What is the difference between Commercial/Advertising Art Major and Design&Visual Communication Major?
I was looking at Collegeboard and I saw these two different majors that I am both strongly interested in.
Which one fits better to pursue into becoming an art director or a creative director?
Well, the majors aren’t called that at colleges. that’s just collegeboard. the degrees are BA fine art, BFA fine art, art history, graphic design, interior design, illustration design, museum studies, art director, and art managment. those are in the art department.
In the business department, there’s visual communications. it usually breaks down into design based marketing, web design, etc. You take a couple arts courses, but the majority is business and computer science classes.
if you want to be and art director, you need to to art history with a minor in business or art criticism or some colleges have arts management majors which teach you specifically about art and how to market it/represent an artist. it merges art/art history/marketing/and business.
If you are more interested in web design, journalism, marketing, or just the business/tech side of the job then you can do visual communications. BUT it has LITTLE to do with art
June 15th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Well, the majors aren’t called that at colleges. that’s just collegeboard. the degrees are BA fine art, BFA fine art, art history, graphic design, interior design, illustration design, museum studies, art director, and art managment. those are in the art department.
In the business department, there’s visual communications. it usually breaks down into design based marketing, web design, etc. You take a couple arts courses, but the majority is business and computer science classes.
if you want to be and art director, you need to to art history with a minor in business or art criticism or some colleges have arts management majors which teach you specifically about art and how to market it/represent an artist. it merges art/art history/marketing/and business.
If you are more interested in web design, journalism, marketing, or just the business/tech side of the job then you can do visual communications. BUT it has LITTLE to do with art
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