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Cornish Programs

Design

Our Design program is founded on a simple idea: Design can make the world better. Whether you become an Illustrator or Animator, a Graphic Designer or Game Art Designer, an Experience Designer or Interaction Designer, your work can make the complex understandable—it can create beauty, delve into ugliness, inspire people, calm or confront them. Your work can create worlds, or help us all live in this one. Design can make the world better—for everyone.

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What To Expect

BFA
in Design

By the end of your second year, you’ll decide which BFA degree you’ll go for: a BFA in Design, a BFA in Game Art, a BFA in Illustration, a BFA in Animation, a BFA in Game Art, and a A BFA in Interaction Design. You can also add a Minor in Game Art or a Minor in Experience Design. Depending on your degree path, you may design logos, zines, or posters, create 2D and 3D art for games, user interfaces for app development, websites, and VR/AR. But you’ll also have a chance to develop your skills in drawing, lettering, type design, bookbinding, letterpress, screen printing and lithography.

Learn more about our BFA degree requirements and review our model programs/advising worksheets below in Explore Your Major.

Through Cornish’s Design program, I learned the importance of understanding design systems to strengthen my overall designs and projects.Kai Vano-Penaloza (DE '19)

 

Explore Your Major

 

 

We have learned to hold ourselves accountable to a higher standard of work than we ever thought possible.Emiliesa Lorraine Horwitz (’15)
At Cornish, I learned not to be afraid of stepping out of my comfort zone.Elliot Mangels (DE ‘19)

 

A fantastic network of teachers and alumni you won’t get anywhere else.Liz Holland (DE ‘16)

Program Faculty + Administration

Design | Film

Lyall Bush

Department Chair, Professor of Film
Design

Natalia Ilyin

Director of Design, Professor of Design History and Criticism
Design

Gala Bent

Professor of Illustration
Design

Susan Boye

Professor of Illustration
Design

Tiffany Laine De Mott

Associate Professor of Design, Animation Lead
Design

Jake Fleisher

Associate Professor of Design, UX Lead
Design

Lorena Howard-Sheridan

Associate Professor of Design, Type Lead
Design

Robynne Raye

Associate Professor of Design, Graphic Design Lead
Design

Junichi Tsuneoka

Director of Foundations, Assistant Professor of Design, Illustration Lead
Design
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Robert Baxter

Instructor, Design History and Criticism
Design
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David DeTogni

Instructor, Animation
Design

Ed Fotheringham

Instructor, Illustration
Design
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Julie Grant

Instructor, UX
Design
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David Lasky

Instructor, Illustration
Design

Dan Shafer

Instructor, Graphic Design
Core staff

Betzalel Massarano

3D Fabrication Resource Lab Technician
Core staff
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Bradley Taylor

Printmaking Studio Technician

Learn More

Design students using the lab, sewing and working with fabric

Your Experience

Student Life
Cornish Design Student standing on a chair in a studio, taking a photo of large scale work on the floor

Your First Year

Foundations
Final Cornish BFA Exhibition for design student

Admission Standards

Portfolio Requirements

Admissions Information

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Office of Admission

Main Campus Center
Floor 3
admission@cornish.edu
(800) 726-ARTS