Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
The Media Communication and Technology Program is designed for people interested in using, managing, and creating high-quality media-based materials for educational, business, industrial, and personal communication. The primary focus of the Program is on the production and application of the emerging digital technologies in video, multimedia, and World Wide Web. At the completion of their studies, the student receives either a 45-credit Certificate of Achievement in a specific area, or a 90-credit Associate of Arts Degree with an endorsement in a specific area.
Tim Kennedy
Director-Media Communications/Technology Program
Email: tkennedy@bcc.ctc.edu
Phone: 425/603-4058
www.bcc.ctc.edu

Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
Business and Communication Department. A two-year (six-quarter) program leads to a certificate or associate degree in graphic design and illustration. The program provides students with the skills and concepts necessary for graphic design and illustration. Drawing, painting, design, illustration, production art, computer applications, and Web design are included. Job opportunities: entry level positions with advertising agencies, newspapers, retail and in-house corporate art departments, free-lance design, design studios, and multimedia companies.
Phone: 206/587-3830
seattlecentral.edu/comm-design/

Everett Community College, Everett, WA
Timca (The Institute for Media and Creative Arts)
Everett Community College offers an AFA in the fields of Acting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Studio Art, Videography/Media, and Writing Arts. Other programs which work in tandem with timca are Journalism, Multimedia Web Production, and Music. Students concentrate on a chosen program of study while taking courses in related disciplines, gaining a broader understanding of the rich relationships inherent in the visual and performing arts. Students will complete the program with a portfolio of work for consideration by transfer institutions, evaluation by potential employers for entry level positions, or for personal consideration. Students must complete a minimum of 90 applicable credits with a cumulative GPA of 2.0.
Phone: 425/388-9280
Everett CC: Timca homepage

The Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Offers courses in Graphic Design, Computer Design Technology, Industrial Design, and other related areas of Design. Earn an associates of applied arts, or diploma certificate. Evening classes available. The AIS of Seattle, located on Seattle's waterfront in the heart of downtown, is an urban campus composed of three facilities.
Phone:800/275-2471
Local: 206/448-0900
http://www.ais.edu/

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Department of Art offers a number of degree options with major and minor concentrations in art education, art history, ceramics, design production, drawing, fibers, graphic design, new media, inter and mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, or in a combination of these areas as determined by the student's formal course plan.
Phone: 360/650-3660
Email: Patricia.eley@wwu.edu
Art Department Homepage
Student Work

Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
The mission of the Design Department at Cornish College of the Arts is to prepare students to succeed as professionals in the design field. Graduates of the design department will leave Cornish with an understanding of contemporary and historical themes and concepts, which affect and are affected by the work of designers.
Phone: 206/726-5151
http://www.cornish.edu/design/

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Visual Communications Design is the largest program in the Division and one of the largest in the School of Art. It has evolved over the last 20 years into an extremely professional program which is primarily aimed at visual communication in the corporate , institutional and municipal sectors. It is an intensive program emphasizing visual problem solving, organizational skills and information theory. The curriculum includes all phases of typography, information design, design systems, exhibition design, packaging publications design, photography, new media, and visual methods and processes. Visual Communications Design offers both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Phone: 206/543-0970
Fax: 206/685-1657
Email: uaskart@u.washington.edu


PORTLAND EDUCATION RESOURCES

Art Institute of Portland (AIPD) Programs include Advertising, Apparel Design, Apparel Accessory Design, Design Management, Digital Film & Video, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design,Industrial Design, Interior Design, Interactive Media Design, Media Arts & Animation, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics and Visual & Game Programming.
1122 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209
P: 503. 228. 6528
V: 503.228.2895
www.aipd.artinstitutes.edu

Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC)
Graphic Design Program
Integrated Media Department
contact: Christina Maier
maierc@mhcc.edu
26000 SE Stark Street
Gresham, OR 97030
Phone: 503/491-6992
Fax: 503/491-6064
www.mhcc.edu

Oregon State University (OSU)
OSU’s nationally respected graphic design program is the largest in the Northwest. The program provides professional preparation for a career in graphic design. Students encompass typography, communication theory, computer-assisted design, packaging, graphic logo development, and production processes.
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
P: 541.737.4745
www.oregonstate.edu

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
Designed to prepare students to work in commercial communication. The Graphic Design program provides closely supervised & structured learning as well as independent problem solving.
1241 NW Johnson St.
Portland, OR 97209
P: 503.226.4391
F: 503.226.3587
www.pnca.edu

