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By TACP Staff on November 03, 2021
Graphic designers are artistic professionals who use their creative and technical skills to communicate messages in a visual manner. They work in a variety of industries such as IT, marketing, publishing, and non-profit. Graphic designers must be both ‘left brained’ and ‘right brained’, as such, post-secondary graphic design programs integrate both the art and the science of communicating through this medium.
The field continues to evolve and so graphic designers are continually challenged to use inventive thinking in order to communicate spatial and artistic messages to a variety of audiences. The colleges below offer the best in art education and rigorous academic standards.
A graphic design degree is a key that allows graduates to enter the workforce with a skillset that makes them very valuable to potential employers. Quite often however, these individuals face stiff competition for available jobs in the industry due to the number of skilled artists attracted to careers as graphic designers.
According to employment data aggregated by Careerinfonet.org, the employment forecast for graphic designers in Kentucky is very promising. Job prospects in the state for graphic designers is expected to increase by 14% annually from now until 2020, which equates to approximately 90 new jobs per year and consists primarily of new job growth.
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