设计师通过视觉手段说服，传达信息并带来愉悦。当今的设计师还为老练的客户提供指导，并开发设计策略和战术方法，以满足企业，社会和文化领域的各种需求和挑战。通过以印刷术为中心的视觉传达设计方面的培训和经验相结合，该计划可以培养学生塑造和解决问题的能力，同时在与行业相关的媒体，材料和环境中扩展技术和视觉技能。由于越来越多地要求设计师在不同的文化，市场和行业中进行交流和协作，因此还鼓励学生通过在写作，商务，商务等领域的学习来增强他们的智力，创造力和概念性问题解决能力。例如，艺术和艺术史，经济学，哲学，市场营销，建筑
Designers persuade, inform and delight through visual means. Today's designers also offer guidance to sophisticated clients and develop design strategies and tactical approaches to meet a spectrum of needs and challenges across business, social, and cultural territories. Through a mixture of training and experience in visual communication design centered on typography, the program develops students' abilities to shape and solve problems, while expanding technical and visual skill sets across industry-relevant media, materials, and environments.<br><br>Because designers are increasingly called-upon to communicate and collaborate across a diverse range of cultures, markets, and industries, students are also encouraged to enhance their intellectual, creative, and conceptual problem-solving capabilities through study in areas such as writing, business, art and art history, economics, philosophy, marketing, architecture, ethics, history, and sociology, for example.<br><br>The K-State MFA program with emphasis in Graphic Design, consists of three intensive and exploratory years of thinking and making. It is structured to support passionate, driven candidates wishing to embark on advanced investigations in design-related areas. Program graduates are well-prepared to pursue positions of leadership as design thinkers, makers and problem-solvers.<br><br>Over the course of the program, graduate students develop a personalized and unique direction in their work that culminates in a third-year capstone design project and exhibition. MFA candidates pursue areas of interest through in-depth independent study with departmental faculty and a cross-disciplinary graduate committee, selected by each student in consultation with their major professor. Design MFA students are allocated secure studio space in Willard Hall, as well as access to the rest of the Art Department facilities.