Learning Outcomes

Illustration Mission Statement

Our underlying philosophy is Experience and Encounter, inviting students to deeply investigate the interplay of image-making, design thinking, and social engagement.

Illustration fuses personal vision and rigorous professional practice to help students build the responsive skill set required to flourish in a variety of creative markets. As powerful imagemakers and skilled visual storytellers, illustrators create work for a highly diverse marketplace including animated films, computer gaming, picture book and comics publishing, visual journalism, surface design, apparel and fashion, and product design.

Our program combines development of technical skill in traditional studio media and new and emerging technologies with conceptual inquiry to empower you to create visual messages capable of engaging clients and changing culture.

Above all, you will use these skills to generate compelling, culturally relevant ideas, create never-before-seen worlds and characters, and craft new narratives—all communicated in your own uniquely dynamic and distinct visual language.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates will:

• Understand the methodologies and practices of the contemporary illustration marketplace.
• Develop a robust and diverse set of technical abilities as image makers and visual communicators.
• Develop a robust set of academic, media literacy and general problem solving skills related to established and contemporary issues.
• Have strong awareness of the cultural and historical context of illustration as a means of visual communication.