About the Program
Create images that inform, persuade, and inspire while considering cultural, societal, and technological impacts. Gain skills to design across mediums and build a portfolio that showcases your creativity and technical expertise. With hands-on projects and industry connections, you’ll be ready to make a meaningful impact in design.
The Polytechnic Experience
Explore social, environmental, and ethical issues through visual storytelling in photography, sculpture, and media design. In Visual Communication Design, you’ll gain hands-on experience creating work, receiving critiques in studio classes, and showcasing your art in exhibitions, including a senior Industry Night connecting you with design professionals.
Career Outcomes
Courses
×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design prepares students to create impactful visual designs across various media, addressing audience needs and functional communication. As part of the College of Environmental Design, the program emphasizes environmental, social, and ethical awareness, integrating these themes into its curriculum. Educators focus on fostering creativity, cultural diversity, and global awareness while promoting a strong foundation in conceptual and technological aspects of design. Students gain hands-on experience through juried exhibitions and an annual industry night, where they showcase their work to industry professionals. The capstone course, Professional Practices in Visual Communication Design, culminates in a portfolio review by experienced alumni, ensuring graduates are well-equipped for careers in communication design.
Financial Aid & Scholarships
The Sam Francis Foundation Endowed Scholarship
The Sam Francis Foundation endowment was established in 2020, with the goal of continuing the mission of Sam Francis, dedicated to the transformative power of art as a force for change.
Featured Faculty
Dr. Lee teaches a broad range of visual communication design courses and previously worked in Washington D.C. specializing in environmental graphic design for museum exhibitions at places like the Smithsonian Institution.Crystal Yachin Lee Professor and Program Coordinator of Visual Communication Design
Get Involved
AIGA at CPP
AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force. AIGA ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog is part of the largest community of design advocates in the country. We bring together practitioners, enthusiasts and patrons to amplify the voice of design and create the vision for a collective future. The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog chapter of the AIGA takes advantage of its strategic proximity to Los Angeles and hosts numerous events, including guest speakers, the 24-hour Design for Good Marathon, workshops, travel to Austin Texas’s SXSW conference, studio tours, and more.
