Bachelor of Design in Graphic Design

University of Illinois Chicago

Graphic design makes ideas visible. Instruction combines the art of typography with the skillful rendering of signs, symbols, and images. Graphic designers vocalize thought, solicit engagement, influence behavior, stage a dialectic, facilitate connection, provoke a response. Students of graphic design learn its formal principles and acquire the skills necessary to engage these principles in practice. They learn to look-a faculty of vision-and to see-a faculty of the mind. They learn discernment to excise the trivial from the significant. Students learn to communicate visually-and compellingly-in the service of a greater good.

College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts