“I think the Journalism Graphics major is a great opportunity for students at any skill level who love design. Coming to Ball State, I didn’t have much design experience. The classes I took freshman year helped me gain a lot of design experience, which helped me to get a job on the design team at […]

Amy Cavenaile – Design Director, Emerging News Products at The Washington Post Less than a year after graduating from Ball State’s Journalism Graphics program in 2014, Amy Cavenaile landed a position at the Washington Post as an Art Director. Her role manages four teams of designers to create consistent and engaging experiences across the Washington […]

Ball State will be hosting a single-day virtual workshop for middle and high school students and their advisors on April 23, 2021. This year, the annual program will be going completely online, through both LIVE and prerecorded sessions centered around social media engagement and good and ethical journalism practices. The event will host keynote speaker, […]

JOUR323 Magazine designed by Brandi Geister, Class of 2020. “This magazine was designed for Jour 323; we spent the first half of the semester looking at magazines, finding our topics and styles through mood boarding and page mockups. I landed on a magazine designed for first-time homeowners and people who love decorating on a budget, […]

JOUR397 Infographic designed by Brandi Geister, Class of 2020 “I was part of the BSU At The Games immersive learning project during the spring of 2020 semester, but COVID-19 ruined all the projects we were working on, and it got in the way of our plans to travel to the Olympics in Tokyo during the […]

Ryan Smith – Web Design Specialist at The Web Guys Where is he now? Ryan Smith is a 2007 Ball State Journalism Graphics graduate and currently works as a Web Design Specialist at The Web Guys of Carmel, Indiana. Throughout his career, Smith has had the opportunity to work on some innovative design projects, one […]

JOUR 345 Infographic, designed by Elliott DeRose, Class of 2021. Assignment Details: This particular assignment required students to create an infographic with a large illustration as the main piece of the graphic. Students had to illustrate a process and then have at least three other pieces of information within the infographic. “I have grown up […]

JOUR 241 Website designed by Michaela Tangeman, Class of 2020 Assignment Details: For this project, students were required to create a user interface design for a given company. They were asked to establish a visual style and a company logo for the brand, while also designing the layout of the website. Students were told to […]

JOUR345 Infographic designed by Brandi Geister, Class of 2020. “I love all things weather-related, and when we were told we could choose our own topics for an infographic, I immediately knew I wanted to do one on tornados. I used Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop to create this infographic. The thing I struggle most with creating […]

JOUR 241 Infographic designed by Michaela Tangeman. Class of 2020. Assignment Details: Based on provided topics, students were required to design a National Geographic infographic to portray information visually, that could not have been easily explained through words alone. Michaela’s ‘GeoFact’ topic was centered around Pompeii and answered the question “how did we discover Pompeii.” […]