National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) 2006
- F - Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
- F1 - Technical Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
- F14 - Creative Designers and Craftspersons
F141 - Graphic Designers and Illustrators
Graphic designers conceptualize and produce graphic art and visual materials to effectively communicate information for publications, advertising, films, packaging, posters, signs and interactive media such as Web sites and CD-ROMs. They are employed by advertising and graphic design firms, by establishments with advertising or communications departments and by multimedia production companies, or they may be self-employed. Graphic designers who are also supervisors, project managers or consultants are included in this unit group. Illustrators conceptualize and create illustrations to represent information through images. They are almost solely self-employed.
Example Titles
- 2D animation artist
- 2D animator
- 3D animation artist
- 3D animator
- advertising art director
- advertising art supervisor
- advertising artist
- advertising designer
- advertising illustrator
- advertising layout designer
- animated cartoon artist
- animated cartoon artist - visual arts
- animated cartoon colourist
- animation artist
- animation layout designer
- animator - animated films
- animator, graphic design and illustration
- art layout designer
- artist, storyboard
- artistic illustrator
- assistant animator - animated films
- background artist
- bank note designer
- biological illustrator
- business forms designer
- calligrapher
- calligraphic artist
- caricaturist
- cartoon film artist
- cartoonist
- cartoonist sketch
- catalogue illustrator
- cell animator
- character animator
- chief, advertising illustrator
- colour artist - cartoons
- colourist - cartoons
- commercial artist
- commercial design artist
- commercial designer
- communication designer
- computer animator
- computer graphics specialist
- cover designer
- cover page illustrator
- cybergraphic designer
- designer, form layouts
- digital animator - artist
- editorial cartoonist
- electronic games designer
- fashion illustrator
- form layout designer
- forms designer
- graphic artist
- graphic arts room supervisor
- graphic design and illustration animator
- graphic designer
- graphic designer - multimedia
- graphic designer - multimedia, interactive or new media
- graphic designer and layout artist
- graphic designer, Web
- illustrator
- illustrator and graphic designer
- interactive media designer
- Internet graphic designer
- layout artist
- layout designer
- layout designer, animation
- litho artist
- medical illustrator
- multimedia design specialist
- multimedia designer
- multimedia illustrator
- multimedia instructional designer and scriptor
- multimedia products designer
- multimedia products designer-ideaman / woman
- new media graphics designer
- newspaper illustrator
- package designer
- page designer
- paper securities designer
- pictographist
- political caricaturist
- political cartoonist
- poster artist
- registered graphic designer (RGD)
- RGD (registered graphic designer)
- scientific illustrator
- sign designer
- sports cartoonist
- storyboard artist
- supervisor, advertising art
- supervisor, graphic arts room
- title artist
- wallpaper colourist
- wallpaper designer
- Web designer - graphic design
- Web graphic designer
- Web page designer
Exclusion
- Interior designers (See F142 Interior Designers)
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