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平面设计
Craft Your Impact as a Thinker and a Maker
Cultivate your creative voice and spark cultural change as you ch艺术 your own path in design.
Why earn your 平面设计 degree at St. 爱德华的?
Study 平面设计 in a city where technology and 艺术 intersect. Use your creativity and 艺术istic side to communicate information visually — in websites, publications and everyday objects.
专门的老师
Learn from thoughtful faculty who are mindful about your growth as an individual, and benefit from forming relationships with small cohorts of students.
创新课程
Dive into a diverse curriculum that spans image making, 排版, 出版, 设计历史, 动画, social impact and open experimentation. Coursework in the program leads to a senior thesis year where students define their own practice as designers and focus on an area of personal interest—everything from branding to digital product design and entrepreneurship.
实践的经历
Benefit from our shared interdisciplinary facilities, including a risograph 出版 lab, Mac计算机实验室, a photo studio and traditional dark room, 陶瓷实验室, 动画工作室, dedicated printing and production labs with high-end digital imaging equipment, as well as bookmaking and craft tools like heat presses and vinyl cutters.
校园项目
Learn how graphic design contributes to the formation and expression of complex societal ideas and values. Join the staff of Arete or the Sorin Oak Review, campus publications for academic and creative works, or lend your talents to Hilltop Views, 校报.
收获奥斯汀的回报
Forge relationships with Austin's creative community through our student 组织, 命令G, and our extensive alumni network. 获得的见解, 机会, and industry experience through a dedicated portfolio development course and internship requirement. 命令G arranges workshops and roundtables and provides 机会 to explore careers in the field through studio visits.
你会学到什么？?
Focus on developing your own voice as a graphic designer, define your own trajectory in design.
A few examples of courses students take in the major:
- In 交互设计, explore design issues unique to user-centered interaction in digital media. Examine a range of formal and conceptual issues, 包括用户界面, 组织, 叙述, 运动, 时间和声音.
- In 社会的设计, explores issues of responsibility and how designers p艺术icipate, shape and criticize the world around us.
你将获得什么技能?
- Discover your style by studying image making, 排版 and experimentation.
- Understand the evolution of 艺术 by focusing on 设计历史 and social impact.
- Define your own practice as designers and focus on an area of personal interest—everything from branding to digital product design and entrepreneurship.
我们的毕业生做什么?
平面设计 majors go on to a variety of careers and graduate schools from St. 爱德华的. 这里有一个例子.
- Designer at FODA Studio, an award-winning boutique design agency based in Austin.
- UX/UI designer at USAA design office, an in-house agency creating digital products serving the military community.
- Senior Product Designer at the New York Times.
- GNDR SHREDR创始人, a Portland-based screenprinting shop and design studio focusing on queer skating culture.
- Digital creative designer at James Avery Artisan Jewelry, 一个德克萨斯州的, family-owned company that specializes in designing hand-crafted jewelry.
- 平面设计er for Texas Senate.
- Senior Interaction Designer at frog, a global design consultancy.
- Founder of SeaLab, a digital product design agency.
- 平面设计er at Houston First Corporation, the official Destination Management Organization for Houston.
- Art director at The Barbarian Group, a New York-based advertising agency working on global brands.
Explore Details 关于 the BA in 平面设计
主要要求: The BA in 平面设计 requires 49 hours of graphic design major courses, which include a combination of introductory coursework, 视觉研究, 艺术, 以及平面设计.
General Education Requirements: The 平面设计 degree requires 57 hours of general education courses that students complete over four years in addition to their major courses and electives.
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