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Opportunities

Careers in the Field

An amazing variety of careers are available to students with the talent and tenacity to achieve their goals. For example, IPFW alumni can be found throughout the region, employed as photographers, animators, Web designers, graphic designers, package and display designers, and art directors. IPFW graduates are employed at LaBov & Beyond, Shapes Advertising, ICON Exhibits, and Sweetwater Sound among others. Other careers in art include industrial design, marketing, public relations, television and print media, and promotion and sales divisions of the entertainment business.

Computer Art and Design:

  • web design
  • interactive design
  • 3-D modeling
  • television advertising
  • CD ROM authoring
  • virtual reality
  • digital game design
  • animation/video editing
  • architectural rendering
  • gaming

Graphic Design:

  • graphic design signage/wayfinding
  • print advertising
  • product design
  • environmental design
  • package design
  • illustration
  • storyboard artist
  • art direction

Photography:

  • portraiture
  • photographic retouching
  • photo journalism
  • commercial photography
  • fine art photography
  • advertising photography

High school students can prepare for rewarding careers in art by participating in high school art classes, supplemented by community-based art instruction, such as the IPFW Community Arts Academy. Visiting art galleries and museums, reading about art, and talking with professional artists are also beneficial. Students should maintain a good grade point average in all of their studies.

Major-related Career Information :

http://www.ipfw.edu/career/students/exploring/majors/art/art.shtml

 

IPFW is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University.