Art department roles · Core

Production designer

Also called: PD design context

ELI5

The head creative responsible for the production’s designed physical world.

Used in conversation

“The production designer needs the latest materials before the next art-department meeting.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Production designer” 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.