements, websites, etc. Animation is the creation of a virtual world in which everything must be visualized and created from pure imagination. The 3D Animator brings an imagined universe and the characters that inhabit it to life. Everything within frame has scope, weight and meaning. Animators need to be able to visualize new worlds into being.
3D Modeler
A 3D Modeler creates virtual worlds and characters. They breathe life into sketches and concept art. They work in a team with lots of other talented artists, engineers and programmers. |
3D Texturing & Lightning Artist
Texture Artists specialize in creating the textures of 3D animated objects. They require a biological understanding of skin in humans & animals, as well as knowledge of textiles, geographic elements, architectural finishes, landscapes, etc. Gaming Texture Artists work closely with modelers and shading/lighting technical directors to create the best possible elements for the game universe.
Accessory Designer
An accessory designer is generally responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and creating designs of jewelry pieces, handbags, hats, belts, gloves, scarves and other items that will be used to compliment clothing apparels. |
Animation Designer
Animation designers work with clients to create 2-D and 3-D images. These images can be texts, characters, logos, or objects. The key component is that these images move on the screen. |
Animator
Animators use computers and other techniques to create moving images that tell stories or provide information. |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulate moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. |
Automobile Designer
Automobile Designers design the appearance, the components, and the ergonomics of automobiles and other road vehicles, which may include vans, trucks, motorcycles, and buses. Most commonly, automobile designers are industrial designers with an art background and creative sensibility. Other professions under Automobile Design are Vehicle Interior Designer, Vehicle Exterior Designer, Vehicle Accessory Designer and Transportation system architect.
Caricaturist
A caricaturist is an illustrator or cartoonist – but with a twist. Before creating a drawing or sketch, a caricaturist will typically look at a person or object and determine which features are somewhat unusual. These features will usually be the focal point of the caricaturist’s work. They create artistic parodies in an exaggerated manner.
Cartoonist
A cartoonist (also comic strip creator, comic book artist, graphic novel artist, or comic book illustrator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists include the artists who handle all aspects of the work and those who contribute only part of the production.
Ceramic Designer
A ceramic designer or ceramist designs porcelain, stoneware and earthenware based potteries, tiles, bricks, Jewellery etc. Ceramist is more of an artist who works on his creativity for designing ceramics products including decorative painting, calligraphy etc.
Character Designer
A character designer (or character artist) creates the entire concept, style, and artwork of a character from scratch. This often includes a deep look into the character’s personality to develop a visual idea of the character’s physical features. |
Communication Designer
Communication designers primarily create visual messages for clients. These professionals utilize computer programs to artistically design products for businesses or companies. These creations could be used on websites or print materials. Communication designers could collaborate with web designers or animators to aid in the delivery of those original designs. Communications designers may have varying roles, including graphic designer or creative director. |
Concept Artist
Concept art is used to visualize ideas so that modelers, animators, and VFX teams can make these ideas ready for production. The artist must bring these ideas to life through their artwork. Concept artists need to know design and how to create a design that blends well with any creative project. They create visual images of ideas for use in areas such as animation, comic book illustration, gaming, advertising, print, and many others. |
Couturier
A couturier is an establishment or person involved in the clothing fashion industry who makes original garments to order for private clients. A couturier may make what is known as haute couture.
Creative Director
A creative director is a vital role in all of the arts and entertainment industries and can be seen as another element in any product development process. The creative director may also assume the roles of an art director, copywriter, or lead designer. The creative director is known to guide a team of employees with skills and experience related to graphic design, fine arts, motion graphics, and other creative industry fields. Some example works can include visual layout, brainstorming, and copywriting. |
Design Consultant
Design consultants, often called interior designers, design spaces large and small – from rooms in houses to hotels to airports. The responsibilities of the Design Consultant include evaluating client needs, developing products and prototypes, creating aesthetically pleasing interior spaces, or creating new fashions. To be a successful Design Consultant, you should have a good working knowledge of computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Design Director
Design directors work with creative teams to design and produce the visual layout for a variety of media, including magazines and websites. They work in a wide range of creative fields, such as advertising, marketing, interior design, and entertainment.
Design Manager/Consultant
A Design Manager is responsible for coordinating the design work and gels the team involved in the entire construction process, right from the work of design thinking team, architects and the planning phase, to the studio work and the final construction. Design management is a business discipline that uses project management, design, strategy, and supply chain techniques to control a creative process, support a culture of creativity, and build a structure and organization for design.
