NIU - Design and Media Arts

Seek 2008 Welcomes Sagmeister
Graphic Designer Stefan Sagmeister will present at Northern Illinois University on October 25, 2008 at Jack Arends Hall.

Master the Intricacies
The Visual Communication area of study, currently the largest program specialization in the School of Art, provides an edu-cation that leads to employment in a variety of fields, including publication design, corporate identity, display design, and package design. Instruction in visual communication stresses an orderly and systematic approach to solving design problems. Students gain a solid grounding in typography by examining the technical, aesthetic, and functional requirements of type. They also master the intricacies of preparing communications for printing and publication. Professionals from the Chicago area, a principal publishing center, frequently evaluate student work, helping prepare majors for the practice of graphic design.

Chris Strong: Year in Review
Students are exposed to a variety of approaches, and importance is attached to contemporary developments.

Inventive Techniques
The Photography field of study is intended for individuals who wish to explore the medium as fine art. Students are exposed to a variety of approaches, and importance is attached to contemp-orary developments, new ideas, and inventive techniques, without neglecting the valid traditional considerations of photo-graphic processes.In the curriculum, photography students have the opportunity to work in a variety of ways, ranging from experimental techniques and mixed media applications to documentary projects, studio methods, and introductory commercial aspects of photography.

Anime: The Lost Art
The end result is a BFA degree that prepares the student to respond to existing and rapidly changing technical and creative markets

Intersection between Art
The Time Arts program consists of course work within the areas of animation, video art, audio art, and interactive art. Rather than focusing on one area, students create, explore and study in all of these disciplines, with an emphasis of the overall integration of media elements. The end result is a BFA degree that prepares the student to respond to existing and rapidly changing technical and creative markets, as well as emerging fields and advanced study at the graduate level. Time Arts students focus on the expressive and creative practice of art-making at the intersection between art, technology and science. Our goal is to define and establish new fields of expression, practice and critical discourse in the context of emerging technologies and cultural art forms. Students in the Time Arts BFA Program specialize in animation, media arts, interactive processes, generative algorithmic art, performative practices, acoustic/sonic output, video and emergent forms of media art.

Design/Media Arts Office: Room 314
Office Phone: (815) 753-0309
Office Fax: (815) 753-0669

Listed below are offices which may be contacted
concerning various university services to students. Those offices which may be accessed in Illinois using the toll-free telephone number (800) 892-3050 include Undergraduate Admissions, Student Financial Aid, and Educational Services and Programs (ESP).

Undergraduate Admissions, (815) 753-0446
Graduate Admissions, (815) 753-0395
Student Financial Aid, (815) 753-1395
Student Housing Services, (815) 753-1525
Educational Services and Programs, (815) 753-0201
Center for Access-Ability Resources, (815) 753-1303
University Honors Program, (815) 753-0694
Orientation and Campus Information, (815) 753-1535
Transfer Center , (815) 753-0687
Center for Black Studies, (815) 753-1709
Center for Latin American Studies, (815) 753-1531
International Student and Faculty office, (815) 753-1346

How to Locate the Art Building
201C Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL. 60115
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