Surface Design Track

Hone your skills in textile design and graphic illustrated imagery as applied to a range of products — from soft goods, to interior design, to the fashion and gift markets.

Methods and materials center on our responsibility to design for sustainability, including using naturally derived, chemical-free colors, and other eco-friendly choices becoming predominant in the interior and fashion textile industries.

Career Opportunities

• Designer in a textile studio, interior design firm or print/consumer product department
• Freelance designer
• Entrepreneur

Key Courses that Best Represent This Track

• Intro to Textile design
• Craft techniques
• The Art of Fashion

What You'll Learn

Create workable repeats, engineered prints and digital production tools specific to industry standard; develop digital and analog creative designs for fabrics and non-fabric materials, including dinnerware, giftware, stationery, wallpaper and soft goods.

Notable Alumni

Our graduates fashion the products and experiences you use everyday, from what you wear to what you read.

• Grace Lee, designer/animator, Midnight Sherpa
• Alexander Vidal, illustrator/writer/designer; clients include Adidas, Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Magazine
• Patrick Hruby, Art Director, Los Angeles Times