Definition of "art director" []

• The director in charge of the artistic features of a theatrical production (costumes and scenery and lighting) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Without any prior experience or knowledge of biology or genetics, the onetime art director had access to enough information to allow her to analyze unstable regions of the human chromosome and compare the human genome to that of fruit flies."
• "Newer on the scene were the two groups that had begun in the mid-1990s, during a period of mounting frustration about the general state of autism research: The National Alliance for Autism Research, which Eric and Karen London had founded in 1994, and Cure Autism Now, which Hollywood producer Jonathan Shestack and his wife, television art director Portia Iversen, had started in 1995."