Graphic Design
Start your Graphic Design career with DCAD
Graduates of DCAD’s Graphic Design major navigate exciting paths as they climb career ladders to become noted Designers, Art Directors and Creative Directors. Start with us and join their ranks!
The mission of the Graphic Design Program is to provide students with an understanding of visual design principles and technical skills as a means to successfully convey information to an audience. In this program, you’ll explore relevant design problems, historical theory, typographic principles, and audience awareness. As a result, you’ll gain working knowledge of what it takes to continue your studies at a four-year program. DCAD’s design majors transfer to BFA programs and, upon graduation, find success in design firms, in advertising at agencies nationwide and with PR and MarCom organizations.
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What You’ll Learn
Visual Communication
Learn and apply metaphor, meaning and visual syntax to discover how design motivates an audience response.
Typography
Apply the principles of art to what is readthrough the understanding of shape, the form of the written line and the pace of the page.
Problem Solving
Through the process of making prototypes, testing those forms, editing and review through critique and tough assessment.
Project research
The gathering of data, its development and application to visualization principles and their application to real world project scenarios
TODAY’S Design Skills
Require a combination of conceptual thinking, an emerging expertise at craft and the ability to work with industry-standard software tools to ensure you have the necessary toolkit to become an effective member of a collaborative team
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Focus
Communication Design
In the graphic design concentration, you will learn how to create effective and targeted content for print and web media. Thanks to a range of courses in typography to photography, you will be able to write and visualize effective communication. With proven design principles, you will graduate with an understanding of what makes strategic communication powerful.
Faculty and Staff
John Breakey
Program Chair
Graphic Design
Jason Olney
Professor, Graphic Design
Graphic Design
