Facilities
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Graduate students have 24-hour access to design studios on the 4th floor of the 808 Building, including private studios spaces and larger communal work spaces.
Facilities also feature cutting-edge equipment to realize design projects, including large-format printers, a Risograph printer, vinyl cutters, and bookbinding equipment. Students have access to BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), an impressive 15,000-square-foot, multi-million dollar engineering, and manufacturing facility located right near the College of Fine Arts buildings.
Graduate Graphic Design Shared Workspace Graduate Graphic Design Seminar Room Digital Printing Room Digital Photography Lab Woodshop Visual Arts Resource Library Printmaking Studio
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FACULTY FEATURE
Designer and educator with over two decades of experience, James Grady, assistant professor of graphic design at BU School of Visual Arts and creative director at BU Spark!, came to BU with an interdisciplinary career leading design projects for clients such as Google, Nike, and Samsung.
In CFA’s Faculty Feature series, Grady talks with CFA about what it means to him to teach graphic design at BU, what makes a graphic design certificate applicant stand out, and the teaching philosophy of providing students with a historical context of where graphic design has been, where it is, and where it’s headed.
Many of our Certificate applicants majored in another field in their undergraduate program but they had always wanted to do graphic design. Most of them have some experience in the working world in business, marketing, or even biology. They’re looking for a career shift and want to immerse themselves in graphic design. We introduce them to the culture of graphic design. We talk about what studios look like and how they operate. We give them real-world projects. We do that in the context of a fine arts college which encourages them to be more divergent in how they think about graphic design as an independent field.
James Grady, Assistant Professor
Program Faculty
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Kristen Coogan
Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Chair, Graduate Graphic Design
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James Grady
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design; BU Spark! Creative Director; Principal, Design Axl
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Nicholas Rock
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Director of Graduate Studies
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Christopher Sleboda
Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design; Chair, BFA Graphic Design
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Mary Yang
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design
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