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Facilities

State-of-the-Art Tools and Labs

Our faculty of professional designers along with state-of-the-art tools and labs help push your design work to a higher level. All of the studios and labs across departments are open and available to you for producing your work. Our students work in the printmaking studio, Wacom Lab, and more. They also connect across technology, getting hands-on experience in ways designers are working and collaborating in the world today.

Design Studio

This home base for Graphic Design majors hosts classes, collaborative work sessions, critiques, and more.

Design Studio
Digital Production Center

Our Digital Production Center supports high quality digital print production, binding, and finishing driven by a Konica Minolta C1060 Digital Press. It's also a hub for sharing advice on design practice and craft between faculty and students.

Digital Production Center at PNCA
Liftoff! Senior Showcase

Liftoff! is our annual showcase for the graduating class of Graphic Design and Illustration students. Designed by students in collaboration with faculty, it's a way for students to collaborate and build each other up, experimenting with design decisions and formats that fit each graduating group; a time capsule of talent from year to year.

Liftoff! Senior Showcase
Design Project Space

Design Project Spaces are dedicated to the exhibition of works by PNCA's design students.

Design Project Space at PNCA

Facilities and Equipment

Printmaking Studio
Houses a large and varied collection of both contemporary and traditional printmaking facilities, presses, processing rooms, printers, stations and equipment.

Wacom Lab
A first of its kind among colleges, our WACOM lab houses a variety of digital tablets and touchscreen computers that are accessible by all students.

Creative Technology Lab
Our technology-focused lab that offers classes, workshops and access to a wide-range of contemporary technology, digital tools and facilities.

Albert Solheim Library
A two-story facility that houses a collection of over 30,000 books and other items and a number of computer workstations.

Animation Lab
Features state-of-the-art workstations and suites to accommodate 2D, 3D, digital, analog and linear animation with access to unique equipment.

Woodshop
An extensive collection of traditional and contemporary woodworking tools and a welding and metal working area.

Ceramics Studio
Houses pottery and glass kilns for fusing and slumping and a plaster and slip cast mold making facility.

Photography Lab
Supports both traditional and digital fine art photography and processing with with large format capacity and professional lighting studio and cyc wall.

Professional Digital Fine Art Printing Lab
State-of-the-art printers and scanners calibrated to industry standards and support for large format professional printing.

Engage with our Extended Design Communities

  • PNCA Design Lecture Series

    Design Lecture Series

    Our event series was founded as a way to open our doors and minds to the broad and vibrant possibilities in design. The series is driven by current students and faculty in conversation with a diverse set of creative folks from all over the world who break expectations of what design can be and do today.

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Graphic Design