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School of Communication Arts

The communication arts engage the use of visual language to communicate ideas, translate concepts into tangible images, capture viewers’ interests, inform and entertain. At SCAD, students learn to clearly communicate visual information across a variety of platforms in the constantly evolving world of art and design. The curriculum is designed to build technical skills, hone aesthetic sensibilities and teach creative problem-solving.

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Advertising

Advertising professionals combine skills in design, writing, strategic planning and branding for use in a wide range of media. Their role is to come up with "the big idea" that communicates an advertising message creatively, to reach and influence specific target audiences.
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Graphic design

Graphic Design

At SCAD, graphic design is about more than problem-solving, as students take on the creative challenge of defining what the problems are, and what opportunities exist for new solutions.
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Illustration

For a variety of outlets-from book publishing to advertising and from product packaging to the Internet-illustrators use their skills to capture viewers' interest, translating concepts into tangible images.
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Illustration Design

Merging the skills to conceive and execute concepts into tangible images, illustration designers have flexibility across a wide range of professional communication outlets.
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Sequential Art

The field of sequential art encompasses graphic novels, comic books, Manga, comic strips, children's books and storyboards for animation and film. Sequential artists combine words and pictures to form entertaining and effective narratives.
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Minors

Advertising, graphic design, illustration, scientific illustration, sequential art, storyboarding

Contact School of Communication Arts

soca@scad.edu

Contact Admission

E-mail

Atlanta

scadatl@scad.edu

Hong Kong

admission_hk@scad.edu

Savannah, eLearning

admission@scad.edu

Phone

Atlanta
404.253.2700 or 877.722.3285

Hong Kong
852.2253.8000

Savannah, eLearning
800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100

Mailing

Atlanta
Hong Kong
Savannah
eLearning

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Events

Celebrate commencement, new alumni with Greyboy Allstars
May 31, 2013

News

April 01, 2013
SCAD to host International Festival April 6
March 29, 2013
SCAD to hold Sidewalk Arts Festival April 27
March 06, 2013
SCAD equestrian named regional champs
Jan. 25, 2013
SCAD to host annual SCADDY awards Feb. 15

Recognition

Robert Navarro to intern at Weber Shandwick
Robert Navarro (B.F.A., graphic design, 2013) met with Weber Shandwick at the 2013 Career Fair and has accepted an internship in the company's Chicago office.
Roger Haughie on team that won Emmy
M.F.A. motion media design student Roger Haughie (B.F.A., graphic design, 1998) is a member of the NBC Sports team that won an Emmy at the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Technical Team Studio for Games of the XXX Olympiad. Haughie is listed among the graphics operators.
American Greetings hires Kelsey Cronkhite
M.F.A. graphic design student Kelsey Cronkhite has accepted a position as a line designer at American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio. Her job offer came after she interviewed with talent acquisition specialist Dan Weiss, who was in Savannah for the Sidewalk Arts Festival.
C&R Press publishes Chris Bundy book
"Baby You're a Rich Man," a book by writing professor Chris Bundy, has been published by C&R Press. The book, illustrated by SCAD alumnus Max Currie (B.F.A., sequential art, 2012), follows the story of Ken Richman, a down-on-his-luck, B-level variety star on Japanese television who is forced to go into hiding when he becomes the target of an escaped prisoner. "Baby You're a Rich Man" will be released in May.