Fashion designers help create the billions of dresses, suits, shoes, and other clothing and accessories purchased every year by consumers. Designers study fashion trends, sketch designs of clothing and accessories, select colors and fabrics, and oversee the final production of their designs.

Interior designers draw upon many disciplines to enhance the function, safety, and aesthetics of interior spaces. Their main concerns are with how different colors, textures, furniture, lighting, and space work together to meet the needs of a building’s occupants.

Other design careers:

Graphic designers—or graphic artists—plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to communications problems. They find the most effective way to get messages across in print, electronic, and film media using a variety of methods such as color, type, illustration, photography, animation, and various print and layout techniques.

The growth of the Internet and the expansion of the World Wide Web (the graphical portion of the Internet) have generated a variety of occupations related to the design, development, and maintenance of Web sites and their servers. Web Designers are responsible for day-to-day site creation and design.

MOST POPULAR CAREERS:

FASHION DESIGN

INTERIOR DESIGNER

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN

ARTISTS

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook Online: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos293.htm, http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos291.htm &http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htm

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