Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a puppet designer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a puppet designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Puppet designers design and create puppets and manipulable objects for performers. Their work is based on research and artistic vision. Their design is influenced by and influences other designs and must be conform with these designs and the overall artistic vision. Therefore, the designers work closely with artistic directors, operators and the artistic team. Puppet designers make puppets and manipulable objects out of a variety of materials, and may build robotic elements into them. Puppet designers sometimes also work as autonomous artists, creating outside a performance context.

Also known as puppet maker, puppet designer & maker, puppet builder, puppet designer and maker, puppet designer & builder, puppet designer/maker, puppet designer and builder, puppet creator.

Professionals 55 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: performance video designer, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
performance video designer 77% covered costume designer 77% covered performance lighting designer 77% covered set designer 73% covered sound designer 73% covered puppet designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from puppet designer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a puppet designer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A puppet designer needs 37 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • sew puppet clothing handling and moving
  • create puppets handling and moving
  • design puppets communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct costume research information skills
  • research new ideas information skills
  • verify feasibility information skills
  • analyse the artistic concept based on stage actions information skills
  • propose improvements to artistic production communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse the scenography communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop design ideas cooperatively communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a puppet designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Puppet designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a puppet designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.