Creative Director

National average salary: £64,252 per year

Principal duties: In the field of advertising and marketing, creative directors are responsible for developing novel campaigns that draw attention to a brand. You are in charge of running a brand, keeping an eye on market trends, and working with clients to make sure your campaigns are getting the right message across. As they are typically in charge of a whole creative department, creative directors have complete control over the brand’s overall message.

Creative directors who are successful have excellent interpersonal and communication skills in addition to a keen eye for design and art. This is a specialized, demanding position with a lot of responsibility that combines your strong managerial skills with artistic confidence. While communicating effectively with junior employees, creative directors provide justifications for their artistic decisions to other senior managers

Art Director

National average salary: £44,970 per year

Principal duties: A company’s artistic layouts, composites, and designs are created by an art director as part of a team, typically in advertising or marketing. You will be managing a design team in this position and will collaborate closely with clients to ensure that the project meets their expectations. Media campaigns for marketing or advertising are the typical work of art directors. As a result, they are extremely imaginative and adept at concept and advertisement design. Good collaboration and communication skills are additional abilities that art directors find useful.

Supervising the creative direction of a new advertising campaign is one example of applying your art director skills. You think about how to shoot video, print, and online ads, as well as how your artistic vision works with the product, marketing, and PR teams. An advantage is a creativity and excellent communication skills.

Technical Designer

National average salary: £38,865 per year

Principal duties: A technical designer’s job is to assist a fashion design team in bringing their vision to life in a finished product. You are accountable for resolving design issues, collaborating with designers and manufacturers to ensure that the specifications are correct, and making sure that the finished product is suitable for the market in this position. Technical designers have excellent problem-solving abilities, a sense of design and style, teamwork skills, and project management abilities.

In order to ensure that the final product meets all design criteria, it is necessary for you to have an understanding of all product development stages. Because of the stimulating and creative work environments available, technical design is a competitive field. Utilizing your art education in a variety of projects is an excellent role. For instance, if you are working on a new line of running trainers, you will need to collaborate with the fashion and technical teams to ensure that the trainers will not only look good but also perform well.

industrial designer

National average salary: £38,279 per year

Principal duties: Industrial designers create a variety of consumer goods through design and development. The majority of an industrial designer’s time is spent designing a product’s appearance, functionality, and construction throughout its development cycle. It is your responsibility to discuss designs with customers to ensure that you meet all of their requirements.

An industrial designer uses a number of skills, including good artistic skills, a solid understanding of the technical side of industrial design, and good teamwork skills. You can anticipate working in a number of different departments as an industrial designer. To ensure the success of your vision, you can collaborate with both the marketing department and the manufacturing department.

Interior Designer

National average salary: £35,214 per year

Principal duties: Whether working in a residential or commercial setting, interior designers design a space’s interior for their clients. You, as an interior designer, combine various components to create a space that is both functional and attractive. You think about the safety of the room, the style of the furniture, how the room’s design uses space, and how the room’s functionality works with its design. Interior designers keep up with the latest trends in building materials, lighting, and decorations.

The process begins with a preliminary sketching or drawing phase during which you and your customers can agree on the project’s final designs. For instance, when designing a new office space, you sketch and talk with the company about your ideas to make sure they fit their working culture.

Senior Fashion Designer

National average salary: £34,717 per year

Primary duties: Senior fashion designers work in the fashion industry, designing clothing and accessories to take to market. Senior fashion designers are normally at the forefront of fashion trends, creating new designs for specific audiences, such as high fashion or streetwear. You take the lead on sketching new designs, sourcing fabrics, coordinating color schemes, and considering past and current trends for new fashion lines.

In this role, expect to oversee the designs all the way through the production stages. You’re able to use your artistic background and fashion experience to manage junior designers and liaise with production teams. You may compromise your initial vision to make the clothes commercially viable. You may also use your authority to ensure you achieve your design vision.

General manager

National average salary: £29,563 per year

Principal duties: Museums, public and private art exhibitions, and galleries all employ gallery managers. They are in charge of arranging exhibitions, managing works of art, and performing a variety of other tasks in their galleries. It is the responsibility of gallery managers to look after visitors and make sure they enjoy looking at the artwork. In addition, budget and account management are among the responsibilities of gallery managers for the inner workings of art galleries.

You can use social media to promote the gallery, collaborate with artists and other galleries, and network across the industry to locate new exhibitions. You might also be in charge of the gallery’s technical aspects, like painting maintenance and framing. When looking for positions as gallery managers, be prepared to face competition. Gallery managers who succeed have extensive event and art knowledge. You can talk about the artistic influences on a new artist’s painting when showcasing them.

Store Planner

National average salary: £27,418 per year

Primary duties include: In order to create an efficient shopping experience, store planners assist in the design of retail outlets, supermarkets, and shops’ layouts. In this position, you collaborate with others to organize the shop’s floor plan and introduce design concepts. In addition, you communicate with stakeholders to guarantee the successful implementation of plans. Working for large chain stores is a good place to start if you want to become a store planner. A good store planner can learn a lot about the psychology of customers and the aesthetic design of a shop.

As a store planner, one example of your duties would be to organize a new fashion line’s window display. You think about the parts of the window display that you want people to notice. The ease with which customers can move from the window display to the section of the store where the line is selling products. You might also think about the other ranges, lines, and products you want customers to see around the line in the window display.