-Create images that identify a product or convey a message
-Develop graphics and visual images for product illustrations, logos, and websites
-Create designs either by hand or using computer software packages
-Select colors, images, text style, and layout
-Present the design to the art director
-Incorporate changes recommended by the clients into the final design
-Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them

- Create branding design to promote and grow entrepreneurs and small businesses in the market place
- Project management (Contracts, client communication, file creation & organization, deliverables)
- Simple accounting records (Income statements, expense reports, budget goals and invoicing)
- Marketing (Email communication, social media outreach, branding guidelines)
- Art Direction (Concept development, color theory, technique execution, refined concepts)

- Communicate project status to analyst team
- Print vendor request and follow-up
- Update equipment inventory logs
- Print and produce spiral bound presentations for investment meetings
- Organize and update production room
- Generate FedEx labels for package shipping

- UPS/USPS shipping and package pickup
- Provide on demand print services to walk-in clients
- Generate service price quotes to phone/walk-in customers
- Provide customer updates on printing/design projects
- Manage the cleaning operation of print shop equipment
- Produce wide format plot/plans, brochures, logos, modifies files to send to printer at lower print cost, full size banners, magnetic signs & vinyl lettering
- Design logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures, flyers

- Provide training and supervise 6 team members
- Coordinate and manage execution of sale sign set-up & removal
- Conduct audits to ensure pricing accuracy
- Consult with core management team for operations and budget input
- Maintain organized signing areas
- Salesman: Mattresses, Furniture, Housewares & Electronic Departments

The design curriculum at HCC focused on the sciences of communication in the visual graphics field abroad. Courses were taught by graphic workforce veterans that brought real world experience to the classrooms. Students with an AAS in Digital Communications: Graphic Design are shining examples of how design is a functional task as well as art.