Evolving technology is adding fuel to this rising industry and thus, the scope and job opportunities are also wide and robust. One has amazing array of choices with advertising and graphic design credentials in hand. Some of the potential career options are:
- Creative/ Art Director: This is one of the senior positions in an advertising agency or a brand. Art or creative directors, head the creative team to produce quality graphic designing projects. He is responsible of the overall performance of his team and usually owns an advertising degree along with graphic design qualification and some relevant experience.
- Multimedia Designers: Film and television industry thrive on multimedia designers. From designing sketches and characters for animation movies to set and costume designing, they create as well as refine the visual. They are the ones who create graphics for computer games as well.
- Web Designers: Every company, be it a start-up or a million dollar MNC, need a website to display their services and interact with consumers. This is a much in demand job with a handsome salary tag. One needs to be well versed with the web pages, new technology trends, and layouts.
- Layout Artist: A layout artists combines text with images to produce a visual graphic layout to be published through print media. His layout and formatting knowledge is assumed to be perfect and accurate. He is also seen as a good researcher for images and ideas to create an exclusive design.
- Photo editor/ Artist: Photographers capture moments, and it’s a photo artist who turns them to look adorable or creepy. Someone who finds a soul mate in Photoshop and is a master of the editing tools makes for a good photo artist.
- Flash Designer: Flash is the new trend in the web designing world, and so the demand of a flash designer is also increasing every day.
- Illustrators: Conceptualizing an idea and creating two or three dimensional graphics that epitomize the basic idea is the job of illustrators. Technical illustrators are even more refined who create moving illustrations for animation movies, computer games and tv commercials.
