Welcome Communication Design Students! Linked here are academic resources, design opportunities, and tips to stay organized and motivated in your journey with the Communication Design program at Parsons.
We are thrilled to have all new and returning Communication Design students joining the program. We are entering an amazing period of growth and change. Across all three Communication Design programs (BFA, MPS and AAS), we comprise close to 500 students and have over 120 faculty members. Given this scale, we have an immense impact on shaping Parsons School of Design and the wider New School community.
Why is so much of design school a waste of time?
Communication Design is the practice of giving form to content. Communication design is an expansive field that is constantly changing based on social, political and technological advancements. As we embark upon each semester, we look forward to continuing to help foster a thriving design community that works towards the innovation of new ideas, the creation of thought-provoking presentations and the development of critical projects that push design forward.
Communication Design at Parsons is a special place. In part because we are located within a progressive university and in New York City, Parsons’ Communication Design programs are the most internationally diverse, technologically inclined, socially minded, future-focused, and interdisciplinary programs of their kind. Our students are not just designers: many are also photographers, artists, illustrators, programmers, social scientists, and writers, and their engagement with students and faculty outside of their chosen field is encouraged and visible in their work. Each year, we publish the work of graduating BFA students at bfacd.parsons.edu. The archive reaches back to 2013, when we began this work.
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The number of programs we have: BFA Communication Design, AAS Communication Design (a three-semester associates’ degree), and MPS Communication Design (a one-year professionally-focused Masters’ degree).
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Shaping and teaching within these programs are thirteen full-time faculty, all of who are active professionals who are highly accomplished in their field.
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Working with us are over one hundred part-time faculty who work in a variety of contexts, both within companies and independently (often at the same time). Most teach one class a week, and some also teach at neighboring schools like Pratt, Rutgers, and SVA.
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This year we have about 400 BFA Communication Design majors, 20 MPS Communication Design students, and about 20 AAS Communication Design students. The incoming class has about 133 students.