Set Designer Career Path

Set Designer

December 22, 2012

Set designers create the world in which plays, musicals and movies take place.  Set designers are very creative people who must often call upon a variety of artistic skills to do their jobs.  Once they understand the world the director envisions, set designers usually sketch out all aspects of various scenes including stage construction, and how each scene makes use of costumes and various props.  After sketches, set designers may go on to build scale models to further finalize plans with producers, writers and the director.  They must then supervise the construction of t