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Graphic Designer Career Description

 

Graphic Designers provide visual solutions to communicate specific messages. Depending on the job, a Graphic Designer may be required to know varying software applications or production techniques. Yet it is universally essential that Graphic Designers have a strong sense of concept development, layout composition, color theory and typography. A Graphic Designer may be responsible for developing presentations, brochures, advertisements, catalogs, direct mail pieces, logos, packaging, web sites or other multimedia materials. An accessible digital portfolio should be made available to potential employers. While Print Designers will also need a tangible selection of samples they can bring with them to an interview.

 
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Shinki Ando, Massachusetts
Graphic Design Certificate
course: Advanced Typography
   

If you wish to become a Graphic Designer, start building your portfolio while taking a course with Thom McKenna or obtain the necessary skills in one of the following Design Certificate Programs:

  Graphic Design Program
  Web Design
  Multimedia
  Digital Arts
  Marketing Design
The following design concentrations are available to students interested in a career in graphic design.
     
  Advanced Portfolio
Corporate Identity
Digital Illustration
Digital Photography
Web Design
Digital Imaging
Typography
Flash
Digital Imaging
Web Coding
Graphic Design
Ecommerce
Information Design/Usability
Web Business
Visual Identity
   
Design Concentrations offer students in Advanced and Masters Certificate programs the ability to study in an area of professional focus. Each concentration is a 4-course program with a specific career emphasis. Completion of a core certificate program ensures that students have met all prerequisites to enter a concentration.
 
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