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.
Cornish Design Blog Posts
Learn more from our faculty about Cornish Design and the community of designers and makers in our department (and beyond).
Press releases
Cornish College of the Arts Announces Folklore, an Exhibit by Alumnus Víctor Meléndez in partnership with the MEXAM NW
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Design Department
Faculty Emeriti
Jacob Kohn, Professor Emeritus, 1986-2017
