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Art department roles · Core

Assistant art director

Also called: AAD

ELI5

An art-department role supporting drawings, research, construction coordination and set delivery.

Used in conversation

“Can the assistant art director join the next art-department meeting?”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Assistant art director” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.

Sources & evidence · 3

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.