Graphic Communications

Students who enter either the AAS or AFA program will learn graphic design fundamentals using modern technology to learn commercial standards in typography, print and on-screen layout, advertising design, interactive and web design, illustration, and motion graphics. Within the AAS program, there are two options to choose from:

Graphic and Interactive Design: Learn typography and layout for print, motion design, and online and interactive media.
Illustration and Animation: Communicate ideas through handmade and digitally crafted conceptual drawings as applied to motion media design.

The Digital Arts and Technology Alliance (DATA) at STLCC-Meramec supports cutting-edge digital technology courses and workshops through an interdisciplinary partnership of career and digital media programs.

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

In these TED Talks, some of the world's greatest designers share their creative process. Hear from Philippe Starck, Frank Gehry, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, MoMA's Paola Antonelli and more.

Where does creativity come from? How can you nurture your own? Watch TED Talks from creative people like Steve Jobs, architect Frank Gehry, designer Philippe Starck, writer Elizabeth Gilbert and more.