VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

The Visual Communications Program offers students a diversified, creative business background in visual presentation, experiential design, retail and event marketing, and store planning, with an emphasis on the fashion and entertainment industries. Students benefit from exposure to practical and theoretical visual techniques. Courses include presentation design, color theory, concept visualization, trend forecasting, and computer graphics.

What Our Students Learn In our program, students learn the creative and technical skills to create visual and experiential design concepts for a variety of projects.

Why FIDM Students work on real-world projects with industry professionals from companies including Giant Spoon Agency, WindowsWear.com, DITA Luxury Eyewear, Living Spaces, Set + Stage Creative, and PAVE/Planning, Visual Education Partnership who partner with FIDM to create internships for students in the program.

Students leave the program proficient not only in their hard skills like quick sketching, InDesign, SketchUp, Illustrator, and Photoshop, but also confident in soft skills like collaboration and negotiation. They develop a full understanding of attention to detail, problem solving, and what goes on in the world of art and culture and how it applies to their work.