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Professional Practices for Designers and Advertisers

As a graphic design, interaction and UI/UX design, or advertising student, you’ll create a personal career plan that focuses on professional practices and common business issues shared by these three affiliated fields.

Fashion Business: Industry Dynamics

The business of fashion is complex. You will get a comprehensive look at how various components of fashion business—product development, sourcing, buying, marketing, and retailing—are intertwined to create a powerful industry.

Fantasy Portrait Sculpture

Get creative and sculpt a 1/3rd scale fantasy self-portrait in oil-based clay over three fun weeks! Learn portrait anatomy basics as you build your sculpture, shape your features, and add imaginative twists to bring your vision to life. Finish with a gallery exhibit showcasing your mini masterpiece for all to… Read More

Studio 2

Create a functional and imaginative workplace for your commercial client. In your second major studio, you’ll develop plans and drawings, select furniture and materials, produce construction documents, and produce a dynamic presentation based on programming and your conceptual design.

Classical Aesthetics and the Renaissance

Examine the ideas that helped shape the Renaissance. Considering the art and ideas of ancient Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe as the foundation, you’ll analyze the art of the Renaissance and its transition to the modern world.

Natural Systems in the Landscape

How do natural systems influence design decisions? While developing a deep understanding of natural systems, you’ll explore landscapes in your region to learn how to develop strategies for mapping and recording soil types, geological forms, watersheds, and other natural features. (This course is cross-listed with LAN 115.)

Web Design 1

HTML and CSS are the backbone of the web. As you develop your coding skills, you’ll learn strategies in site architecture, navigation, file management, and more to create highly intuitive websites.

3D Character Animation 3

Apply acting and performance methods to character animation. You’ll take an in-depth look at character acting, action, game animation, lip-sync, facial expressions, subtext, and reference. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 421.)

3D Realistic Animation

Animate scenes commonly found in visual effects work including vehicles, motion capture, and animation for live-action plates. Reference will be analyzed to understand movement and muscles. You will apply research and physics to block and animate creatures as well as humans. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 625.)

Fashion Business: Thesis Financial Planning

Profitability and cash flow. You will take a deep dive into the financial aspects of your approved business plan to make improvements for your final thesis project.