The Graphic Design BFA program at Cleveland Institute of Art takes an expansive approach to the discipline, seeing it as a means to make meaning, shape culture, and build community.
As a student here, you develop your craft as a designer with a balance between rigor and play. You learn how to find ideas through research and develop concepts through hands-on making with various creative tools, spanning analog and digital modes, and emerging and traditional technologies. With a depth in typography and form-making, you learn how to visually communicate ideas, messages, and experiences across systems of media—in print, on screen, and in space. Ultimately, you learn how to think critically about and beyond your own lived experience, and grow into a creative risk-taker equipped to thrive in a variety of career paths.