Commercial Art

Ready to be creative and actually get paid to do it? With a career in Commercial Art you’ll work with designers, engineers, executives, copywriters and marketers to plan, design, and create visual representations. Your work in Commercial Art will be seen in print media, as well as Internet Web pages, interactive media, and multimedia projects.

In your Commercial Art career, you’ll use a combination of color, type, illustration, photography, and animation to create commercial art layouts that capture the attention of consumers. You’ll use Commercial Art software on computers to edit graphics and photography to meet the layout. You’ll add words to the design to capture the consumer’s interests in the product or event you’re promoting. Your Commercial Art responsibilities will also include working with printers and publishers to prepare your commercial art projects for final publication. Your Commercial Art work will be viewed in magazines, newspapers, journals, corporate reports, promotional displays, product packaging, brochures, television ads and signs or billboards.

To get into you Commercial Art career you must complete an associates degree or bachelor’s degree program. Commercial Art degree programs are offered at community colleges, career colleges, vocational schools, four-year colleges and universities. You can have your Commercial Art degree in 18 – 48 months. Your Commercial Art training will include: studio art, design principles, computerized art design, commercial graphics production, printing techniques, Web site layout and design, art history, writing, psychology, sociology, cultural studies and marketing.

You can use your talents in Commercial Art in a career at marketing agencies, advertising agencies, graphic design studios, architectural firms, print houses, webpage design companies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, television stations or movie production companies. You can also work on a freelance basis, as your own boss. Now is the perfect time to start your Commercial Art career because the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects Commercial Art jobs in increase by 10%.

Start your path to a great career in Commercial Art today. .