So, soon-to-be-grad — here’s the situation. You’re about to be thrown into the real world. A plethora of possibilities are opening up, but a grim reality comes with them. The economy sucks, your student loans are coming due in six short months, and you’re an artist who’s graduating from a school that doesn’t exactly emphasize careers and salaries. You’d like to travel, but where’s that money going to come from?

SAIC is on top of its game in the world of art schools, but when compared to traditional colleges and universities, there is one standard aspect of college living in which the School doesn’t strive to impress — fitness

Art marries fashion in SAIC’s Department of Fashion Design, and the school’s annual fashion show illustrates that — not only in terms of the show’s locale, but also in the hoards of fashion and art aficionados who pay up to $500 to see the avant-garde work of up-and-coming fashion designers.

These twelve badasses revolutionized graphic design. Protecting the public from mundane magazine spreads, boring book covers, and no-fun front pages, these artists brought innovation to graphic design in the fields of photomontage, logo design, illustration, and typography.