Online Illustrative Design Degree
Online Bachelor of Fine Arts
"*" indicates required fields
Draw Your Future Into Reality
What is Illustrative Design? Our online program in Illustrative Design requires an illustrative approach to solving design problems, whether it be logo design, motion graphics, data visualization, etc. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustrative Design provides web-based students with a hybrid degree combining curriculum from both graphic design and illustration. Students learn core technical skills in illustration design and apply those skills to projects found in graphic design. RMCAD’s accredited Online Illustrative Design Program will help provide you with the technical, aesthetic, critical, and practical skills necessary for career success.
Online Illustrative Design Program Overview
As an Online Illustrative Design student, you’ll refine your illustrative drawing skills as an illustrator and apply them in graphic design. You’ll hone your skills with hands-on training that prepares you for the real world of professional design. We keep online visual arts degree classes small so virtual students can experience the kind of individual attention and support that allows them to blossom as artists.
The Online Illustrative Design Program incorporates a focus on the development of cultural, communication and design competencies, professional practice, and critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in the profession. At RMCAD, we aim to increase and combine intellectual, artistic and design thinking, planning, and practice to best prepare e-learning students for dynamic business environments.
Online Illustrative Design Program Highlights
Solve Communication + Design Problems
Students demonstrate communication competency in their understanding of basic business practices, including the ability to organize design projects and to work productively as a member of a team.
Students demonstrate cultural competencies in the ability to describe and respond to audiences and contexts that communication and design solutions must address.
Identity Design + Design Systems
Students demonstrate design competencies in the ability to create and develop a visual form in response to communication problems.
Students demonstrate communication competency in the ability to solve communication + design problems.
Industry-Based Software
Students demonstrate design competencies and proficiency in media and digital skills, and mechanical skills such as drawing and the use of value and color.
Typography + Layout Design
Students demonstrate design competencies in understanding: symbolic representation, principles of visual organization/compositional theory and information hierarchy, and the proper use of typography and its various applications.
Media + Digital Skills
Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong use and proficiency in media and digital skills, and mechanical skills such as drawing and the use of value and color.
Portfolio Development
Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong sense of personal style.
Students demonstrate cultural competencies in recognizing the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape design decisions.
Students demonstrate design competencies in the ability to create and develop visual form in response to communication problems.
Liberal Arts
The Liberal Arts curriculum is an exciting part of every student’s academic and creative journey at RMCAD. These courses provide the opportunity for students to engage with complex questions and ideas to develop critical thinking skills, a global consciousness, and awareness of art historical foundations that are essential for their intellectual, creative, and personal growth.
Global Consciousness
The curious engagement with communities, perspectives, and narratives that do not match our own offers the opportunity to see one’s personal and creative role in our local, national, and global communities.
Critical Awareness
The willingness to ask questions and resist easy answers & simplistic dualities offers the opportunity to more clearly understand the complexity and multifaceted reality of history, creativity, and human communities.
Information Literacy
The ability to read closely, critique freely, and seek additional verifiable information offers the opportunity to more holistically discern the veracity of the information that inundates our lives.
Online Illustrative Design Degree Requirements
The Online Illustrative Design Program combines intellectual, artistic and design thinking, planning, and of course, practice, to get your creative thinking out of the box.
Tech + Tools
The Illustrative Design Online Program offers a course curriculum to enhance your specific needs. Our illustration design courses offer small class sizes for an enhanced distance learning experience and personalized attention from skilled instructors.
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe AfterEffects
Illustrative Design Careers
Where do you see yourself after you graduate? At RMCAD, we help prepare our alumni to take on the world of art and design. With an Online Illustrative Design Degree in hand, graduates are equipped to launch their career in a variety of design fields.
Potential Career Paths
- Graphic Designer
- Motion Designer
- Print Designer
- Information Designer
WHY WAIT? APPLY NOW
Student Work + Success
Stories @ RMCAD
Three Easy Ways An Artist Can Build An Online Brand
One of the best ways to make a name for yourself as an artist is your digital brand. By sharing an online artist portfolio with a wider audience, artists can build a following, a network,
The Impact of Typography in Effective Graphic Design
Typography, or the art of type, is one of numerous core concepts in graphic design. If you’ve ever visited a website or viewed an ad with a font that was difficult to read, then you
11 Careers You Can Pursue as a Graphic Designer
Did you know that there are over 270,000 graphic designers employed in the United States? A career as a graphic designer might be right for you if you enjoy creating digital art with tools such
Illustrative Design Faculty
RMCAD’s team of Illustrative Design instructors are here to watch you grow and succeed throughout your journey in this online program.
Illustrative Design Events
Stay up to date on the latest Illustration Design events. Check it out!
Ready to Combine Your Creativity and design?
"*" indicates required fields