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Fashion Business: Thesis Market Research

Synthesize market research into effective business strategies. You will assess market conditions, define critical process, analyze data, and generate actionable recommendations that drive real-world decision making. With a focus on academic rigor and practical application, you will demonstrate your findings in a professional thesis presentation.

Design Drawing 3

Rapid freehand sketching techniques will improve your work. You’ll quickly sketch free and geometric forms focusing on textures and material delineation. (This course is cross-listed with IND 251.)

Studio 1: Conceptual Design Studio

Learn design principles for creating spaces for people. You will utilize design, methodology, and space-making principles to gain fundamental knowledge and skills in environmental design and prepare for future architecture and landscape architecture studios.

Mythology for the Modern World

Applying standard analytical models to myths, you’ll study diverse cultural mythologies and their symbolic representations and learn to recognize mythic forms and how they operate in ancient, tribal, and modern cultures.

Creative Writing for the Digital Landscape

Writing is paying attention. You’ll gain writing and reporting skills to create compelling entertainment, news, informational, and instructional stories for web, radio, and television. (This course is cross-listed with LA 105.)

Structures

Gain an understanding of how structural systems and materials impact architectural form and structural design. You will study the elements, connections, and organizations used in the construction process, from elemental to complex structures in different materials.

Portfolio Development

For your MFA Midpoint or MA Final Portfolio Review, you’ll develop a written thesis or artist statement, story preparation, story analysis, color progression, concept drawing, character studies, environment studies, prop studies, beat boards, and project presentations.

Introduction to Fashion Design

This experience will introduce young people who love fashion and want to discover more of its creative possibilities and modes of design. Reflective of the design processes students will be introduced to the fundamental skills and approaches to seeing their ideas come to life. Guided through research, idea generation and… Read More

The Visual Elements of Story

Master the visual elements of story, including color and design, color theory, staging and composition, camera angles, perspective principles, and typography. You’ll also learn film vocabulary.

VIS for Character Design and Video Games

Students will explore the process of development for animated and live action films by taking an idea from concept to completion. There will be a focus on composition, figure drawing, character design, perspective, storytelling, color and value, and thumbnail sketches. Students will produce a final cinematic painting.