Alabama's Public Liberal Arts University

Art Department - Graphic Design

art lab

The graphic design program prepares students for careers in graphic design, multi-media, web design, and advertising design through courses focusing on the development of concepts and esthetics as well as technique and production skills.

Designers are image-makers and visual communicators. Designers affect all aspects of society whether trying to inform, communicate an idea, or sell a product. Class projects reflect this wide range of approaches to design.

Courses offered include Introduction to  Computer Graphics, Introduction to Graphic Design, Typography, Design Studio, History of Graphic Design, Advanced Computer Graphics, Portfolio, and Internship.

The computer lab has 20 stations with Macintosh I-Macs with 17-inch displays,CD burners & DVD players, three flat-bed scanners, a Nikon slide scanner, a color laser printer, a large format b/w laser printer, a tabloid size color ink jet printer and a large format inkjet printer. The lab is equipped with current editions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXpress, TypeStyler, Fontographer, and Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and 4D Studio.

Student work examples.

For more information contact:

Min Sun Lee
Assistant Professor
Graphic Design
mlee5@montevallo.edu