Classification codes for a graphic design studio

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning, designing, and managing the production of visual communication in order to convey specific messages or concepts, clarify complex information, or project visual identities. These services can include the design of printed materials, packaging, advertising, signage systems, and corporate identification (logos). This industry also includes commercial artists engaged exclusively in generating drawings and illustrations requiring technical accuracy or interpretative skills. Illustrative Examples: Commercial art studios Corporate identification (i.e., logo) design services Independent commercial or graphic artists Medical art or illustration services Graphic design consulting services Cross-References.

Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and auctioneering services, on a commission or fee basis. Auctions of used cars and agricultural commodities, such as livestock and produce, are classified in Wholesale Trade. Agents and brokers for authors and nonperforming artist Apparel pressing service for the trade Appraisers, except real estate appraisers Arbitration and conciliation services Artists' agents and brokers, except performing artists Auctioneering service on a commission or fee basis Authors' agents and brokers Automobile recovery service Automobile repossession service Automobile shows, flower shows, and home shows: promoters of Bartering services for businesses Batik work (handprinting on textiles) Bondspersons Bottle exchanges Bronzing baby shoes Business brokers (buying and selling business enterprises) Charge account service (shopping plates) collection by individual Check validation service Cloth: cutting to length, bolting, or winding for textile distributors Contractors' disbursement control Convention bureaus Convention decorators Copyright protection service Correct time service Cosmetic kits, assembling and packaging Cotton inspection service, not connected with transportation Cotton sampler service Coupon redemption service, except trading stamps Credit card service (collection by individual firms) Decoration service for special events Demonstration service, separate from sale Directories, telephone: distribution on a contract or fee basis Divers, commercial Drafting service, except temporary help Drawback service, customs Drive-a-way automobile service Embroidering of advertising on shirts, etc. Engrossing, e.g., diplomas and resolutions Exhibits, building of: by industrial contractors Field warehousing, not public warehousing Filling pressure containers (aerosol) with hair spray, insecticides, etc. Fire extinguishers, service of Firefighting service, other than forestry or public Flagging service (traffic control) Floats, decoration of Florists' telegraph service Folding and refolding service: textile and apparel Fundraising on a contract or fee basis Gas systems, contract conversion from manufactured to natural gas Handtool designers Handwriting analysis Hosiery pairing on a contract or fee basis Hotel reservation service Identification engraving service Inspection of commodities, not connected with transportation Interior decorating consulting service, except painters and paper Interior designing service, except painters and paper hangers Inventory computing service Labeling bottles, cans, cartons, etc. for the trade: not printing Laminating of photographs (coating photographs with plastics) Lecture bureaus Lettering service Liquidators of merchandise on a contract or fee basis Mannequin decorating service Map drafting service Mapmaking, including aerial Message service, telephone answering except beeper service Metal slitting and shearing on a contract or fee basis Meter readers, remote Microfilm recording and developing service Mounting merchandise on cards on a contract or fee basis Music distribution systems, except coin-operated Notaries public Packaging and labeling service (not packing and crating) Paralegal service Parcel packing service (packaging) Patent brokers Patrol of electric transmission or gas lines Photogrammetric mapping service (not professional engineers) Photographic library service, still Photography brokers Pipeline and power line inspection services Playwrights' brokers Post office contract stations Presorting mail service Press clipping service Printed circuitry graphic layout Process serving service Produce weighing service, not connected with transportation Product sterilization service Promoters of home shows and flower shows Racetrack cleaning, except buildings Radio broadcasting music checkers Radio transcription service Recording studios on a contract or fee basis Redemption of trading stamps Repossession service Restaurant reservation service Rug binding for the trade Safety inspection service, except automotive Salvaging of damaged merchandise, not engaged in sales Sampling of commodities, not connected with transportation Scrap steel cutting on a contract or fee basis Shoe designers Showcard painting Shrinking textiles for tailors and dressmakers Sign painting and lettering shops Solvents recovery service on a contract or fee basis Speakers' bureaus Sponging textiles for tailors and dressmakers Styling of fashions, apparel, furniture, and textiles Styling wigs for the trade Swimming pool cleaning and maintenance Switchboard operation of private branch exchanges Tape slitting for the trade (cutting plastics, leather, etc. into widths) Tax collection agencies: collecting for a city, county, or State Tax title dealers: agencies for city, county, or State Telemarketing (telephone marketing) service on a contract or fee basis Telephone answering, except beeper service Telephone solicitation service on a contract or fee basis Textile designers Textile folding and packing services Time-share condominium exchanges Tobacco sheeting service on a contract or fee basis Tourist information bureaus Trade show arrangement Trading stamp promotion and sale to stores Trading stamp redemption Translation service Water softener service Weighing foods and other commodities not connected with Welcoming service Window trimming service Yacht brokers

This class includes post-production activities such as editing, film/tape transfers, titling, subtitling, credits, closed captioning, computer-produced graphics, animation and special effects, developing and processing motion picture film, as well as activities of motion picture film laboratories and activities of special laboratories for animated films. This class excludes: - film duplicating (except reproduction of motion picture film for theatrical distribution) as well as audio and video tape, CD or DVD reproduction from master copies, see 18.20 - wholesale of recorded video tapes, CDs, DVDs, see 46.43 - wholesale of blank video tapes, CDs, see 46.52 - retail trade of video tapes, CDs, DVDs, see 47.63 - film processing other than for the motion picture industry, see 74.20 - rental of video tapes, DVDs to the general public, see 77.22 - activities of own account actors, cartoonists, directors, stage designers and technical specialists, see 90.0

This class includes: - fashion design related to textiles, wearing apparel, shoes, jewellery, furniture and other interior decoration and other fashion goods as well as other personal or household goods - industrial design, i.e. creating and developing designs and specifications that optimise the use, value and appearance of products, including the determination of the materials, mechanism, shape, colour and surface finishes of the product, taking into consideration human characteristics and needs, safety, market appeal in distribution, use and maintenance - activities of graphic designers - activities of interior decorators This class excludes: - design and programming of web pages, see 62.01 - architectural design, see 71.11 - engineering design, i.e. applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes and systems, see 71.12

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material.

Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material.