Graphic Design
About Studying Graphic Design
Build a strong visual arts foundation that will prepare you to become a working professional with our Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design degree. You will plan, analyze, create and evaluate visual solutions to communication problems in a full range of areas like Editorial Design, Corporate and Brand Identity Design, Advertising, Publications, Environmental Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Typography, Web, Motion and Interactive Design. Plus you’ll culminate your degree with a senior portfolio and internship experience. Our alumni are successful professionals who lead in visual thinking and communication and craft a better world.
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You'll have access to state-of-the-art equipment and software in our Graphic Design Studios.
Find Your Design Flow
The Galleries are a teaching program of the School of Art and Design. We embrace bold curation and showcase provocative, socially-charged art from artists across the nation. Our faculty and students collaborate, advise, and co-curate as partners in realizing new artwork. Every spring, Graphic Design seniors are featured in the Graphic Design Senior Show in the Lydia and Robert Ruyle Gallery in Campus Commons.
The Southard Awards are the School of Art and Design’s most prestigious competition. Students submit a written proposal selected for a public presentation of creative work. The objective for the competitive process is provide students with an opportunity to develop the materials, documentation and conceptual sophistication, needed in order to pursue advanced academic or professional opportunities upon graduation from UNC.
You can incorporate the Arts Entrepreneurship Certificate into your undergraduate major in many different ways to get yourself ready for the professional arts world. Choose the 15 credits required for this certificate according to your interests.
Professional Organizations
Talk to our faculty about getting involved in professional design-related organizations like the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado Chapter. It’s never to soon to take your first steps into the professional world!
Meet our Graphic Design Faculty
Samuel Dong Saul
Assistant Professor of Integrated Media Arts & Graphic Design
Hye Jeong Park
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Seojung Lee
Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design & Foundations
Mark Fetkewicz
Emeritus Faculty & Graphic Design Internship Coordinator
Graphic Design Students in Action