Digital Artist
An artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. In an expanded sense, “digital art” is contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media. |
Digital Sculptor
An expert in Digital sculpting. Digital Sculpting, also known as sculpt modeling or 3D sculpting, is the use of software that offers tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. |
Exhibition Designer
Exhibition designers are responsible for the design and layout of shows and exhibitions including Public Exhibitions like the Ideal Home Show and Chelsea Flower Show, Trade and Industry Exhibitions, Air shows and other outdoor events, Conferences, Displays and Exhibitions for Museums, Galleries and local businesses. Designers need to communicate their client’s concepts and image to visitors as they pass through the exhibition.
Fashion blogger
Fashion bloggers have a point of view, a certain taste and a unique way of presenting and documenting fashion – whether visual or written for Social Media or Print Media. Fashion blogs cover the fashion industry, clothing, and lifestyle. |
Fashion Curator
A Fashion Curator is a person who researches and presents, with the help of various media, clothing and other items of interest to those interested in fashion. |
Fashion Director
Unlike Fashion Designers, Fashion Directors or Coordinators do not design clothes, but design concepts. They define an overarching fashion vision, for a department store or a Fashion Magazine where they help them translate their business objectives – its target customers, marketing plan and messaging – into a cohesive fashion motif. |
Fashion Illustrator
A Fashion Illustrator creates clothing designs by hand or with computer programs pertaining to the fashion industry.
Fashion Journalist/Critic
Fashion journalists have a passion for both the latest clothing trends and the written word. Read on to learn more about this career field, including job duties and employment prospects. As a fashion journalist, you are primarily responsible for reporting on the latest fashion designs or trends. This can involve reporting on fashion shows or similar events in the field. Along with knowledge regarding the fashion industry, you’ll need exemplary writing skills.
Fashion Stylist
Fashion stylists are responsible for crafting and coordinating garments and accessories to create outfits for a client. They choose garments and accessories for models, actors, or other clients. Furthermore, fashion stylists may dress mannequins or clients for photo shoots and retail store displays. They collaborate with hair stylists, makeup artists, fashion designers, and fashion photographers. |
Fashion Technologist
A Fashion Technologist works with a variety of fabrics, both man-made and natural fibers, as well as leather, fur, metals and plastics. As a technologist, you’ll source fabrics or textiles that are fit for purpose and carry out quality control tests. You’ll work on the development of products, improving production efficiency and quality, while liaising with those involved in the production process. The textile and clothing industries are closely linked, and end products range widely from clothing to household and industrial textiles. |
Fashion/Apparel Designer
Fashion/Apparel designers study trends and sketch the initial clothing or accessory design. Fashion designers either design haute couture or ready-to-wear clothing. Their job is to envision and develop apparel that is both visually beautiful and useful. They are on the lookout for a variety of designs, fabrics, patterns, textures, colors, and trimmings to include in a clothing line. |
Film & Video Editor
Film and video editors use technical software to construct promotional or artistic productions from footage shot by camera operators. Editors work with directors and producers to determine which material is most captivating for their audience and piece together scenes. The editing process involves trimming footage down into segments, marking frames for audio and organizing raw footage into a seamless and polished final product.
Film and Video Communication Designer
Film and Video Communication Designers are fluent in the conception and production of short films on a range of educational, cultural, social, entertainment and marketing communication needs.
Fine Artist
Film and Video Communication Designers are fluent in the conception and production of short films on a range of educational, cultural, social, entertainment and marketing communication needs.
Footwear/Shoe Designers
Footwear/Shoe Designers are in charge of creating innovative and functional designs for shoes as well as other footwear. Footwear design is a universe unto itself, including everything from high-end fashion shoes to athletic shoes, children’s shoes to catwalk shoes. |
Furniture Designer
Furniture Designers sketch and create prototypes and models for production. They may use computer-aided design (CAD) programs to develop and modify their models prior to creation. They specialize in designing furniture for manufacturers. They design couches, chairs, tables, shelves, and decorative accents for furniture pieces. They have knowledge of design trends, competitive prices and the ability to meet specific needs of manufacturers and other clients.
Game Designer
A Game Designer is the creative force behind the development of a video game. They are the originator of the game concept and will develop it through to its final release. Game Designers author the storyline, writing the plot points, character development, and game objectives that drive the game.
