Graphic Design: Digital and Print Media
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Graphic Design: Digital & Print Media, A.A.S.
Minneapolis College’s Graphic Design: Digital & Print Media program centers on the place where words meet images, where clear and purposeful communication meets aesthetic impact and where a range of human needs and desires reside. You will get hands-on experience from experienced instructors in a program that will open up a world for you in a fast-paced Graphic Design career.
Graphic Design: Digital & Print Media Certificates
- Graphic Design: Digital & Print Media, Certificate
- Graphic Design: Digital & Print Media Core, Certificate
Do you want an exciting career that merges creativity with technology? Training from experienced faculty in the program will help you open up a world of possibilities for your graphic design career.
Highlights
- Our college is located in downtown Minneapolis, which has one of the largest creative and advertising industries in the country.
- Students become part of a tight-knit community that develops a lasting network which can sustain them throughout their design career.
- With our innovative teaching and curriculum, faculty members combine years of industry experience with their strong academic backgrounds.
- Our advisory committee includes representatives from major ad agencies, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and local design firms.
- Our graduates have gone on to successful careers at organizations such as: Adobe, Target, Best Buy, Periscope, General Mills, Clockwork, and 3M.
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Program Learning Outcomes
- Understand the knowledge gained through the study of the history of graphic design, typography and the visual arts, and apply this knowledge to today's diverse cultures and media marketplaces.
- Develop production skills necessary to work within the environment of media industries: create error free data and documents, work within commercial workflows, time management skills, project planning, image production and valid web documents.
- Apply the elements and principles of design and user experience, demonstrate visual literacy by strategically reinforcing visual messaging and typography.
- Articulate design solutions and communicate effectively in verbal and written responses using the language of graphic and web design.
- Apply problem-solving, critical thinking and a personal and professional obligation to their local and global communities as well as social and moral responsibilities.
- Demonstrate competence with graphic, print, web and interactive media applications and technologies.