Faculty of Fine Arts | Department of Graphic Arts

The department of Graphic Arts started its education in 1985. Our aim is to educate creative designers who can solve any problem about visual design and use modern current equipment effectively.This program gives students an opportunity to implement all their projects with its original printmaking workshop , an advanced hardware and software computer lab ,screen printing workshop, offset printing unit,a camera store and darkrooms.Thanks to the developments in communication technology, different countries and different cultures come closer to each other.Those developments have increased the importance of promotion and advertising. Graphics department makes its students use computers and internet effectively in design and production stage with the help of their modern education program ,and their theorethical and practical lessons which help students develop solving conceptual problems. The students go through the processes which involve stages from conceptual design to printed material. Thanks to the close relationship with the market ,Graphics Arts department help students to come face to face with their real design problems and give them an opportunity to make real life projects supported by their departments Students are encouraged and supported to be involved in national and international competitions by their school. As a result of this stimulating environment, many students of the department have won numerous awards in different design fields, such as posters, magazine covers, packaging design, photography and printmaking, both in the country and abroad. Graduates can be researchers in their field; they also can work in many commercial institutions such as advertisement agencies, publication institutions, graphic design studios, digital production companies, design departments of television and broadcasting industry.