"Its through mistakes that you actually can grow.
ou have to get bad in order to get good." -Paula Scher
PUT YOUR ART TO WORK IN THE BUSINESS WORLD using your design skills in web and print. Do you get a kick of adrenaline under deadline? Like the puzzle of injecting your own creativity into the work of a team? Like working with other creative people?
COURSES HELP YOU PREPARE. In studios, to perfect your design sense and in digital courses, you will develop design and concepts together while learning industry standard software. Create for real clients (local nonprofits) in Design Studio-a real line on your résumé and a letter of reference. Earn credit laying out the College World (newspaper) or design OxCart (literary and art magazine). Through our liberal arts core and art history, improve your written/oral communication skills and expand your knowledge of how ideas and images have been used.
INTERNSHIPS at Spectrum Printers, the Daily Telegraph, Red Paint Printing, the Adrian Area Chamber of Commerce are nearby - or go elsewhere over the summer. Add these to on-campus experiences designing for the art department or working for the Publications Office, Contact (alumni magazine), or the Mound (yearbook).
EMPLOYERS IN THIS FIELD LOOK FOR your capacity to work on a team and take direction from a client or art director.
OUR ALUMNI
What can you do after Adrian if you focus on design while here? Look for a first job that allows you to design at least part of the time, while you continue to learn more software and skills to qualify for an even better design job. You can also work as a freelance designer, and in larger cities, there are temp agencies like Aquent that specialize in placing designers in temporary design jobs (some of which may become permanent). With experience and an aptitude for management, you can become an art director for a larger firm or be an entrepreneur and start your own design business. You can also go on for graduate training in design.
ou have to get bad in order to get good." -Paula Scher
PUT YOUR ART TO WORK IN THE BUSINESS WORLD using your design skills in web and print. Do you get a kick of adrenaline under deadline? Like the puzzle of injecting your own creativity into the work of a team? Like working with other creative people?
COURSES HELP YOU PREPARE. In studios, to perfect your design sense and in digital courses, you will develop design and concepts together while learning industry standard software. Create for real clients (local nonprofits) in Design Studio-a real line on your résumé and a letter of reference. Earn credit laying out the College World (newspaper) or design OxCart (literary and art magazine). Through our liberal arts core and art history, improve your written/oral communication skills and expand your knowledge of how ideas and images have been used.
INTERNSHIPS at Spectrum Printers, the Daily Telegraph, Red Paint Printing, the Adrian Area Chamber of Commerce are nearby - or go elsewhere over the summer. Add these to on-campus experiences designing for the art department or working for the Publications Office, Contact (alumni magazine), or the Mound (yearbook).
EMPLOYERS IN THIS FIELD LOOK FOR your capacity to work on a team and take direction from a client or art director.
- They want multiple quick sketched of possible solutions and an accurate, finished design completed on time. Speed, accuracy, and professionalism are essential, as are good communication skills and attention to detail.
- Small organizations who hire beginners, need flexible employees competent in more than one area: can you write, take photographs, or illustrate? Design for both web and print? Code a web page? Teach yourself software? Background in business or advertising is a plus.
- The best job require very good people skills. Associated fields include public relations , advertising, marketing, way finding (signage for public places), store design/display, textbook or other book design for publishing houses, retouching and restoring photographs for a photography studio, and much more.
OUR ALUMNI
What can you do after Adrian if you focus on design while here? Look for a first job that allows you to design at least part of the time, while you continue to learn more software and skills to qualify for an even better design job. You can also work as a freelance designer, and in larger cities, there are temp agencies like Aquent that specialize in placing designers in temporary design jobs (some of which may become permanent). With experience and an aptitude for management, you can become an art director for a larger firm or be an entrepreneur and start your own design business. You can also go on for graduate training in design.