The Communications Design program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn is one of the world's leading design programs, integrating advertising, illustration and graphic design in one course of study. Through its graphic design component, Pratt teaches students the core of both conceptual and technical skills to equip them to be intelligent designers. More than learning how to interpret design content, students train to be content developers and generators. Graphic designers with degrees from Pratt are known worldwide as design professionals, and many are authors and authorities in the industry. Pratt has academic and career opportunities with Columbia Medical School and Smart Design.
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
718-636-3600
pratt.edu
Musashino Art University, one of the leading design schools in Asia, offers a Visual Communication Design Program focusing on essential design concepts---from spatial, corporeal and temporal components to the recognition of personal preferences and differences and collaborative production. More than teaching design itself, MAU also teaches the relevance of design to society through three core subjects: writing space, information and environmental design. These three areas focus on human behavior in communicating, the role of technology and how global growth and advancement affect the environment. MAU holds academic partnerships with University of the Arts (London), Pratt Institute (U.S.) and Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy); additionally, MAU has business collaborations with companies such as Toshiba, IKEA, Casio and Nissan. MAU offers a master's in arts management and the science of design, wherein students gain hands-on experience with top companies.
Musashino Art University
1-736 Ogawa-cho
Kodaira-shi, Tokyo 187-8505
Japan
musabi.ac.jp/english/
Although a relatively new program, the Communication Design course at Polytechnic University of Milan is competitive worldwide and aims to produce professionals who possess a spectrum of knowledge fit to work in corporate communications, web design, advertising and cultural institutions. Graduates learn various techniques, technologies and instruments used in design communication; representations of different media such as visual, typographic, photographic and video; image manipulation and visual language. Students also master a variety of technological techniques such as multimedia design and information technology. Politecnico also teaches the foundations of graphic design, such as its history and evolution, semiotics and languages of online and offline communication. Politecnico has academic collaborations with Harvard Business School and Tongji University in China. Leading employers of Politecnico graduates are Ferrari, Fiat and the Continuum. The school offers a degree in strategic design and an MBA focusing on design management.
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
I-20133 Milan, Italy
(011)-39-02-2399-2250
www.polimi.it