The Art Director is responsible for overseeing all of TBL’s art, including designs and illustrations. They will work with the Photo Editor, Layout Editors, and Web Editor to guide visual storytelling both online and in print, in accordance with TBL’s visual brand. The Art Director will provide a vision for TBL’s artistic design and how to expand upon it in order to grow the newspaper. In addition to administering illustrators and comic artists (including providing illustrator trainings and managing weekly deadlines to ensure that all illustrations are ready for print in a timely manner), the Art Director is expected to pitch weekly editorial illustration ideas to staff.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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- Attend all weekly editorial board meetings and pitch meetings. If the Art Director is unable to make any of these meetings or will be out of contact for a prolonged period of time during a print cycle, they should notify the executive editors to maintain good communication.
- Lead weekly art meetings between the Photo Editor and Layout Editors, as well as the web editor as needed, to help guide TBL’s visual brand
- Develop and maintain a vision for TBL’s artistic design, particularly in ways that will expand TBL’s art section
- Weekly print cycle duties: update pitch doc with pitches by Monday afternoon and daily progress throughout the week, pitch editorial illustrations at weekly pitch meetings, edit all illustrations for RGB and CMYK, and manage a team of illustrators (train new illustrators and complete payroll)
- Critique art designs during editorial board meetings and reevaluate aspects that could improve for the following print cycle (communication, production, quality, etc)
- Table at least three times per quarter for recruitment/marketing efforts.
Position Length: One Academic Year
Number of Openings: 1