UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Don Adleta, Chair
Department Faculty List
Portfolio Review 2010 - Wednesday May 5, 2010 / Siegfred 405 / 9 - 10 am.
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Mission Statement
The Graphic Design Area at Ohio University places emphasis on providing an understanding of the designer’s personal and social
responsibility,
developing the student's capacity for critical thinking, and
stimulating imagination and innovation.
Understanding graphic design within a cultural context is an essential
component of a designer's education.
The students in the Graphic Design Area find their home within
the College of Fine Arts, where new thinking edges of performance,
video, film, music, theater and dance are around us. The design program
is within one of the schools of the college, the School of Art. Design
students can visually research in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics,
painting and photography at the same time they are studying in their
design studio classes.
We develop fundamental skills of perception, interpretation, and inventiveness, as well as understanding the nature and meaning of visual form in context. Our graduating designers secure positions within top design firms nationally and internationally. They design within a broad spectrum of applications: solving complex problems, planning, and executing solutions.
Their ultimate strength is visually translating ideas into form, or in other words sending an intended message to a targeted audience. The aesthetic ordering of type and image in order to interest and inform has been highly acknowledged by the design industry.
Plus we can play as hard as we work!
Studio classes, inside and outside the graphic design program, as well
as liberal arts courses, prepare students for an immediate goal, the
design practice; and a long term goal, continuing intellectual,
personal, and creative growth.
Data list for application into Graphic Design Program
Computer Bundles required for 200/300/400 level Graphic Design courses.
Graphic Design Advising Aid for Determining Graduation Requirements
Facilities
The fourth floor of Seigfred Hall has studio classrooms for the students in graphic design. Our classrooms are on the north side providing optimum lighting for color and studio activities. Technology is inherent to graphic design, at Ohio University we have realized that each student needs to maintain a personal computer as per the specifications above. These are required to be present at all studio classes and kept at the standard recommended with all software and complete Graphic Design Font Library up to date.
Our Vandercook letterpress room has an extensive and rare collection of metal and wood type for designing and printing innovative books. The graphic design program is dedicated to maintaining its traditional and contemporary facilities.
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