In September of this year, Communication Design students in a Logos and Corporate Identity Class started work on an important logo project for Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS). The class was guided through the creative process by Communication Design instructor Dan Elliott and teaching assistant Cari Hogan (a Harrington alumna) while also being coached [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Communication Design’
Harrington College teams with RAILS to produce Graphic Design Identity Project
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Communication Design, graphic design college, Harrington College of Design, non-profit graphic design, RAILS on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Responsibilities of a Creative Director (Part II)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Communication Design, creative director, graphic design, graphic design college, graphic design degree, graphic design training, Harrington College, Harrington College of Design, what is a creative director on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This feature is continued from yesterday… The Creative Director position is a management function. In all types of businesses, better success has been realized when the management staff’s responsibilities are complemented by leadership qualities. Therefore, a good Creative Director will: Delegate but also produce. These managers must lead by example not only to establish themselves [...]
Responsibilities of a Creative Director (Part I)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Communication Design, creative director, graphic design, graphic design college, graphic design degree, graphic design training, Harrington College, Harrington College of Design, what is a creative director on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Creative Directors, also called Art Directors, are found in many industries: advertising, Web design, fashion, media and entertainment. The main responsibility of a Creative Director is to understand a client’s advertising strategy and come up with the creative solutions for the client’s advertising campaign. As far as the type of people who end up in [...]
Keeping it Fresh Among the Harrington Library Stacks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baseline magazine, Communication Design, Graphic Design classes, Graphic magazine, Harrington College of Design, Harrington Library, interior design training, photography college on August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Harrington Library is continually adding new photography college resources, interior design training references and great info for your graphic design classes! You’d expect a great design college to have a great library. Harrington’s is top notch, with almost 100 design magazines to browse each month, and enough new books to make any designer’s coffee [...]
The Neche Collection (Part II)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chicago printmaking, Communication Design, contemporary printmaking, graphic design, Harrington College of Design, Neche Collection, Neche Eugenio Hadad, Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, winterbureau on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I shared a glimpse into the touching Neche Collection created by Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, a Communication Design instructor at the Harrington College of Design, which captures objects from her grandfather’s life, documents and archives them, then transforms them into a contemporary print. An example can be seen below… Where these: Turn into this: Pull Push [...]

