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designer

designer

172 3.0
A person who makes pictures and layouts for ads or websites
  • noun
  • /dɪˈzaɪnər/
translation icon : diseñador gráfico
  • Wow, you're actually a professional sound designer?
  • graphic designer
  • layout designer
  • conceptual designer

But I'm working with poster designers, so that's all fun.

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Examples

  • And this is what Naoto Fukasawa, the great Japanese industrial designer, really said.

  • My department had one designer and two assistant designers, and I worked with all three of them.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Think about what kind of designer you would be happy being.

  • I am a designer, and you will be the face of my new line.

  • One example of this is a lack of communication between designers and end users.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Yeah, I'm one of their web designers.

  • News: 4 writers, 1 sections editor, 1 photographer, 1 graphic designer, 1 layout designer.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Kickstarter flips this model on its head and helps designers and creative artists find sponsors for their projects.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Marsha Robbins is a consultant/program designer for food service and retail food store sanitation programs.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Garth used his expertise as a designer to create a stunning advertisement for the new product.

Synonyms

illustrator
vsdesigner
39 3.2

A person who draws pictures for books or magazines

focuses on broader visual concept creation rather than just explanatory pictures
graphic designer
vsdesigner
17 3.0

A person who makes pictures and page or screen layouts using computers

is broader and covers visual concept work beyond one specific job title
graphic artist
vsdesigner
7 3.4

A person who makes pictures and page designs for posters, books, or websites

focuses more on planning visual concepts rather than making finished art pieces
commercial artist
vsdesigner
1 3.5

An artist who makes pictures and designs for ads and product packaging

works across many visual areas, not only commercial or advertising uses

Compounds

A person who makes new clothes, bags, or shoes

A person who makes pictures and page or screen layouts using computers

A person who plans and decorates the inside of buildings

A person who plans and makes special clothes for actors in plays or films

5 7.6

A substance made by chemists to copy an illegal drug and avoid the law

A shoe made by a famous fashion brand that is usually expensive and stylish

1 3.5

A handbag made by a famous fashion brand that is often expensive

A company that sells high fashion clothes and accessories by famous designers

A person who plans how clothes will look and makes them

A person who leads the team that plans how things look and work

How Experienced

senior
800 2.9
designer
172 3.0
trainee
50 2.4

Surface Forms

designer singular
designers plural

Morphology

designer = design (transparent) = design + er

Agentive '-er' applied to 'design' to form a person who creates visual concepts; meaning is compositional.

Etymology

Designer comes from design, from de- ('out') and signare ('to mark'), and shares the root with sign. So a graphic designer is someone who plans and creates the visual look of images, pages, and screens.