Maryland Institute College of Art

About the GD MFA Program

Selected from an international pool of applicants, students in MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program include experienced designers who are seeking to reinvigorate their work as well as professionals and advanced students from related disciplines, such as digital media, photography, journalism, and the fine arts. GD MFA students pursue advanced studio work in graphic design as well as courses in the history and theory of art, design, and culture. Students work in print, animation, web design, product development, environmental design, and other media. Courses dedicated to the craft of writing help students learn to use writing as a powerful and expressive communication tool. They receive professional development experience through MICA’s Teaching Internship program and through fellowships with the Center for Design Thinking and the Center for Design Practice.

MICA’s GD MFA program takes a down-to-earth, hands-on, practical approach to advanced design study. The program provides designers with an opportunity to rethink the direction of their careers by learning new skills and by working as the active authors/initiators of original creative projects. Our program is not a retreat from the real world. Instead, we provide a strategic location from which to develop intellectual and technological tools for engaging the larger society in which design functions.

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From the Blog

One Igloo, Fully Furnished

The storm of the century (or so they say) hit Baltimore this week. Grad students got plenty of time to focus on their work and experiment with alternative media. Try snow: it’s modular!

(via Elizabeth Herrmann)

History of Loudness

MICA GD MFA student Chris Clark has published an info graphic on “The History of Loudness” on NPR.org. Project was developed in Callie Neylan’s course Visualizing Information (Fall 2009).

History of Loudness, Chris Clark

History of Loudness, Chris Clark

Recent Projects

Greener Groceries at ICFF

MICA presents "Greener Groceries" at ICFF, New York City, May 15-19, 2009.

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