A Message from the Head of Department

Graphic Design undertakes visual communication studies in many areas, from traditional production methods of paper, paint and printing works to digital production methods such as mobile design design, moving divisions, photo isolations, game designs, web design, social media designs. As a visual communication method, Graphic Design combines visual culture programs that include heritages related to art with rapidly changing technological opportunities and the universal communication power inherent in it. Graphic Design; It is effective and takes on a new task in shaping social life styles with its power to directly convey change in a universal social sense. In addition, graphic design, which is an effective visual communication tool combined with technology and technological innovation, is an important device of sectors in product and use. For this reason, sectors need structural graphic designers.

In this direction, our department, which aims to train original designers who comprehensively combine aesthetic and visual culture practices, has adopted a versatile education program that addresses visual communication lights such as graphics, typography, personal publishing, web/mobile interface design, packaging design, interactive design, as well as traditional applications such as pattern, printmaking, and also design history, law, aesthetics and art efficiency with these theoretical methods.

The sustainability of graphic design education, creative projects are carried out in large and spacious laboratories, studios and classrooms supported by a technological infrastructure suitable for the purpose of education with a rich staff in the applied and theoretical fields of various design disciplines. In addition, they are prepared for business life by establishing close introductions to the sector with their internship experiences, and thus, they grow in the development of their needs and features as designers universally.

The language of instruction in the Graphic Design Department is Turkish. English preparatory education is optional.

Assoc. Prof. Nihat Dursun
Head of Graphic Design Department