Communicate with words and images to persuade, inform and entertain an audience
Write, record and edit audio for film, video, music, web and broadcast media
Capture, edit, manipulate digital photography for a wide range of media applications
Build narrative sequences with camera, lens, sound, light and post-production
Explore relationships between words, images, sound, motion, time and space in digital media

Gallery: GRAPHIC DESIGN: Second Year Projects

Chocolate Branding Project

Each student developed a logo, ads and packaging for line of sustainably-grown cocoa products. Barbara Miller's solution, below, features cocoa grown in the Solomon Islands. Second year DIgital Photography students took photos of the mocked-up packaging designs. Books documenting the design process were printed via Blurb and Lulu.

GD250: Corporate Identity Systems. Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign sofware.

Shoe Catalog Project

Students designed an 8-page direct mail piece intended to drive traffic to Zappos.com

GD251: Digital Publication Design. InDesign sofware.

Craigslist Magazine Project

Students designed an 8-page prospectus to demonstrate what the popular online marketplace, craigslist, would look like in print. These are the covers.

GD251: Digital Publication Design. InDesign sofware.

Calendar Project

Students designed a twelve month calendar that used Dr. Wally Shriner's Eye on Nature series writings.

Clae Spratt's 12 double-sided cards fit into a CD calendar case for both storage and display. GD251. InDesign sofware.

Kinetic Type Flash Movie Project

Adobe CS3 Flash software was used to create these 30-second kinetic type videos.

L - R: Seb Nitu, Von Vinhasa, Oscar Godson, Naomi Peffer, Sara Granberg

IM: Graphic Design

Chelsey Brislawn

Bring-A-Book Brochure

Winner of design competition to promote Globio's literacy project in third world countries.

Internships:


OPB
Oregon Zoo
OMSI
Portland Art Museum

Graduate Story

Gus Nicklos, '99

is a brand, typography and design specialist based in Portland. He has worked on global campaigns for companies such as Nike, Starbucks, Adidas and Jantzen. Recently he has focused his creative energy in building brands for socially relevant and green business start ups. Formerly a senior designer at Totem (UK), Gus currently works at HERENOW creative network.