illustrative Design
Online Bachelor of Fine Arts
Draw Your Future Into Reality
What is Illustrative Design? Our online program in Illustrative Design requires an illustrative approach to solving design problems, whether it be logo design, motion graphics, data visualization, etc. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustrative Design provides students with a hybrid degree combining curriculum from both Graphic Design and Illustration. Students learn core technical skills in Illustration and apply those skills to projects found in Graphic Design. RMCAD’s Illustrative Design Program will help provide you with the technical, aesthetic, critical, and practical skills necessary for career success.
Program Overview
As an Illustrative Design student, you’ll refine your skills as an illustrator and apply them in graphic design. You’ll hone your skills with hands-on training that prepares you for the real world of professional design. We keep classes small so students can experience the kind of individual attention and support that allows them to blossom as artists.
The Online Illustrative Design program incorporates a focus on the development of cultural, communication and design competencies, professional practice, and critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in the profession. At RMCAD, we aim to increase and combine intellectual, artistic and design thinking, planning, and practice to best prepare students for dynamic business environments.
Program Highlights
Solve Communication + Design Problems
Students demonstrate communication competency in their understanding of basic business practices, including the ability to organize design projects and to work productively as a member of a team.
Students demonstrate cultural competencies in the ability to describe and respond to audiences and contexts that communication and design solutions must address.
Identity Design + Design Systems
Students demonstrate design competencies in the ability to create and develop a visual form in response to communication problems.
Students demonstrate communication competency in the ability to solve communication + design problems.
Industry-Based Software
Students demonstrate design competencies and proficiency in media and digital skills, and mechanical skills such as drawing and the use of value and color.
Typography + Layout Design
Students demonstrate design competencies in understanding: symbolic representation, principles of visual organization/compositional theory and information hierarchy, and the proper use of typography and its various applications.
Media + Digital Skills
Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong use and proficiency in media and digital skills, and mechanical skills such as drawing and the use of value and color.
Portfolio Development
Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong sense of personal style.
Students demonstrate cultural competencies in recognizing the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape design decisions.
Students demonstrate design competencies in the ability to create and develop visual form in response to communication problems.
Online Degree Requirements
The Online Illustrative Design program combines intellectual, artistic and design thinking, planning, and of course, practice, to get your creative thinking out of the box.
Tech + Tools
The Illustrative Design Online program offers course curriculum to enhance your specific needs. Our courses offer small class sizes for an enhanced learning experience and personalized attention from skilled instructors.
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe AfterEffects
Illustrative Design Careers
Where do you see yourself after you graduate? At RMCAD, we help prepare our alumni to take on the world of art and design. With an Illustrative Design Degree in hand, graduates are equipped to launch their career in a variety of design fields, including:
Potential Career Paths
- Graphic Designer
- Motion Designer
- Print Designer
- Information Designer
Let's Design Your Future NOW
Student Work + Success
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Illustrative Design Faculty
RMCAD’s team of Illustrative Design instructors are here to watch you grow and succeed throughout your journey in this online program.
Illustrative Design Events
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