The Graphics/Illustration (GR/ILL) major combines studies in Studio Arts, Illustration, Advertising, Graphic Design, and Liberal Arts, providing students with essential competencies for the visual communication of ideas. This combination better prepares for a broad range of career possibilities.

At Nazareth, strong drawing skills provide the foundation for studies in illustration and design. These competencies give students unique advantages in the graphic profession. Students learn to develop creative visual responses to communication problems, understand message hierarchies, typography, aesthetics, composition and the construction of meaningful images. Students become creative problem solvers and elegant image-makers.

Program Highlights

• Instruction in: visual communication, design and illustration, professional practices and processes, typography, branding and identity, contemporary design criticism and design history, publication and layout, advertising design, and visual design for web-based media.
• Emphasis is on portfolio building and assembling a professional body of work by the junior and senior year.
  
• An internship is required by the senior year for completion of a GR/ILL concentration.
• Alumni use their skills at local and national advertising, marketing and communications firms as well as in the non-profit sector.
• We also offer a Minor in Graphic Design.