Portland State University (PSU)
The Department of Art offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in four concentrations of study: art history, drawing/painting/printmaking, sculpture and graphic design.
Art Building
2000 SW 5th Ave. #310
Portland, OR 97201
P: 503.725.3515
Mailing Address: PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207
www.art.pdx.edu

University of Oregon
Digital Arts are concerned with the development of graphics, sound, interactivities, and a broad range of creative applications such as web art, games, animation, video, performance, installations, and other uncharted forms as sites of communication, expression and personal inquiry. The department offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Digital Arts. Department of Art Multimedia Design Program
5232 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Multimedia Design Program Secretary: Heidi Howes
541.346-3610 / hhowes@uoregon.edu
darkwing.uoregon.edu


BAY AREA EDUCATION RESOURCES

University of California Berkeley Extension
1995 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510/642-4111 [Registration]
Internet address: http://www.unex.berkeley.edu
UC Extension Online: http://learn.berkeley.edu
Extension program for certificate in Graphic Design

Expression Center for New Media
6601 Shellmound St
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone: 877/833-8800
http://www.expression.edu/index.html

Art Institute of San Francisco
1170 Market Street (at U.N. Plaza)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415/865-0198
Toll-Free: 888/493-3261
Fax: 415/863-6344 [Admissions]
http://aisf.artinstitutes.edu

California College of Arts and Crafts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415/703-9500
Fax: 415/703-9539
CCAC Design Program

California State University at Hayward
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542
Phone: 510/885-3000
Multimedia Studies Programs

San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone: 415/338-7620
Digital Arts Program

San Jose State University
School of Art and Design
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192
Phone: 408/924-4320
Fax: 408/924-4326
Design Programs

AcademyX Web Design Training
601 Montgomery Street, ste 409
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415/392-8024
AcademyX.com


NATIONAL EDUCATION RESOURCES


Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Graphic Design Department at RISD educates you in the art and science of visual communication, stressing the professional practice of design. Graphic designers combine the human factor and technology with aesthetics in the production of typography, signage, publications, identity systems, packaging, film graphics, posters, computer interface design, and other forms of communication.
Site: http://www.risd.edu/

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art Center College of Design is an international center for art and design education. An independent, nonprofit, four-year college, Art Center offers a bachelor of fine arts or bachelor of science degree in nine majors: Advertising, Environmental Design, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design and Packaging, Illustration, Photography, Product Design, and Transportation Design. Graduate programs in fine art, design, and critical studies lead to the master of fine arts, master of science, or master of arts degree.
Site: http://www.artcenter.edu

Royal College of Art, London, UK
The aims of the College are: to attract the best postgraduate talent, from Britain and overseas, for a professional life in art and design, to speculate through research on long-term issues affecting the practice of art and design, to continually investigate and challenge accepted concepts of art, design and communication, in relation to industry, commerce and society at large. The Royal College of Art has been achieving these aims through the quality of its teaching and research and through its successful collaboration with industry for over 150 years. The College sees the World Wide Web as an invaluable way of helping it to continue to pursue these aims through contact and collaboration with individuals and organisations both in the UK and overseas.
Site: http://www.rca.ac.uk/

Illinois Institute of Technology & Design, IL
Since its founding, the Institute of Design has attracted students and faculty from around the world: people who have eagerly experimented with new media and have developed important new processes, concepts, and theories. ID continues to be a small community of very creative and highly motivated individuals designing information, images, products, and systems that improve people's lives. Typically, half of the graduate students have been professional designers and half come from the United States and the rest from other countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. There is great diversity among the community, yet also a great bond: both students and faculty choose to come to the Institute of Design because it focuses, more than any other design school, on the invention, demonstration, and teaching of new processes and theories of design.
Site: http://www.id.iit.edu/welcome.html

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
The Communication Design program is a 4-year undergraduate program in which students gain an understanding and mastery of the principles, theories, and skills of communication design. We define communication design as the effective presentation of ideas and information by means of type and image, whether in the traditional medium of print or in the new digital medium that supports interactive computer displays, multimedia communication technology, and information systems. This is a forward looking program. While we foster a respect for the rich history of book, letterform, and print design, we are also fascinated with the potential that technology and new theories of human-machine interaction hold for the design of future modes of communication.
Site: http://www.cmu.edu:8001/cfa/design/