art director
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- noun
- /ɑrt daɪˈrɛktər/
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director de arte
- The art director planned every detail of the movie's visual style.
- assistant art director
- art director and editor
- advertising art director
I am in Miami as an art director for a Google photo shoot.
- I am in Miami as an art director for a Google photo shoot.
- So the art director from that agency came over.
- And then I got promoted again to actual art director around September I think.
- Like I've had some spectacularly idiotic art directors in the past.
- You were the art director on that and Exxon Santa Monica studio.
- Greta Gerwig, Sam Lysenko, who's a he's a, he's like a production designer, art director.
- I was hired by Lou Silverstein, who was the great redesigner of the New York Times, a terrific art director.
- But it's I was still missed mixing boat as a designer in theatre and said the creator and art director in a movie.
- So he was looking at avid art director's exciting work.
Examples
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Sue was the art director of a glossy magazine; her professional life was comparatively glamorous.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tom Harrison, our art director.
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So the art director from that agency came over.
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John is the new art director.
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The company has gained a new art director.
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I have the best art director in a decade, maybe ever.
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I am in Miami as an art director for a Google photo shoot.
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I thought of Katie, who was the art director of a Boston magazine.
Fiction book (2001) -
And so I've been the art director for the whole job.
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I can't wait for Wayne's World 3 and your upcoming work as art director for the film.
Blog text (19)
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'art director' is directly and transparently built from 'art' (visual/artistic aspects) + 'director' (person who leads or is responsible), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the person who directs the artistic/visual elements of a production. This compositional pattern is common across languages and in professional contexts, making the meaning predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Art director comes from early film and magazine studios where one person 'directed' the visual side of a project. Picture someone in charge of the art, telling painters, set builders and costume makers what to do, so today an art director is the person responsible for a production's visual look.