Graphic Design - Southeast Community College Area

Graphic Design from Southeast Community College Area is a Campus Associate Design degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. Overview In SCC?s program, students learn the technical skills and fundamental conceptual theories and techniques needed to produce compelling visual communication messages. Assignments simulate typical job-related projects. Students work in the graphic design lab at individual cubicles. Each cubicle has a Macintosh work station. Students will become proficient at using all the standard software common to the graphic design industry. For page layout, students will use InDesign and QuarkXPress. For photo and image manipulation, students will use Photoshop. For drawing, students will use Illustrator. For Web design , students will use Flash, Dreamweaver and Final Cut Express. Note: Designers make creative decisions based on research, reflection and insight. Computers do not provide creative solutions. They are only a tool. As a graphic design student, you will use a computer, but it will not make compelling creative decisions for you. Graphic design software will not be any more helpful in making you a designer than Microsoft Word will make you a writer. Most design work is executed with a computer; however, the thinking/visualization process is still accomplished by drawing. Designers begin each new project by drawing rough sketches. The roughs are later translated into computer designs . As a result, students will draw, research, study and make oral and written presentations. They will work individually and in teams just as they would in a real-world business environment. Students will apply their design skill and knowledge in a wide variety of applications. They will use typography, illustrations, photography, copywriting and other processes to create designs from newsletters to catalogs to brochures to billboards to logos to packages to Web sites. Finished assignments become part of student?s professional portfolio. Mission The mission of the Graphic Design program is to prepare competent graphic design students for employment in the field of graphic communications. The program will continue to meet the technical and aesthetic requirements of the graphics communication industry. Job Outlook Employment of graphic designers is expected to grow about as fast as average. Keen competition for jobs is expected. Students are prepared for careers as designers and art directors in advertising agencies, as Web designers, layout designers at magazines and newspapers, publication designers, designers for printers, billboard/sign designers, catalog designers, package designers, and virtually any other business that has a need to create visual communication. Recent graduates report an average starting hourly wage of $12.40, with a high of $14.40 per hour. View more details on Southeast Community College Area . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Design courses.