Game Developer
A Game Developer could be a programmer, a sound designer, an artist, a designer or many other roles available in the industry. Game Development can be undertaken by a large Game Development Studio or by a single individual.
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They develop the overall layout and production design for advertisements, brochures, magazines, and corporate reports.
Industrial Designer
Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and toys. They combine art, business, and engineering to make products that people use every day. Industrial designers focus on the user experience in creating style and function for a particular gadget or appliance.
Interior Designer
Interior designers make interior spaces functional, safe, and beautiful by determining space requirements and selecting decorative items, such as colors, lighting, and materials. They read blueprints and are aware of building codes and inspection regulations. They Primarily Deal with interior decoration of a room or building.
Jewelry Designers
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Designers handle all types of materials and stones to produce unique and sophisticated works of wearable art. They have architectural as well as functional knowledge of different material, composition, fabrication techniques, wearability as well as market trends. |
Knitwear Designer
Knitwear Designers are the experts in weaving looms, experimenting with color in the dye lab, and constructing garments with the latest knit technology.
Leather Designer
Leather designers design a variety of leather items and accessories, including belts, caps, and more.
Multimedia Artist
A multimedia artist work with a wide variety of digital media in addition to film, video, and traditional visual art media such as paints, pastels, watercolors, and so forth. Some artists work with software which is designed to be used by members of the art community, while others repurpose software or even design their own.
Photographer/Photo Journalist
Photographers utilize their creativity and composition skills alongside their technical expertise to capture photographs that tell a story or document an event. The majority of today’s photographers work with digital cameras and editing software to capture subjects in commercial-quality images. Some travel to a location to shoot an event or scenery, while others have their own studios for portraits, commercial shoots or artistic work.
Product Designer
Product Designers use their sound technical knowledge and design abilities to improve or enhance a product’s current appearance and function. |
Production Designer
Production designers are responsible for the visual concept of a film, television or theatre production. They identify a design style for sets, locations, graphics, props, lighting, camera angles and costumes, while working closely with the director and producer. |
Sculptor
A sculptor is a highly creative fine artist who develops ideas for sculptures or statues, and makes them come to life in three-dimensional form by joining or molding materials together. Sculptors typically work with hard materials like stone, marble, glass, metal, wood or ice.
Social Media Manager
Social Media Managers are in charge of representing a company across social channels as the sole voice of the brand. They respond to comments, compile campaigns and create content. These experts provide organizations with the guidance needed to enhance their online presence. With clear goals like: “improve website traffic” or “optimize brand awareness,” social media managers grow your business through social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. A decade ago, this role was non-existent. Now, more companies embrace social media for customer acquisition, and social management is often essential.
Spatial Designer
Interior and spatial designers are involved in the design or renovation of internal spaces, including structural alterations, furnishings, fixtures and fittings, lighting and color schemes.
Textile Designer
Textile designers create two-dimensional designs that can be used, often as a repeat design, in the production of knit, weave and printed fabrics or textile products. Working in both industrial and non-industrial locations, they often specialise or work in a specialist context within the textile industry.
Toy Designer
A Toy Designer conceives and implements ideas for toys. They are typically inspired by imagination or the observation of another toy or product. A toy designer may be an independent inventor or contractor or work for a small or large toy manufacturer.
UI Artist
The UI Artist work closely with the game director and lead UX to design the look and feel of the User Interface in games as well as help to establish the usability strategies. Additionally, the UI Artist is responsible for conceptualization, creation and implementation of art assets.
Urban Designer
An Urban Designer is responsible for how land is used within an urban area. They may focus on the development of new residential housing to accommodate for population growth, and they also have to determine needs such as transportation and other services.
UX Artist
A UX designer is a technical role that is responsible for enhancing customer satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure associated with a product in a way that is attractive and convenient for users.
UX Designer
UX designers make websites, mobile applications, software or video games easier to navigate and more intuitive for users to interact with. They study and evaluate how people feel about a particular system and design their product to cater to the needs of the user. They also analyze the specific components of the system such as usefulness, value, credibility and accessibility.
Visual Communication Designer
Visual communications designers are specialized graphic designers that use graphics software applications to create visual design elements for publishers, website developers and other multimedia companies. Companies then use these materials on their websites, print materials, packaging and other visual media.
Visual Merchandiser
Visual merchandisers use their design skills to help promote the image, products and services of businesses and other organizations.