Communication Design

The selection of courses offers students the opportunity to further develop their technical skills, as well as develop a personal style and vision.

The Communication Design department at SRISA offers a selection of beginning, intermediate, and advanced design courses to students coming from Graphic Design, Communication Design, and Illustration programs.

The department focuses on offering courses that provide handson, real world design experience in the non-profit sector and theoretical courses focusing on design in relation to society, social movements, and sustainable and ethical design.

Course structure

The selection of courses offer Courses meet for twice a week for a total of 6 hours and are a mixture of presentations, lectures, demonstrations, openstudio and one-on-one work with professors.

Mid-term and final critiques are an important component for all design courses and students are required to attend and participate. Throughout the semester students develop multiple projects, the best of which are presented at the final student show. Some courses work on collaborative projects that are professionally printed and used to create a final collection. Fieldtrips to design fairs such as the Bologna Children’s book fair and visits to museums and private design studios are an important component to the Design program.