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What is an art director?

What is an art director?

From the course: Learning Art Direction

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What is an art director?

- Throughout this course, there will be images illustrating different points. Some are going to be examples of great work, and others are going to be funny, I hope. All of the images are intended to further explain what I'm talking about. If you see something that you think is cool, or that you're curious about, you just want to know who did it or why they did it, I strongly encourage you to look it up, and learn more about the image, and try and figure out what drew you to it. Random discoveries are really one of life's greatest joys, and you should try and do that whenever you can. One more side note. For the purpose of this course, I'm going to say art director, but depending on the organization, it might be called creative director, or chief creative officer, or just boss would work too. If more than one of these roles exist at a given company, hierarchically, chief creative officer would be above creative director, which would be above art director, but these are just titles, and…

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