Visual Communication Design - Cornish College of the Arts

Visual Communication Design from Cornish College of the Arts is a Campus Bachelor Design degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The Design Department at Cornish provides a small, personal studio environment, with a focus on demanding conceptual projects that support exploration and creative risk-taking. The curriculum is based on visual , technical, and conceptual investigations. These lead to new approaches to communicate information, envision environments, and new forms for storytelling. Students also learn to promote ideas and messages, explore graphics in motion, and discover new interactive experiences and visual forms for entertainment. All freshmen design students begin their studies developing an understanding of visual language, media and material explorations, as well as digital and manual skills. Students learn critical analysis and writing skills within the Humanities and Sciences Integrated Studies Program. In their sophomore year, students select area of concentration as ? Visual Communication Design . Within these areas of concentration, students learn how to approach any proposed project by questioning assumptions, researching the context, generating conceptual sketches, visualizing options, synthesizing final designs, and presenting to peers, faculty, and guests. Art and Design history, and a range of Humanities and Sciences courses, begin in the sophomore year and continue throughout the four-year degree program as an integral component of the learning experience. In the junior year, the curriculum centers on demanding professional studio experiences. Students engage in adv-anced research regarding the objectives of their client for the intended audience or user. They learn to consider the environmental and cultural sustainability, social equity, economic impact, and international implications of their designs. In their senior year, students from all design concentrations collaborate on an interdisciplinary project in the fall semester, and focus on a self-initiated thesis project in the spring semester. Students present their thesis work in a year-end BFA Exhibition, a celebration of each student's achievement and the final step from college into their chosen path. A primary goal is to provide the educational foundation for graduates to pursue advanced degrees and to become leading design professionals and active citizens in local and global communities. The department integrates professional engagement with community involvement into the curriculum. The faculty is composed of active working professionals in the Seattle community. The wider professional community is involved through studio projects based on actual client projects in the students' junior and senior years. These activities include inviting guest designers to class critiques; lunchtime and evening guest speakers; field trips; extra-curricular group projects; internships; student exhibitions; student interest groups; and active links with professional associations such as the AIGA, IIDA, and ASID. The classroom studios mimic the professional environment. Every student works at a drafting table with a personal laptop connected to a range of digital peripherals. Senior students have a personal studio space for their final year. The Visual Communication Design curriculum provides the educational environment that enables students to develop into exceptional communicators with visual language. In today's saturated media context, almost all ideas are presented visually through image and text. Every organization, such as businesses, schools, theaters, restaurants, and community groups, has a visual identity created by a designer. Designs range from complex transit systems that appear as simple maps and schedules to packaging with detailed ingredient lists for every item in a grocery store. The ubiquitous male/female icons for restrooms were designed, as were all the other signs that help people navigate the everyday environment. People identify themselves with issues, causes, and cultures by wearing symbols that were designed like the peace symbol, sports emblems, or wristbands. Ideas presented in books, graphic novels, magazines, and newspapers are designed through the selection, creation, and use of typography, illustrations, images, publication formats, and even the selection of paper. Visual Communication Design focuses on the visual interpretation of ideas, information, and messages. Alumni have professional opportunities to enter design positions within design firms; magazine, book, comic, and newspaper publishing; strategic branding companies; in-house corporate design and communication departments; printing companies; or to develop independent illustration and design practices. View more details on Cornish College of the Arts . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Design courses.