What is Art Direction?

<aside> <img src="/icons/question-mark_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/question-mark_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Art direction brings clarity and definition to our work; it helps our work to convey a specific message to a particular group of people. You want to ensure your art direction is evoking an emotional response, and make your users have an attachment to it.

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Art direction shapes the journey and tells a story.

What is an Art Director?

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An art director is responsible for coordinating and supervising the work of designers, artists and other creatives who are working on the project at hand.

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“A designer is concerned with execution, while an art director is concerned with the strategy behind execution” - Phil Coffman

Step 1 - Art Director

Step 2 - Visual Designer

Step 3 - A front-end developer builds everything

For Apollo, we are doing all three:

Art Direction Example