Austin Creative Department

Our mission is to help you discover your creative problem solving potential. Ideas are the currency of your career. Whether you’re an aspiring advertising or design creative, an entrepreneur building a business, or an agent of social change, we’ll help you discover your creative problem solving potential so you can apply those skills to your professional goals. Assignments centered around marketing, design and social problems are at the core of our curriculum, and you’ll learn to challenge the status quo with disruptive solutions. We teach ideas above all else. We were founded in 2011 as a new model of higher education: a learning process that’s as close as you can get to on-the-job training, where courses are taught by senior-level working professionals, not by tenured professors. In lieu of the traditional classroom, courses are held at actual agencies and studios. Real-world assignments from actual clients are a part of the curriculum, and students pitch their creative ideas to the client. Winning concepts can ultimately get produced, and the winning student(s) can get paid an actual professional fee.* With the costs of higher education becoming unattainable for many people, we offer an alternative for those who may not have the time or means to go to a traditional art/design school. Our program consists of specialized course offerings where students can enroll per course without having to commit to an entire year’s worth of tuition. Guest speakers ranging from designers, writers, art directors, digital developers, producers, strategic planners, photographers, filmmakers and others offer students a well-rounded and firsthand insight into all the disciplines within advertising/design. Our student population ranges from current and past four-year college students looking to further refine their portfolios to professionals looking for a career change/enhancement.