Occupation Atlasgraphic designer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/69bcbb0a-8d80-4ecd-b0a4-9adea2a40de2
graphic designer
Graphic designers create text and images to communicate ideas. They make visual concepts by hand or using computer software, intended for publishing in paper or online media such as advertisements, websites, and magazines.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ACEArtistic · Conventional · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic7.00
- C Conventional3.92
- E Enterprising3.43
- R Realistic3.38
- I Investigative2.86
- S Social2.16
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Graphic Designers (27-1024.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (19)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt to type of media
- adobe creative suite
- convert scribbles into virtual sketches
- copyright legislation
- design graphics
- design prototypes
- desktop publishing
- develop an artistic framework
- develop creative ideas
- develop digital content
- digital media
- finish project within budget
- follow a brief
- graphic design
- identify customer's needs
- perform market research
- respect publication formats
- translate requirements into visual design
- use creative suite software
Optional (45)
- 3D lighting
- 3D modelling
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Capture One
- GIMP (graphics editor software)
- Microsoft Visio
- SketchBook Pro
- Synfig
- advertising techniques
- aesthetics
- apply 3D imaging techniques
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- brainstorm ideas
- computer graphics
- create 3D characters
- create 3D environments
- create advertisements
- create animated narratives
- create moving images
- design greeting cards
- design management
- develop animations
- digital compositing
- draw design sketches
- edit digital moving images
- edit negatives
- edit photographs
- graphics editor software
- interactive media
- manage contracts
- meet expectations of target audience
- motion graphics
- operate 3D computer graphics software
- perform ideation activities
- photography
- publishing industry
- select artwork developed by staff members
- use CAD software
- use digital illustration techniques
- use photographic equipment
- use presentation software
- use traditional illustration techniques
- use word processing software
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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