Design
Design can make the world better. Whether it’s as a graphic designer, game designer, user experience designer, illustrator, or animator, your work can make the complex understandable. Your work can create beauty, delve into ugliness, inspire people, calm, or confront them. You can create worlds, or help us all live in this one.
BFA in Design
What Will You Learn
as A Design Major at Cornish?
You’ll take core courses in design fundamentals. By the end of your first year, you’ll choose a degree program in design, game art, illustration, animation, or interaction design.
Depending on your degree path, you will learn in a project-based curriculum. Students will create brand identities, publications, logos, and 2D & 3D art for games, build worlds, construct user interfaces, develop apps and websites, and work in emerging media such as virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR).
You will develop skills in drawing, typography, packaging/product design, bookbinding, letterpress, and printmaking.
You may also choose to minor in game art or experience design.
Explore Your Major
Student Work
Design Department
Lyall Bush
Department Chair, Professor of Film
Natalia Ilyin
Director of Design, Professor of Design History and Criticism
Gala Bent
Professor of Illustration
Susan Boye
Professor of Illustration
Tiffany Laine De Mott
Associate Professor of Design, Animation Lead
Jake Fleisher
Associate Professor of Design, UX Lead
Lorena Howard-Sheridan
Associate Professor of Design, Type Lead
Robynne Raye
Associate Professor of Design, Graphic Design Lead
Junichi Tsuneoka
Director of Foundations, Assistant Professor of Design, Illustration Lead
Robert Baxter
Instructor, Design History and Criticism
David DeTogni
Instructor, Animation
Ed Fotheringham
Instructor, Illustration
Julie Grant
Instructor, UX
David Lasky
Instructor, Illustration
Dan Shafer
Instructor, Graphic Design
Betzalel Massarano
3D Fabrication Resource Lab Technician
Bradley Taylor
Printmaking Studio Technician
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