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Nadia's Thursday, two ways

9 lessons · 24 prompts

A day in the life of an Art Director: what changes with these prompts.

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Nadia, an art director at a small brand studio.

Nadia is an art director at a small brand studio. On Thursday morning, a coffee client sends a vague note: make the cold brew line feel like summer, but not beachy. Nadia opens ChatGPT and uses the Define the Visual Concept prompt. She adds the audience, the product, and a few words she wants to avoid. The output gives her mood, color, and type ideas she can react to, and she edits it into a direction she believes in.

Next she opens Claude and uses the Write Creative Briefs prompt. She pastes the client note, her visual direction, and the list of deliverables. The draft brief comes back with sections for audience, tone, color, type, and questions for the client. Nadia tightens the language and sends it to her designers before lunch.

In the afternoon, she uses the Review Design Drafts prompt in Gemini. She uploads one logo draft and asks for feedback on hierarchy, contrast, and whether it reads as cold brew rather than soda. The notes help her spot a weak contrast issue before the client call.

Before the client call, Nadia uses the Present to Clients prompt in Claude to shape her concept story and turn the client's scattered comments into clear next steps. She finishes the day with a walkthrough at the roastery and leaves on time for her pottery class. The hour she won back goes to seeing the product in person, which makes the final direction stronger.

Before

  • Briefs take all morning to shape.
  • Feedback gets lost in long email threads.
  • Client calls leave everyone with different notes.
  • The day ends before the creative work does.

After this course

  • Briefs come together before the first coffee.
  • Feedback is clear, kind, and easy to act on.
  • Client calls end with shared next steps.
  • There is time to visit the set.

What you'll learn

  • Visual concepts: Turn a vague ask into a clear direction with mood, color, and type notes.
  • Creative briefs: Translate client requests into structured briefs your team can follow.
  • Draft reviews: Get organized feedback on design drafts before the client sees them.
  • Photo shoots: Prepare shot lists, photographer briefs, and styling notes for smoother shoot days.
  • Style guidelines: Draft style guide sections that keep materials consistent across teams and clients.
  • Team feedback: Write clearer feedback and plan more useful critique sessions with your designers.
  • Client presentations: Shape concept presentations, explain design rationale, and turn feedback into next steps.
  • Budgets and timelines: Estimate production costs and build realistic milestone schedules for creative projects.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from define the visual concept to plan budgets and timelines.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.