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The Art Director creates the visual aspects of a specific campaign and oversees a staff to produce the related designs. Their role is to provides work direction to a team, assign schedules, coach employees, and meet art department work standards by following production, productivity, quality and customer assistance regulations. Their responsibilities are to resolve operational queries, identify work process changes, meet art department cost measures by monitoring expenses and implementing cost-saving actions, formulate art concepts, select and secure illustrative stock by forming basic layout design concepts and conducting research, produce layouts for printing by marking-up, pasting-up, a...

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  • Bachelor Degree in Fine Art
    The number of occurrences matches with Art Director in our database.
    Avg. Duration:47 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,507Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$29,378Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree in Advertising
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,399Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts
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    Avg. Duration:47 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,507Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Graphic Design
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$29,378Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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5.0 years
$72K
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3.03 years
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