If you’re looking to bring your creative strategy to life but you’re not sure how, hiring a freelance art director is a great place to start. Bringing their experience from some of the most innovative projects and campaigns, art directors can help breathe life into your creatives and lift your campaigns with a new perspective. As the leading marketplace for experienced art directors and other freelance creatives, you’ll find your next hire easily with our easy-to-us platform. Find a talented art director for your project today.
Freelance art directors can help bring your strategy to life. They translate creative briefs into tangible concepts and help with brand creation, including logo, colour schemes, messaging, advertising campaigns and can give direction on video campaigns. Through their experience freelancing, they have a breadth of creative knowledge as a natural result of working with multiple clients across various industries.
Art directors help to set the artistic tone of a project using visuals to bring concepts to life. These visuals can help create a brand or come up with designs for new advertising campaigns. Some of their responsibilities include:
Our contracted rates for art directors in 2019 ranged between £280 and £550, with the average day rate being £350. For more information about the average freelance day rates, why not download our report here.
Knowing when to bring in an art director for a project can be tricky but if you feel your project needs a little something else, you may need to hire someone to help.
There are several reasons why now might be the time to hire a freelance art director, including:
Saving time — Hiring an art director will give you more time to focus on other things, as refining visuals and branding requires a significant investment of your time as well as a specialist eye. Art directors have a good understanding of what works well, so can quickly make adjustments quickly.
Bringing fresh skills — Through their experience, art directors effortlessly convey the meaning of a particular message. This is especially important if you want a complete overhaul, and you need help from someone with end to end experience of design and creativity.
And bring new ideas —For whatever reason, sometimes those lightbulb moments dry up, and you need an injection of creativity from someone with a fresh perspective. Art directors have a wealth of experience that they can apply to your business.
They’re reliable— Imagine spending hours on a design and rushing it to the printers, only to discover that you used the wrong dimensions. Save yourself the hassle in the long run and hire a professional.
Art Directors have a wide variety of skills and some of the more common skills include:
All of our art directors on YunoJuno have been manually vetted by our dedicated onboarding team to make sure they have the right skills and experience. Their own profile outlines their specific skills and experience, giving you the opportunity to review this to ensure they have the right background for your project.
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