Look around. You live in an ever-increasingly visual world. Graduates with art and graphic design degrees are poised to succeed in the 21st-century creative market. Today’s world is overloaded with more communication than ever. Everywhere you turn, there are print ads, billboards, web graphics, and display advertising. That’s why now, more than ever, it’s important that visual elements of business and advertising converge to be as strong as possible. This is the main focus of Clarke’s graphic design program.
Our Graphic design program offers a career-oriented program in which you’ll develop skills and knowledge of studio art along with graphic design. The ability to create an original concept through your technical abilities in drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and design will provide you with adaptive skills to solve complex visual communication problems. You’ll graduate from our degree in graphic design program professionally equipped as a 21st-century design thinker, maker, and entrepreneur. Does this sound like the path for you? Visit Dubuque, Iowa, and experience first-hand a day in the life of a Clarke graphic design major.
Professional Training You’ll Acquire with a Graphic Design Degree
You’ll explore traditional studio techniques and media, digital production and editing software, and a strong contextual and art historical framework within the graphic design programs. As a graphic design degree student, you will study animation, typography, digital media illustration, drawing, and photography to round out your education. The graphic design degree program prepares Clarke students through progressive skill development and design experiences. Designers combine traditional and digital media to convey meaning through the organization of text and image, and to visually communicate their ideas for a variety of service-related and social-design challenges.
If you’re looking for a career that’s always in demand, pursuing a degree through our graphic design program is an ideal fit for you. Graphic designers are needed for all types of companies to produce marketing materials, everything from logos and web design to brochures and packaging materials.
While preparing for a variety of careers available in the graphic design and digital media fields, you’ll create a digital portfolio to skyrocket your odds of excellent job placement after graduation.