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Type Designer Career Description

Type Designers create unique fonts so that words will have a strong visual impact in addition to their implied meanings. Responsibilities include setting and changing type foundations and helping clients to stand out by using Ëone of a kindÓ fonts in their designs. Type Designers have invented everything from Ëbread & butterÓ fonts like Helvetica, which spurred the san serif revolution, to the most esoteric and unique font creations.

Suzanne Bobey, Pennsylvania
Graphic Design Certificate
course: Design and Composition

If you are interested in a career as a Type Designer, take a typography course with Brian Slawson or our Web Typography course with Piper Nilsson. Typography is a key part of visual communications. To gain solid skills in typography, build a portfolio, and excel as a designer, look into one of the following Certificate Programs:

Graphic 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
Editorial Design
Digital Imaging
Typography

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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