Courses

Content Direction I: Personal Vision and Commercial Practice

Explore the drivers, priorities, and processes that shape individual proactive visual practice through contemporary and historical examples. Discover how personal perspectives can inform commercial practice and learn about the creative role of collaboration when making work, and the impacts of different distribution channels in spreading ideas to a broader audience.

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Content Direction II: Professional Practice for Visual Creatives

Develop an awareness, process, and vocabulary for communicating in professional environments of advertising, branding, editorial, marketing, design, photography, videography, and multimedia production while building a personal brand. Learn how to bring creativity and vision to commissioned and commercial work. Create a professional portfolio, or deck, and strategies for networking and cultivating employment opportunities in Content Creation, or Creative Direction.

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Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design

The Cosmetics Visual Merchandising Design course is a specialized course that focuses on the principles of design in the context of cosmetic products and their visual presentation. The purpose of this course is to train students to design and execute effective visual merchandising strategies that will enhance the aesthetic appeal of cosmetic products in retail spaces.

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Design Ideation and Research

Explore the methods, process, and culture used to develop creative ideas while solving problems facing individuals, groups, businesses and society at large-primarily through a structured approach to product innovation.

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Designing with Intelligent Systems

As AI transforms the landscape of product design, today's designer must balance creative intent with technological fluency. This advanced course builds on a foundational understanding of Figma and introduces students to AI-assisted design, where automation, logic, and creativity intersect.

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Fashion Immersion Studio

Build foundational skills in sewing, patterning, and draping while learning the vocabulary used in the making of fashion, clothing, and soft goods. This course provides an overview of various needle arts, including machine and hand sewing, as well as pattern making. Students will gain the fundamental skills in the industrial straight, overlock, purl, cover stitch and zigzag machines, industrial pressing equipment, as well as fundamental patternmaking skills.

August 10-20, 2026, Steuben Hall

Fashion Photography: Past, Present, and Future

Reimagine the future of fashion and find your voice in the conversation. This experimental online laboratory will seek new paradigms for fashion photography, considering the imaging of attire and adornment at the crossroads of art and contemporary culture. Exploring myriad entry points, with industry iconoclasts as inspiration, we will strive to find a higher purpose as fashion photographers. We'll consider fashion photography's potential as cultural production through presentations, assignments, discussion, and feedback in a supportive virtual space. Emphasis will be given to artistic expression and imagining a new future for fashion photography. Photographers of all skill levels are welcome; the only pre-requisite is passion and curiosity about fashion and the lens.

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Global Retail Design

Develop and execute cohesive, high-quality retail environments that drive brand awareness and customer loyalty across global markets. Students will learn the critical process of transforming design concepts into detailed, buildable packages while strictly adhering to international brand standards and design codes.

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Integrated Advertising Campaigns - a Creative Focus

Delve into the creative and design aspects of developing impactful integrated advertising campaigns. Explore the principles, strategies, and techniques that drive successful campaign creation and execution. Through theoretical discussions, case studies, hands-on projects, and guest lectures from industry professionals, you will develop creative thinking, visual communication, and design skills to craft compelling and cohesive campaigns across various media channels.

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Original Thought

Develop your unique creative value to stay essential in the age of AI.As creators-artists and writers, graphic designers and art directors-AI is one of the most critical tools to use and master. At the same time, AI is mastering our skills. How can you use AI to enhance creativity, while making sure you outshine it? This course will teach you the art of original thought, and help you develop the one thing AI can never replace: your unique creative value.

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Photographic Style

This course will help students develop their own artistic identity by exploring the pillars of visualstyle: color, light, tonality, form, composition, and subject, and gain an understanding of howthese primary building blocks interact to build a visual syntax. Through regular shootingassignments, critiques, and lectures, students will develop a greater consistency in how theysee and express themselves, allowing their own individual interests, experiences, and values tocome together in their work.

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Purpose-Driven Marketing

The strongest brands don't just sell something, they stand for something. This course isn't about creating a public service announcement; it's about building a brand whose purpose inspires people to care, connect, and take action. In this hands-on studio course, you'll create a brand with a mission bigger than the product. You'll learn to turn human insight into a compelling brand identity through strategy, storytelling, and visual branding, using color, typography, imagery, and graphic systems. Bring your concept to life across multiple channels, from social media to experiential and emerging platforms, and develop a fully integrated, portfolio-ready campaign.

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The Future of Food: Design, Innovation, and Food Culture

Explore how designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and cultural innovators are shaping the future of food through storytelling, experimentation, and emerging design practices. This course examines the intersection of food, branding, experience design, media, community engagement, and cultural production. Through case studies, guest speakers, field research, and hands-on projects, students will develop skills in creative concept development, visual communication, trend forecasting, research, and critical analysis while learning to apply design thinking to real-world food-related challenges.

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Video Storytelling

Master the core production crafts of visual storytelling and independent filmmaking, using a personal, hands-on approach. Develop short-form projects on a weekly basis based on assigned exercises, emphasizing directorial choices, the cinematographic language, visual storytelling and directing actors. Self-generate your own films with actionable techniques of an independent filmaker.

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