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Business Definition for: Art Director

  • a person who is responsible for planning and designing the creative element for advertisements and other communications material

Additional Resources

1984 Society of Publication Designers awards - part 1
Overall Design, Gold Award 1 Publication: Nautical Quarterly Art Director: Marilyn Rose 2 Publication: GEO Art Director: Mary K. Bauman Redesign, Silver Award 3 Publication: Lire Art Directors: Milton Glaser Walter Bernard 4 Publication: House & Garden Art Director: Lloyd Ziff Cover, Overall Design, Silver Award 5 Publication: Progressive Architecture...
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Research articles 1984-11-01
New director is named at the Yale Center for British Art.
M2 PRESSWIRE-1 March 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: New director is named at the Yale Center for British Art C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28022002 New Haven, Conn. -- President Richard C. Levin has named Amy Meyers, curator of American Art at the Henry E....
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Research articles 2002-03-01
People on the move
-- Rob Conti has been promoted and Makito Nimomiya has been hired at Freestyle Marketing Group. Conti is senior art director. He joined Freestyle in January 2006 as associate art director and later was promoted to art director. Nimomiya is the company's junior art director. His education includes a degree...
Tags: bank, director, education, Marriott, Merrill, Peterson, SBA, University of Utah
Research articles 2008-06-01
Greek court acquits art director for obscene video
ATHENS AFP — A Greek court acquitted the director of an art show on charges of obscenity and an attack on national symbols, citing freedom of expression, Greek newspapers reported Friday. A video showing a woman masturbating to the Greek national anthem by Greek-American Eva Stefani was displayed at...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, director, MARKETING, video
Research articles 2007-12-14
Greek court acquits art director for masturbation video
ATHENS AFP — A Greek court acquitted the director of an art show on charges of obscenity and an attack on national symbols, citing freedom of expression, Greek newspapers reported Friday. A video showing a woman masturbating to the Greek national anthem by Greek-American Eva Stefani was displayed at...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, director, MARKETING, video
Research articles 2007-12-14
Sylvia H. Williams, director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Art, dies
Sylvia H. Williams, the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, recently died a week after undergoing emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She was 60.Williams, a scholar of African art, managed the museum's five inaugural exhibits and oversaw more...
Tags: Components, director, HARDWARE, Modems, museum, Smithsonian Institution
Research articles 1996-03-25
Dr. Roslyn A. Walker named director of National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has named Dr. Roslyn Adele Walker director of the National Museum of African Art. A longtime curator at the National Museum of African Art, Dr. Walker, 52, is the successor of Sylvia H. Williams, the former director who died last year in...
Tags: African, director, Dr., museum, Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Research articles 1997-02-17
Reed Kroloff Appointed Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art
To: ARTS EDITORSContact: Rick Loewenstein of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, +1-248-645-3110 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following a national search, Reed Kroloff has been appointed director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, effective September 1, 2007. Currently dean of the Tulane University...
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Research articles 2007-05-04
Hallmark Channel.(Programming)(Brief Article)
At Hallmark Channel: PATRICIA FOLGAR, art director, Artisan Entertainment, Los Angeles, appointed art director, Los Angeles; ADAM FARKAS, director, ... At Hallmark Channel: PATRICIA FOLGAR, art director, Artisan Entertainment, Los Angeles, appointed art director, Los Angeles; ADAM FARKAS, director, information technology, promoted to...
Tags: Hallmark, programming
Research articles 2004-04-19
Basevi, James
BASEVI, JamesArt Director. Nationality: British. Born: Plymouth, England, 1890. Education: Studied architecture. Military Service: British Army during World War I: colonel. Career: Emigrated to Canada, then to the United States, c. 1924; designer in late 1920s, and special effects director,...
Tags: CAREER, Collaboration, director, Ford Motor Co., Groupware, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2000-01-01
Microsoft Corp. Winner: Direct Campaign (More than $200,000).(Creative)(DDB Worldwide)
Agency: DDB, Seattle Campaign name: "Genuine Fact Files'' Launch date: September 2006 Creative credits: John Livengood, executive creative director; Jim Cowles, creative director; Troy Brock, art director; Brett Siemen, art director; Keith Ander Agency: DDB, Seattle Campaign name: "Genuine Fact Files'' Launch date: September 2006...
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Research articles 2007-10-22
Panel Names New Director for Indianapolis Museum of Art.
By David Mannweiler, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 15--An art museum director at Atlanta's Emory University will become the 10th director of the 118-year-old Indianapolis Museum of Art on Nov. 12. Anthony G. "Tony" Hirschel, 43, head of...
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Research articles 2001-08-15
Oscar-Winning Film Director Anthony Minghella Helps Launch Art & Technology Programs for the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
First Annual WIDE ANGLE: An Insider's View on the Art of Filmmaking Raises $85,000
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Research articles 2006-10-02
New Art Institute CIO's job a work in progress.(People)
Byline: Brandon Glenn Job: Chief information officer and vice-president of collections management, imaging and information technology at the Art Institute of Chicago, since mid-November. Vitals: 54 years old; bachelor's degree, 1974, and master's degree, 1977, in musicology, Wesleyan University in ...
Tags: director, FINANCE, Harvard University, INTERNET, job, Podcasts, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-12-18
Art world offers us new faces, periodicals, ideas
THE only certainty in the Wisconsin art museum world during 1994 was continued change. Donald Hoke, executive director of the Outagamie County Historical Society, confirmed he would leave Appleton, Wis., to take a similar job in Dallas, Texas. E. Michael Flanagan, director of...
Tags: MARKETING, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Research articles 1995-01-08
Press Preview for Exhibition 'First Look: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection' May 16
News Advisory: WHAT: Press preview for the exhibition "First Look: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection" WHEN: Tuesday, May 16 Remarks at 9:30 a.m., followed by a discussion and tour of the exhibition WHERE: National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Ave., S.W. WHO: Susan Talbott, director of Smithsonian Arts,...
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Research articles 2006-05-10
Work 9.6.04.(News)(Brief Article)
Ford Motor Co. teamed up with Conde Nast for its annual breast-cancer awareness campaign. J. Walter Thompson, Detroit. Art Director: Matt Swanson. Copy-writer: Bill Boroska. Zubi Advertising, Miami, created the Spanish-language ad right. Art director: Luciano Ferrari. Copywriter: Rosamaria Mussfeldt.
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Research articles 2004-09-06
Art event selects royalty, top artists
SPRINGVILLE -- The naming of the art royalty for 2006 is the crowning event of the 82nd annual Spring Salon and 40th Art Ball at the Springville Museum of Art last week. Bethany Barr was crowned art queen. Attendants are Erica Brown, Jennith Lucas, Kylie Moore and Mia...
Tags: Benefits, E-mail, exhibition, museum, Salon, Utah
Research articles 2006-05-04
German art historian to head Getty library
LOS ANGELES AFP — The J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural institution, announced Tuesday it chose a German art historian to head its research library in Los Angeles, which boasts an 800,000 volume collection. Thomas Gaehtgens, the 67-year-old director of the German Center for the History of Art...
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Research articles 2007-08-14
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art - appoints Andrea Barnwell - Brief Article
DR. ANDREA BARNWELL has been named director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Barnwell is a well-known author, art historian and curator. Her forthcoming book Charles White is the first book in a series of monographs on African American artists edited by David C. Driskell. Barnwell earned a...
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Research articles 2001-09-27