Graphic Design
BFA
Graphic Design
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Imagine a world without the keen eye, unique voice, and specialized skill of graphic designers.
We’d be lost—literally and figuratively.
Graphic design is vital. It’s a field of professional art practice that gives shape to culture through a wide range of print and digital media.
Our Graphic Design BFA program offers a distinctive education in the art and practice of print and digitally based graphic design and experimental publishing.
Pick Your Path
We encourage you to see the field as an open frame whose applications can be commercial, political, educational, literary, subversive, personal, and experimental.
We prepare you for an array of options by providing a hands-on studio environment with an emphasis on the marriage of formal and conceptual skills.
Dimensional Learning
You’ll learn to solve visual communication problems through critical thinking and the use of words, symbols, and images in two, three, and four dimensions.
Faculty Professionals
Experienced professional faculty members help you find your own voice and approach to design in a facility that encourages experimentation in a wide range of methodologies and technologies. Meet our faculty.
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Do What You Love
Visual artists at Purchase cross boundaries and explore whatever media that intrigues them.
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“There wasn’t any moment of, ‘should you be making furniture even though you’re a graphic designer?’ And it’s because they understand, one, that design is a thought process, and that what the outcome is is not necessarily just a piece of typography, but it could be a chair.”
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