| Associate of Applied Art: Fort Worth
Graphic designers, or graphic artists, plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to communications challenges. Graphic designers develop the layout and production design of magazines, news media, journals, business reports, and other publications. They also design promotional displays, packaging, and marketing brochures for products or services. Some graphic designers may develop material for Internet Web pages, interactive media, and multimedia projects. Designers who create Web graphics or other interactive media designs use a variety of basic computer animation and programming software.
The Digital Graphic Arts program instructs you in graphic/typographic design, digital design and imaging, digital pre-press operations, website design production, and the business aspects of advertising and marketing. The hands-on computer labs let you gain experience with many of the commonly used design programs in the industry. Programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Freehand, and Macromedia Dreamweaver are taught, as well as Adobe Illustrator and HTML and XHTML programming.
The Digital Graphic Arts P program can prepare you for entry-level positions in desktop publishing, computer graphics, digital imaging, production art, and website creation. Potential employers include advertising agencies, design firms, newspapers and magazines, printing companies, corporate art departments, website designers and providers, and a host of other enterprises where there is a need for computer expertise combined with a flair for creative design.
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