According to the University of Arkansas, "The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design - often also referred to as visual design, visual communication design or visual communication - will prepare students to be proficient makers and thoughtful problem seekers and solvers in a four-year professional degree program. Students will work seamlessly across a range of media, working to identify appropriate solutions for audience and context. Students will be exposed to a rigorous curriculum covering research, theory, critical thinking, professional practices, conceptual idea-making, all while asking them to formally experiment and refine. The Graphic Design degree focuses on: typography, interactivity, branding and design research, each identified as strongly connected to the design industry, while incorporating the university research initiatives of the University of Arkansas."
Ability to Learn Digital Design Platforms | Accurate |
Adobe Acrobat | Adobe Creative Suite |
Adobe Flash | Adobe Illustrator |
Adobe InDesign | Adobe Photoshop |
Aesthetic Sense | Analytical |
Arithmetic | Assertiveness |
Attention to Detail | Color Sense |
Communication | Composition |
Computer | Confidence |
Consultation | Creativity |
Creative Thinking | Critical Thinking |
CSS | Customer Service |
Deadline Management | Decision Making |
Design | Design Strategy |
Dreamweaver | Establishing Rapport |
Estimating Costs | Excel |
Flash | Flexibility |
HTML | Illustration |
Initiative | Interpersonal |
iWork Keynote | Layout |
Listening | Marketing |
Multitasking | Negotiation |
Networking | Organizational |
Patience with Customers/Staff | Perceptive about Client Needs |
Photography | Photoshop |
Planning | PowerPoint |
Presentation | Printing |
Prioritizing | Production |
Project Management | Proofreading |
QuarkXpress | Sales |
Sketching | Spacing |
Storyboard Creation | Strategic Thinking |
Teamwork | Time Management |
Typography | Usability |
Verbal Communications | Vision |
Visual Communications | Visual Problem Solving |
Working Collaboratively | Working Independently |
Written Communications | Writing |
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