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Graphic Designers create books, websites, magazines, film titles, catalogs, typefaces, signage systems, television graphics, posters and postcards. From complex identity programs to single logos, graphic designers give a face and a "visual voice" to retail and cultural enterprises, to entertainment, manufacturing and service industries, governmental and political interests.

The work of the faculty and students in the Graphic Design department has been featured nationally in journals such as Visible Language, Design Issues, AIGA Journal and Loop (American Institute of Graphic Arts), and Statements (American Center for Design), as well as in Emigré, Print, Metropolis, and I.D. magazines. Internationally their writing and design has been represented in publications from Switzerland (Novum Gebrauchgraphik) to England (Visual Communication and Eye Magazine) to Russia (KAK). Faculty are frequently invited to lecture and present work at professional and educational design conferences. Students in the Department consistently win national merit scholarships as well as recognition for their work from institutions such as the American Center for Design and AIGA.

Students begin study in the discipline in the freshman year, and matriculate through a series of core, topic, and focus studios. The unique “in-residence” classroom structure grounds an open culture of exchange that fosters creative responses to a range of topical design issues.