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Theme Park Designer

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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Theme Park Designer

Bringing Dreams to Life
Photo by Justin in SD

What do theme park Designers do?

  • Design, Entertain and Amaze
  • Use breakthrough techniques and technology
  • Use creativity to engage all the senses
  • Let us experience something new without traveling far
Photo by chooyutshing

Skills needed

  • Engineering
  • Illustration/Conceptual Artist
  • Architecture
  • Interior Design 
  • Film/Video

becoming a Theme park Designer

  • Proper schooling
  • Work at a theme park (even if its hourly)
  • Find your passion
  • Be skilled in many different disciplines 
  • Socialize
to become a theme park designer you will want to get a degree from an art college in a field that most appeals to you. Because so many different fields are needed in theme park design you will then be able to enter the field with the necessary necessary skills.
Photo by Stéfan

Rich West, Designer

The Simpsons Attraction, Halloween Horror Nights

Where do you work?

  • As a designer you travel the country to work
  • You will be on the job site until the project is over
  • Once it is over you move to the next place
  • Moving is part of the job
Photo by Great Beyond

Top Places to work

  • Disney
  • Universal
  • Freelance
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$37,000

is the average salary for a Theme Park Designer

Mechanical Engineer Salary

GEt Involved

  • The Entertainment Designer Forum
  • Theme Park Engineering and Design Group TPED
  • Theme Park Insider
  • Screamscape
Photo by afagen