Create Your Future in Visual Communication
Imagine your dream design career. Art Director. Graphic Designer. Visual Designer. UX Designer. Visual Communication students work toward these careers, with a high-value, professional-class education from ACC. Keep reading to discover what you can achieve with us.
Our Programs
What Is Visual Communication?
Visual communication can be hard to define, and we as a field of creatives don’t like to be boxed in! Whatever medium we work in — website, poster, infographic, app, ad, or so much more — visual communicators use modern and traditional tools and creativity to convey a message to a target audience. And visual communicators are in demand; for example, digital design is a career with faster-than-average growth (13%) predicted over the next decade.
An Education For Everyone
We know that no two Visual Communication students are alike. Whether online or in-person, classes are made up of students working at different paces toward different goals.
Your classmates’ diversity in background, age, perspective, and experience — combined with your unique identity — creates an engaging and supportive environment where you can experiment and grow toward your career.
Why ACC Visual Communication Is Right for You
Experienced Instructors
What will you receive from your instructors? Guidance and encouragement. The Visual Communications staff have built expertise as professionals in the design industry, working for organizations from mission-driven nonprofits to multinational corporations.
With their insight and your unique vision, you’ll graduate prepared for the first day in your field.
Fantastic Value
ACC offers an affordable educational pathway to your career. With practical, hands-on learning in courses that meet your schedule, easy-to-understand payment plans, and financial aid and counseling opportunities, your education today doesn’t have to create a financial burden tomorrow.
Student Work
From day one, you’ll be challenged with assignments that require your imagination, technical skill, and the willingness to take some risk, all factors supported by your instructors and classmates. You’ll be amazed by the portfolios you and your classmates build in projects that reflect realistic industry expectations. Take a look at our programs to see more.
“The professors are all compassionate and care about us furthering ourselves not only as individuals, but as designers in a creative and fast-paced field.”
—Natalie Luz Elorza-Welling, Graphic Design Alum
Recent Viscom News
- Fall 2022 Portfolio Show Re-CapOn a foggy night in December, graduating Viscom students gathered for the first in-person Portfolio Show since the pandemic. Students had the opportunity to network with design professionals and meet their peers face to face, many of them for the first time. Students excitedly greeted friends as they table-hopped and […]
- Graphic Design Student a YETI Featured ArtistZaine Vaun is a recent graduate from the Graphic Design program at ACC. This past semester she was selected by YETI to be a featured artist for their “Artist Series”of customizable drinkware. YETI customers can choose from five of Zaine’s unique nature-inspired designs to customize mugs, tumblers, and water bottles. […]
- Austin Studio Tour Design-a-Thon 2022The ACC Highland campus is both beautiful and functional, with state of the art facilities and plenty of gorgeous gathering spaces for students to study, hang out, and relax between classes. With so many new opportunities packed into over 200,000 square feet of the former Highland Mall, it’s no surprise […]