We design.
Graphic design is an interdisciplinary, creative problem-solving process that combines research, visual sensitivity, design skills, and knowledge in areas of visual communication, technology, and business. Graphic design is the effective understanding of a client’s product, service, or event, and its goal is to translate the client and designer’s shared concept into a creative visual solution for a targeted audience. Design is created through the manipulation, combination, and utilization of shape, color, imagery, typography, and space–beautifully crafted across all applications—digital, analogue and environmental.
Subjects you may study in the Department of Design include the following: Advertising Design, APP Design, Brand Identity, Data Visualization and Mapping, Design Research, Design Theory, Design Thinking, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design (Print and Digital), Information Design, Packaging Design, Publication Design, Signage Design, Sustainable Design, System Design, Typography, Way Finding Design and Web Design.
BFA IN DESIGN ARTS WITH A CONCENTRATION IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Required courses:
Concentration Electives:
Typical Four-Year Course Progression
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1st Semester (15 credits) Drawing 1 (3) |
2nd Semester (15 credits) Drawing 2 (3) |
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3rd Semester (15 credits) Design System 1 (3) |
4th Semester (15 credits) Design System 2 (3) |
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5th Semester (15 credits) Design System 3 (3) |
6th Semester (15 credits) Design System 4 (3) |
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7th Semester (15 credits) Design System 5 (3) |
8th Semester (15 credits) Design System 6 (3) |