Job Description

-Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment -Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products -Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform to customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends -Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches -Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics -Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type -Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design -Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts -Develop graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and billboards -Use computer software to generate new images