Fashion Art Direction (MA)

Leverage AI to craft powerful stories across digital, brand, and broadcast news platforms. Gain skills in audio and video editing to create compelling content and build essential techniques to engage diverse audiences and drive impactful narratives in today’s media landscape.

Learn the art of self-publication. You will conceptualize, design, produce, and publish a digital and print magazine. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 488.)

Styling is visual storytelling. You will develop concept drawings from cultural references and assemble compelling outfits to create fashion imagery. You will put the foundations of personal, product, and editorial styling into practice.

You will learn to work fluidly between graphic design software programs and create concept boards, branding, merchandising and production documents, and marketing collateral to communicate information effectively.

Those who create fashion images have considerable control over the creative vision of a project. You will learn and use production logistics and protocols to concept, organize, and style a fashion photo shoot and video. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 284.)

Part art installation and part commerce, fashion still life augments the fashion product using color, composition, handcrafted props, and backgrounds. You'll combine setups and imagery with innovative typefaces and layouts to create fashion still life installations for e-commerce, Instagram, and store display.

Master visual merchandising concepts for fashion branding. You will conceptualize and execute visual merchandising designs and displays for a variety of retail marketing channels.

Explore and prepare for your career in fashion. You will develop professional personal branding, job search materials, digital and physical portfolios, and prepare for job interviews.

Fashion art directors are the multi-disciplinary creatives behind the content creation of a fashion brand or magazine. You'll conceptualize the visual communication of a targeted project, then art direct, produce, and style a fashion photo shoot or video using custom typography and layouts.

Welcome to the digital revolution in fashion. You will create innovative retail experiences using imagery, installations, and branding and translate your concepts for a multitude of platforms. Plus, gain advanced skills in art direction, styling, visual merchandising, project management, website creation, and branding.

Build a solid technical foundation in digital photography. You'll gain skills by practicing camera controls, capture techniques, improving quality of light, image editing, and composition.