A professional who designs displays, using paper, cloth, plastic, and other material to decorate streets, fairgrounds, buildings, and other places for celebrations, fairs, and special occasions. Responsibilities include:

• Confers with client regarding budget, theme, materials, colors, emblem styles, and related factors.
• Plans display and sketches rough design for client's approval.
• Selects stock decorations or directs construction according to design concepts.
• May construct decorations.
• May direct and supervise workers who put up decorations.
• May design, draw, paint, or sketch backgrounds and fixtures made of wood, cardboard, paper, plaster, canvas, or other material for use in windows or interior displays and be designated Display Artist.
• May specialize in designing outdoor displays and be designated Display Designer, Outside.