You explore the mind’s eye. Your visual creations support, interpret and explain a variety of ideas, content and processes. Print and digital media benefit from your artistry. Our illustration program prepares you for careers as artists, authors, designers, illustrators, motionographers and storytellers.
The field of illustration holds a more traditional history and perspective within the program. However, more modern techniques are covered as well. The role of illustrator is based in the fine arts but responds directly to the audience and the client. Similar to graphic design, the illustrator is responsible for defining the audience and communicating through imagery, which is appropriate and understood by the audience. The program covers a variety of types of illustration including editorial, educational and technical, as well as character development and other forms of illustration.
LEARN MOREWinthrop University’s Visual Communication Design (VCOM) Program delivers a comprehensive four-year bachelor’s degree in experience design, illustration, and graphic design. We train students in the areas of research, analysis, and design for their end products to meet human needs and intended contexts for print, screen, or built environments. We empower students to become directors of visual communication, to think conceptually, and to have an emphasis on systematic and strategic approaches to design.
Award-winning creatives in their own right, our faculty show students where to start and how to develop a concept from first idea to a final, finished illustration. They are professionals with years of experience working in the industry and educating aspiring illustrators. Students gain professional experience throughout their studies with the guidance of our accomplished and recognized faculty.
John Hairston Jr.
Illustration Coordinator, Assistant Professor of Design
Office: 331 McLaurin Hall
Phone: 803/323-2660
E-mail: hairstonj@winthrop.edu
Jason Tselentis
VCOM Coordinator & Chair, Department of Design
Office: 240 McLaurin
Phone: 803/323-4565
E-mail: tselentisj@winthrop.edu
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