Graphic Design (BFA) People & Stories
Faculty Spotlight
UArts Graphic Design BFA faculty are successful, award-winning designers from a range of disciplines, from corporate branding to typeface design to emerging media, in New York and Philadelphia. In addition to teaching in our graphic design program, many provide students with mentoring, internships and job opportunities. Our graphic design faculty have founded their own agencies and worked for major national magazines, global corporations, and branding firms, as well as not-for-profit organizations and cultural institutions. Students in the Graphic Design program receive one-on-one support and professional guidance as they develop their individual creative voices.
Student Spotlight
Students in the Graphic Design program are innovators, collaborators and visual thinkers. Our students benefit from small class sizes and hands-on experiences that prepare them for a career in graphic design.
The Graphic Design floor is a relaxed, friendly environment where all students mingle to become a supportive community and each other’s best resources. Working in airy, open double studios, our students learn and draw inspiration from each other. A spirit of collaboration in the department, as well as with other programs at the university and the larger creative community of Philadelphia, creates a unique atmosphere where everyone is welcomed and heard and ideas flow freely.
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Alumni Spotlight
The Graphic Design program graduates step out into the world ready for careers as graphic designers, web designers, UX (user experience) designers, creative directors and more, comprehensively taught and well-rounded in skill and practice from their studies.
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Alumni from the Graphic Design program have worked for:
American Museum of Natural History • Apple • Bloomberg • Burson-Marsteller • Buzzfeed • Cloud-Gehshan Associates • Comcast • Dazed Digital • Facebook • Fast Company • The Franklin Institute • Fullscreen • Google • Huffington Post • IBM • The Intuitive Company • King & Partners • Jefferson Health • Lippincott • EMO-NY, • Men’s Health Magazine • Microsoft • MOD Worldwide • Monument Lab • Morningstar • MTV • Pentagram • Philadelphia Museum of Art • Publicis Media • Red Antler • Red Sky Interactive • Sagon-Phior • Siegel + Gale • Situation Interactive • Spotify • Stag and Hare • TracyLocke • Two Twelve Associates • University of the Arts Marketing & Communication • Urban Outfitters • Use All Five • Vanguard • Vimeo • WGBH
Stories
The School of Design at UArts redefines what it means to educate a 21st century designer, providing creative, cross-disciplinary and business practices in the curriculum. Its key innovation is a celebration of the reality that the boundaries between all sorts of contemporary design practices are more permeable than ever before, and that a modern designer needs a greatly expanded skill set at their disposal.
The School of Design 1st Year Core is a unique and critical first year experience for all undergraduate design majors. These collaborative courses will expose you to multiple modes of practice and technologies while providing a solid grounding in design thinking, drawing as thinking, communication, audience and meaning, design technology, and collaboration and team building. You'll complete projects that encourage experimentation and develop your unique artistic voice across a range of social, cultural, political, technological and historical topics. This year of focused studies will prepare you to enter your discipline successfully. During your first year in the School of Design, you’ll also take course modules in the university’s Makerspace and Center for Immersive Media.
