The digital revolution has created a pressing need in the job market for skilled and talented designers. There has never been a time when graphic designers have been in greater demand. Organizations varying in size from neighborhood merchants to multinational corporations and the Federal Government are dependent upon graphic designers to get their messages to their audiences. Many graphic designers hold staff jobs in corporations and organizations large and small, while others freelance, serving many clients and meeting a great diversity of visual needs. To prepare its students for successful careers, the Graphic Design Department offers a comprehensive program, addressing studio skills, conceptual thinking, design theory and technological sophistication.
Students receive individual attention and achieve a high level of competence in their finished work.
Formal classes are supplemented by field trips and visiting lecturers, taking advantage of the extraordinary resource of America s capital city and the great professionals who live and work in this region. The faculty is comprised of distinguished designers who maintain close links to the design community links that often help students make professional connections of their own for internships and job placements after graduation. Despite the availability today of a wide variety of increasingly advanced technological tools, designers nevertheless continue to serve the needs of traditional media such as books, magazines, film, and television, as well as those of newer media such as the World Wide Web. At the Corcoran, students choose from the two concentrations, achieving a well-rounded understanding of this increasingly diversified profession. In the senior year, hand-eye skills, conceptual thinking and technology are synthesized in a close and intense collaboration between students and faculty, producing a body of professional work.