Graphic Design + New Media Design
This state of the art facility includes 16 Power Macintosh G5 computers with industry standard software from Adobe, Quark and Apple.
The graphic design lab is a private facility reserved for the NSU Fine & Graphic Arts department, and provides design students the tools necessary to create for a wide range of electronic and print mediums.
Art Department Computer Lab
Hardware
16 Power Macintosh G5's with 20" monitors
2 Epson flatbed scanners
1 Minolta film scanner
1 Nikon film scanner
1 Apple LaserWriter printer
1 Epson Stylus Photo 3000 printer
1 HP Color LaserJet 9500
LaCie rewritable CD recorder
Wacom graphics tablets
Canon digital still camera
Canon GL 1 Mini DV Firewire video camera
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Premiere
Adobe After Effects
QuarkXPress
Dreamweaver
MFlash
Apple Final Cut Pro
Corel Painter
Strata Studio Pro
Stock
Several collections of stock photography and imagery are available for use by Advertising Design majors. See your instructor or an attending graduate student for availability.
Guidelines
The Art Computer lab is available to all NSU Fine & Graphic Arts students. Devices such as digital cameras, graphic tablets, media card readers and CD writers must be scheduled and checked out with a instructor or attending graduate student. Product and software manuals are also available for student use, and are recommenced reading for Advertising Design majors.
Lists of current software and corresponding seats are posted in the lab. Students using the lab should log in as "art student". Software for each machine is accessed by choosing the apple menu/ software folder, then selecting the desired application. When finished, students should quit all running applications and log out of their computer. To log out choose special/ logout, or keyboard shortcut command(apple)Q.