Discover how this vector-based drawing program integrates into the suite of design tools.

Master sophisticated adjustment techniques necessary for constructing professional images with this ubiquitous design tool.

This introduction to the world of modern web design exposes students to industry standards and best practices for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the essential tools of a front-end web developer. 

Learn and practice the creation, manipulation, and combination of digital images in this ubiquitous design tool.

This course introduces the concept of device-centric design, in response to new developments in laptops, tablets, mobile devices, and wearables.

Explore style guides and the role they play in consumer products, then create an original style guide for a complete product line of your choice.

Students with knowledge of the fundamentals of UX move on to iteration: rounds of work and experimentation to hone problem solving skills.

This course explores the furniture design process, from the concept stage to product development.

Jump in and create a 3-D game experience using the world class game engine Unity. Students will design fantastic other world realities.

Begin the transition from student to professional designer with an internship in a real world setting.

In this thesis-oriented capstone course, Design Communication Arts students put all they've learned into action to tackle real-world design projects in the civic realm.

In this hands-on course, research, design, and present collateral communication projects, achieving visual solutions that are functional, elegant, appropriate.

Work in an agency-inspired environment to develop concepts and strategies to deliver information, products, and brands that engage the consumer.

Develop and execute materials, concepts, and graphics appropriate for effecting packaging, including logo design, type, and pictoral elements.

Create campaigns for theatrical key art movie posters, entertainment packaging, and other collateral materials built around the industry’s needs and opportunities.

This course examines abstract structuring in 2-D and 3-D design, use of construction materials, and fundamentals of modular systems and their modifications and variations.

A hands-on introduction to the creative process and core elements of successful graphic design.

Investigate the techniques and best practices of magazine design, annual reports, and branded collateral. 

Expand your typographic skills by exploring increasingly complex typographic systems, and solving design problems that demand conceptual and experimental approaches to accommodate multiple layers of information.

This hands-on course covers the fundamentals of type, its characteristics, vocabulary, and nomenclature, as well as creative uses of type and how it is integrated in successful design.