“When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.” ArtStillsHelpingMy OwnDesignDirectorsEditingArt Director Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!” WayArtHouseUnderstandingWonderfulDirectorsPainterArtisticColourWonderful FriendshipArt Director Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.” ShouldLooksArtArtistDirectorsExtremesShouldersOver YouArt DirectorKnuckleheads Author:Raymond Pettibon
“We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.” ArtDirectorsIdealsConventionalConformSpecificsCinematographersArt Director Author:Damian Loeb
“Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.” IfsKnowsArtDoneCharacterCultureEnvironmentDirectorsApartmentJapanese CultureArt Director Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.” IfsWantArtWinningGeniusDirectorsFellowsRingsAwardsCashRegisterArt Director Author:David Ogilvy
“In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.” ThinkingArtFactsAbleCasesTechnologyDirectorsBuiltProductionsDesignerFabulousArt Director Author:Rick Heinrichs
“A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.” ArtEndsShowsBigsWould BeGirlThreeMistakeKnownFocusStrangeDirectorsYeahBlurBig MistakeIncorporatingArt Director Author:Deborah Turbeville
“I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"” KnowsKindArtSaidTwoBookUseWantedJobsMovingArtistGuySidesCompanyNew YorkOne DayDirectorsComputerBoxesHeavyBoardsDepartmentReviewsLunchPublishingBostonJacketsMacsBook CoversArt Director Author:Biz Stone
“I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.” YearsArtLeftFeltTakenFiveDirectorsYears AgoTownsPhotographPhonesMagazinesInterviewsFive YearsKeep GoingBobGreat ArtColumnsWarholArt Director Author:Bob Colacello
“Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.” DoeArtHelpingFilmDesignDirectorsPressesProductionsProducersDigitalPublishersPublicityBrowsAussiesMagsArt Director Author:Deborah Smith