Graphic Design - Drumright
Learn to connect art with technology, bring ideas to life, and open a vast world of creative career opportunities for yourself. Graphic Design explores a range of traditional art and design topics before concentrating on advanced production techniques needed to unleash artistic potential. Emphasis is placed on learning skills, techniques of compute graphics, electronic imaging and production.
Career Majors in Graphic Design
Career Major: Electronic Publishing Technician
Electronic Publishing Technicians use computer software, format and combine text, numerical data, photographs, charts, and other visual graphic elements to produce publication-ready material. This material includes books, business cards, calendars, magazines, newsletters and newspapers, packaging, slides and tickets.
Career Major: Graphic Illustrator
Graphic Illustrators plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to communications problems. They find the most effective way to get messages across inn print, electronic, and film media using a variety of methods such as color, type, illustration, photography, animation, and various print and layout techniques.
Career Major: Graphic Design-Production Technician
Graphic designers prepare sketches of layouts – by hand or with the aid of a computer – to illustrate their vision for the design. They select colors, sound, artwork, photography, animation, style of type and other visual elements for the design. They may create graphs and charts from date for use in publications, and they often consult with copywriters on any test that accompanies the design. In printing and publishing firms, graphic designers also may assist printers by electing the type of paper and ink for the publications and reviewing the mock-up design for errors before final publication. Graphic designers use specialized computer software to help create layouts and design elements and to program animated graphics.
Career Major: Production Artist for Print Technology
Production artists implement quick revisions to match a client’s, art director’s, or senior designer’s requests. Print-oriented production artists are often required to have software training in QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. Experience proofing, preflighting, preparing and press checking files is also extremely beneficial.
Career Major: Printing Technology Workforce Transition
Workforce Transition is designed to be delivered as an integrated component within the courses taken by the individual students. The course is designed for the development of leadership, personal development and employability skills.
Career Major: Visual Arts Production Artist
Production artists develop design concepts and review material that is to appear in periodicals, newspapers, and other printed or digital media. They decide how best to present information visually, so that it is eye-catching, appealing, and organized.
Career Major: Illustrator
An Illustrator draws or paints illustrations for use by various media to explain or adorn printed or spoken word.
Career Major: Advertising Designer
Students design, produce, exhibit, perform, write, and publish multimedia content, including visual and performing arts and design, journalism and entertainment services.
Earn college credit while attending Central Tech through our cooperative alliance agreement with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. College credit is awarded by appropriate higher education institutions through Articulation and/or Cooperative Alliance Agreements. Get specific details governing college credit at Central Tech from a counselor or recruiter.
