Quality Control/Assurance?

hhp

Production Artist?
Pre-Press Operator?
(both of these two are a bit out of date)

Quality-Controller?
Design Editor?
(these are sort of made-up things)

These all sound very similar to what you are describing�

Aha! It must be Quality & Assurance Controller!

Hrant and I basically cross-posted the same thing.

'Head of Aesthetic & Creative Finetuning', maybe.?

Back in the London of the 70s, when i worked in typesetting, we called those people "Finished Artists". Not very clear language, as it wasn't the artists who were finished, but the art, but they were the ones responsible for what went to the printers.

I've also heard "Finishing Artist," or "Finisher" for short.

Thank you sirs.

I was thinking that "Finishing Artist" sounded appropriate, but I had never heard it before and didn't want to just be making something up.

The job title Mr Zimmer is asking about has always been and continues to be Assistant Art Director.

Everyone knows the Senior Art Director can't really DO anything. So making sure everything is just so has always fallen into the Assitant AD's lap. It is a curious phenomenon that once an Assistant AD gets promoted to Senior Art Director, they forget how to do everything, and become just as useless as the previous Senior AD.

In Swenglish I'd call it originalist; the one who delivers print-worthy documents to the printers.
In english I'd say art worker.

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Since you seem to be mainly involved with type I would call your position typographer or, as Fredrik says, artworker. A finisher would be somebody who finishes a job, cutting, folding, gluing &c.
Tim

In baseball you'd be called the 'closer'

:D

'art director'

;D

> I like to be the person who takes a project that is about 80% done and makes it right.

Politics - John Kerry ;-)

Also 'cleaner'

Type Design Technician

Ok, now I'm confused.

As I understood it, the title "Finished Designer" offered by Mr. Spiekermann is (was ? ) industry jargon. My thought was to translate that to "Finishing Designer" but I certainly don't want to do that if "Finishing Designer" already applies to a guy at the print shop who does something very different from what I do. Unless that guy is just a "Finisher" and not a "Finishing Artist."

(I was just thinking I'm being too attentive to too small a detail on this forum here, but then I thought better and remembered that there's no such thing as too small a detail for "typophiles" ;)

The art director I'm currently working with thinks this "Finishing Designer" business is silly and that I should just call myself a "Production Artist." But its important to me that I not be confused with someone who only does mechanical production, as my work is largely typographic. I could always explain as much on my resume, I guess...

Maybe "Finishing Artist/Typographer" ?

" I could always explain as much on my resume, I guess... "

Yes. Absolutely. Job titles are meaningless.

Hey, Zimmer. I'd take Spiekermann's advice, 'cause then you can always say "Well, that's what Erik Spiekermann called me..."

(apologies to Mr. Spiekermann)

Seriously, I avoid all titles with the term 'artist' in them, not because being an artist is bad, per se, but because it carries a lot of implications for the people we work with who aren't in our field. Though 'Production Artist' is probably more meaningful to a lot of design professionals, I agree that it's more mechanical than what you want. In the end, if you're comfortable with 'Finishing Artist/Typographer', I'd go with it.

PS: Alisa says hi.