Jenna LewandowskiArt is an essential skill that graphic design majors use everyday to create digital art. Students majoring in graphic design have to be able to understand the concept of art and what is appealing to the eye. They need to learn how to catch someone’s attention and what stands out to other people.
Art teaches them about contrasting colors and complementary colors, which is needed in order to know how to make something stand out or create a specific mood. Art allows the students to get in touch with their creative side so their work is their vision that has their influence written all over it
“I think art is very important for graphic design majors because you need to know details in art to make details in your designs,” junior Sean Fogel, graphic design major, said.
Junior Michelle Murray, a graphic design major, said she wants to go into magazine layout with her degree. She has worked as an intern over the summer in her hometown of Baltimore at a regional newspaper company where she did advertisement placements in the paper. She has taken many classes including computer graphics, computer publication, illustrating and art history that taught her about the progression of art and the different styles that art has underwent to get to where it is today. She said art history was a very interesting class to take and she liked it very much. She also took digital imagining, which was her favorite class. She enjoyed being able to take images from a picture and move them around or add an image to another setting.
There is a good market out in the world for graphic design majors. Majoring in graphic designs can take students many places. It can take them from magazine layouts and jobs in the communications field, to jobs in the advertising and business industry, to computer programming and web designing and other jobs in the field of computer science.
Art plays a major role and it is very important in the lives of people that work and have majored in the field of graphic design.
However, Fogel said, “I wanted to do computer animation, but with my job experience, I may not find a job.”
Posted to the web by Angelina Wagner
