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Illustration
Offered in:
ATLANTA
eLEARNING
SAVANNAH

Careers

For a variety of outlets—from book publishing to advertising and from product packaging to the Internet—illustrators use their skills to capture viewers' interest, translating concepts into tangible images.

Commercial illustrator
Storyboard artist
Publication illustrator
Quick sketch artist
Freelance illustrator
Costume illustrator

Set designer
Book cover illustrator
Advertising illustrator
Greeting card illustrator
Children's book illustrator
Graphic novel artist

Cartoonist
Character designer for animation
Mural artist
Costume illustrator
Computer game illustrator
Digital illustrator

SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.

Some employers of SCAD illustration alumni

American Greetings
CNN
Consolidated Designs Inc.
Corporate Report
Custom PrintWear Inc.
Devon Direct Marketing
Dimension Films
Disney Interactive Studios
Heart-Head Publishing
Jesterhead Creations

May Merchandising Co.
Mother Nature Network
MSP Communications
Simon & Schuster
TSI Sports Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
University of South Carolina
VSI Communications Group
West End Games
WET Design

Contact Illustration

illustration@scad.edu
admission@scad.edu
Hong Kong/Savannah/eLearning: 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100
Atlanta: 877.722.3285 or 404.253.2700

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Events

SCAD eLearning Chat (Noon-3 p.m. EST)
Dec. 11, 2009
Winter Quarter Begins
Jan. 04, 2010

News

Sep. 16, 2009
SCAD announces art history guest lectures
Sep. 15, 2009
Showtime House features SCAD products
Mar. 30, 2009
SCAD makes a splash at South by Southwest
Feb. 16, 2009
SCADDY Awards honor excellence in advertising

Recognition

Just 4 Fun hires Charla Pettingill
Charla Pettingill (M.A., illustration, 2009) was hired as a full-time illustrator/creative designer at Just 4 Fun Corporation in Atlanta.
Tamara Garvey earns Telfair Art Fair honor
Tamara Garvey (B.F.A., illustration, 2008) was awarded honorable mention at the annual Telfair Art Fair in Savannah in November.
SCAD students intern with Gajin Studios
Undergraduate sequential art students Erin Gladstone, Julie Godwin and Remington Veteto, graduate illustration student Alan Hawley and alumna Joy Taney (B.F.A., sequential art, 2009) are interning at Gajin Studios in Atlanta.
Kopeloff intern at Dutton’s Children’s Books
Katrina Kopeloff (B.F.A., illustration, 2009) landed an internship with Dutton’s Children’s Books, a division of Penguin, New York City.

Illustration Offered in:ATLANTAeLEARNINGSAVANNAH