How Fashion Stylist Work Leads to Art Director Job - Lulu chen
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Erik: How is your graphic design education relevant in what you do as an art director?
Lulu: The traditional candidate for an art director is somebody who came up the ranks
more focused on design and layout. And, you know, I came up the ranks being on set, you
know, and logging in those hours, and I did have that advantage of being an art director
at the magazine because you play, you know, you play dual roles, and I also had the background,
so I was able to kind of bridge that. Just the experience and all the different shoots
that you've been on, you know, there has—you know, there's been good days and there's been
bad days, there's been all different kinds of talents, there's been all different kinds
of projects, there's been all different kinds of art directors, you know, having seen that,
and learned from it, you know, that was my bridge. But it took somebody really giving
me the opportunity to show that I could do it, because I wasn't a conventional candidate.
And I will always be appreciative of those people who believed enough in me to give me
that chance.
