A production artist is a technical and creative position in a creative profession. Production artists work closely with the designer and art director to execute the design. What distinguishes “production art” from design is opportunities to utilize prepress knowledge into creativity and design training in the work involved.
Skill requirements for a production artist are creative, print production, and working knowledge in using art software of creative industries. This position requires an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-press and printing standards through variety of methods. Requires more specific knowledge than gathering digital assets and exporting files to standardized image file formats or page description languages such as Adobe Portable Document Format.
