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College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
Art, Art History, and Design

Graphic Design

Graphic designers inform, educate, persuade or advocate through the interaction of words and images. The graphic design program at WSU empowers students to think broadly and critically about design. We train students to focus on the informational and problem-solving nature of graphic design while learning to effectively visualize their design ideas with professionalism, impact, and social and environmental responsibility.

Career opportunities

  • Art direction
  • Creative direction
  • Advertising
  • Digital design/UI/UX design
  • Product development
  • Package design
  • Brand development
  • Exhibition design
  • Information design
  • Instructional design
  • Environmental design 
  • Marketing
  • Print/publishing
  • Typography
  • Multimedia arts
  • Animation
  • Illustration
  • Apparel graphics

Student work gallery

White poster with large grey letter D, overlapping the numbers 1701 and next to the word Detroit, above the repeating words July 24 Poster for the movie Psycho showing small text and a large geometric illustration of a red knife on a white hotel room key ring with the number one on a black background. A red dust jacket with yellow geometric shapes for the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Poster with title ‘Fruits of Bangladesh’ with illustrations of pomegranate, jack fruit, guava, hog plum, starfruit, mango, bananas, and lychee. Variety of books with uniquely designed book covers arranged in a diagonal pattern. Poster with title ‘Test Kitchen’ showing 9 schematic drawings of a kitchen floorpan with various lines to convey movement around a kitchen and different types of activities. Poster with title ‘8 Ways to Cook a Potato’ with illustration of cutting board with potato chips, french fries, mashed potatoes and other types of cooked potatoes. Poster with black letters on a grey background for the font style Galestalt, showing the word in large letter across the middle of the poster and the upper case alphabet across the top half and the lower case alphabet across the bottom. Poster showing six different typeface designs with complete alphabets, numbers, and symbols. Poster with photograph of blocks of types above 5 columns of uniquely designed book covers. Poster with title ‘The Perfect Charcuterie Board’ with illustration of platter of cheeses, sliced meats, and various fruits. Yellow poster for the font style Century, showing the numbers 1895 in a vertical orientation to the left and the letters Q,B,N,R in the center of the page, each letter is annotated with notes describing characteristics of the font. Full alphabet, numbers, An open book on a white backdrop, with cover facing up and showing the title Murals of Detroit and showing numerous photos of murals in a gridded layout.

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