Do your talents include drawing and creativity? How about designing images or the ability to translate ideas into reality? The Graphic Design Program at McIntosh College could help get you on the road towards a career as a professional graphic artist.
Just a few of the career paths graduates of our graphic design career training can pursue are:
- Web Design
- Industrial Design
- Multimedia Design
- Advertising Design
Our quality Graphic Design Program is designed to prepare students for a career that draws on the best of their creative ability. You can learn to explore how art and science converge to create compelling and effective designs for a wide variety of industry applications.
McIntosh College offers an intensive program which combines studies of both the practical and creative applications of graphic design. Graduates of the Graphic Design Program may pursue careers in a cross-section of industries, including web design, industrial design, multimedia design, publishing, broadcasting or advertising, among many others.
Creative visualization techniques, practical applications and industry-current software and technology can help each McIntosh College Graphic Design student attain the skills to compete and succeed in this exciting industry.
Graphic Design Program Educational Objectives:
- Gain a working knowledge of artist's tools and technology to function at an entry-level position.
- Utilize research and rapid visualization skills to quickly translate ideas into images.
- Gain familiarity with the various uses and readability of type in the field of design.
- Manipulate the elements and principles of design to create compositional effects.
- Establish objectives for design communication based on audience, cultural context and medium.
- Have the ability to work cross-platform programs on both PC and Macintosh computers.
- Gain a working knowledge of the Graphic Design production process.
- Understand graphic arts terms, copyfitting and copyediting terminology.
- Develop a fundamental knowledge of the processes of image assembly, stripping and imposition as it relates to pre-press production.
- Possess a basic knowledge of artistic styles from various periods in history.
- Understand the relationship of processes and technology to present-day design concepts and the impact of graphic design programs on the field of visual communication.
- Have a basic understanding of the different types of photography, films, filters, and techniques, how each fits a particular function, and all the different support each one has from other professionals
- Develop a basic understanding of the advertising industry and the job opportunities available to designers.
- Develop portfolios, self-promotion pieces, edit, format, and present their own works in effective ways for presentation to clients and potential employers.
Courses that one might take in the Graphic Design program are as follows:
- Digital Illustration
- Digital Imaging
- Digital Production Techniques
- Fundamentals of Design
- Fundamentals of Drawing
- Graphic Design I
- Graphic Design II
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- Graphic Design III
- Introduction to Computer Graphics
- Portfolio Preparation
- Publication Design
- Typography
- Web Page Design
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Learn more about our quality Graphic Design Program in New Hampshire. Contact us today to see how McIntosh College can help you on the road towards becoming a professional graphic designer.
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