GRAPHIC DESIGN

Graphic design is everywhere: from your cell phone’s packaging to the movie poster advertising the next blockbuster.

CSUN offers a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses that prepare individuals for professional careers in graphic design and related visual communication fields. Understanding that graphic design is a visual language that communicates ideas, students learn the historical and foundational characteristics of the subject’s essential ingredients: type and imagery.

Lower division courses explore the various relationships of purpose, structure and appearance, while upper division courses emphasize the design process, from concept through execution, focusing on each portfolio-oriented project’s objective and intended audience. Classes are conducted in state-of-the-art computer labs using industry-standard software by professors with years of professional experience.