Careers in art are expanding
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There are many art related careers that a person may choose to go into that do not involve being an artist in the traditional sense of creating works, displaying them in galleries and selling them. Design fields are the most rapidly art careers today. More than ever, our culture is a culture of images. All the images we encounter on a daily bases, from magazines, to television, to product labels have been created by people who specialize in visual arts. Many of these artists major in graphic design. Labels, advertising, business cards, and magazine layouts are only a few of the multitude of visual images these artists create. Most technical colleges offer a two year degree in graphic design, and most four-year colleges also offer a full degree in this area. A person may also major in design at a private art school, which is more expensive, but curriculum is focused entirely on art and usually the degree earned looks more prestigious to potential employers. These schools also have the advantage of offering many options as far as major that others most other schools don’t have. These major include industrial design, in which student learn to design and improve an incredible variety of products from children’s toys to medical equipment to cars, architecture and interior design, communication design, (which, much like graphic design, deals mostly with combining typography and images to communicate an idea) and illustration, which could includes making pictures in any medium for children’s books, medical journals or CD covers. Other more specialized careers include fashion design, book layout and design, and a many others.
There are also a variety of options for people who major in fine arts at an art school or another college. With a major in drawing, painting, print-making, or photography a person can also do illustration work or work at an art gallery or museum. Photography in particular is a very marketable major, with a constant demand for photographers for magazines and advertising companies. Photographers can also open up their own portrait studio. This typically takes training but just as much experience as working for a large company would. Other art careers that combine art with human services are art education and art therapy. Art education majors teach any age from kindergarten to 12th grade. Art therapists use art as a tool to help those who are psychologically troubled to express and heal themselves. There are many more options for the artistically inclined than most people think. Though the idea of the poor starving artist is seen by many as the inevitable future for art majors, this is far from the truth. Not only are there many options, many of them are very lucrative.
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| Fashion choices
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If you are thinking about going into some sort of major that deals with fashion, then you should know some things about the different kinds of fashion majors there are. There is fashion marketing, fashion merchandising, and fashion design.
Fashion marketing has a number of careers open to students who are passionate about the billion-dollar fashion industry. It combines degrees in fashion design and fashion merchandising, and students are equipped to take on fashion in either a creative or business perspective. The job of fashion marketing is to give you the power to sell clothing lines, and help you to create your own line. When being a marketer, it also provides designers to understand the needs of their target audience, and to get good fashion advice.
Fashion merchandisers are society’s trend setters. They look at the many designs coming in from top designers and decide which styles will sell best at certain stores. Most of the top fashion merchandising jobs require either your Associate or Bachelors of Arts degrees in fashion marketing, merchandising, or design. Employers look for these types of degrees the most because they know that graduates with these degrees will come prepared with the skills that they need to do the job right.
If fashion designing looks to be the most interesting, then you may want to think over the choice of school locations. Some of the fashion hotspots are in L.A. and New York, and some of the top fashion design schools are in these two cities. You will need degrees in liberal arts, and also a deep professional network for career advancement. Schools in these cities provide extensive internship and mentor programs at professional fashion design firms. These programs give you tricks of the trade, and first-hand advice of the fashion design world. Most students in fashion design emerge from programs with a complete portfolio of artwork ready to show to industry professionals.
If you are looking for a career in fashion, then these are some choices. Each is different, but you can jump from one program to another, as the most famous fashion professionals have done. It’s good to learn more about your career, and what the requirements are before considering the programs to take.
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