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Visual Communication Design MFA

Lee Green's design of the beloved "Flower City/Flour City" logo is the centerpiece of a new documentary celebrating the impact of Rochester's 50-year-old visual mark. Free, public screenings of the film are scheduled into the fall.

Twenty-three students from RIT's graphic design and visual communication design programs were recognized in the 2026 Graphis New Talent Awards, a juried showcase of emerging creatives around the world. A number of the honored projects from RIT designers will also be featured in the awards' companion publication. 

Georg Seifert (from Germany) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (Austria), cited for their innovative work with game-changing font editing software Glyphs, will accept RIT's prestigious Goudy Award in April. The honor has long celebrated outstanding practitioners in type design and related fields.

As a design leader in the tech sector, Jason Blythe has built a career anticipating and enhancing the way in which people use technology to search for information, shop online, and stream sports and entertainment.

Ricky Figueora taking over as the new director of RIT's School of Film and Animation headlines exciting promotions and additions to the College of Art and Design faculty.

More than two dozen students from RIT's visual communication design MFA program had creative work selected for the Graphis New Talent Awards 2025, a juried global exhibition of the best and boldest student work in categories of Advertising, Design, Film/Video, Photography, and Print. In total, the students and recent graduates captured 44 awards.

Students developed Spotlight Creators, a startup meant to filter out ubiquitous, trend-chasing social media content in favor of original artwork. The goal of the site's co-founders is to create a welcoming online community for creatives to share more authentic work.

Chad Cooper '19 MFA (visual communication design) is a senior product designer - design systems for Spotify, where he helps deliver the audio streaming platform’s visual look and feel for more than 600 million users.

Five RIT visual communication design MFA students and recent alumni had design projects — from typographic works to event branding and advertising — recognized in the global Design Masterprize showcase.

Eshaan Sojatia ’24 MFA (visual communication design) captured second place in the Student Packaging category of PRINT Magazine’s annual PRINT Awards for a series of five black-and-white vinyl record covers.

Students leveraged the variety of makerspaces in RIT's brand-new SHED facility to create arts-integrative work responding to a theme of "Play."

RIT’s presence is widespread in the second edition of Mastering Type, hailed as a crucial guide to typography for print and web design. It is due out in 2025.