Artemis Design Group

“Employers can require years of experience just to grant an interview. But how do you get that experience when nobody will give you a chance to begin with?” says award-winning Art Director Christine David, Program Chair for the Advertising, Graphic Design and Honor program at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.  Her professional instinct and passion for education energized her to offer students a chance to gain invaluable real-world design experience while they were completing their degree in the Honors Program within the curriculum.

Student’s learn a comprehensive range of skills necessary to work or run an advertising agency and serve the needs of clients including Ronald McDonald House, Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, Truly Nolen, Boys and Girls Club of Broward, Shoes for the Soul, Wildlife Refuge Center, Kids in Distress, and more. Projects have run the gamut from developing and executing advertising and marketing campaigns, annual reports, corporate identity, package design packages, and more.

“Our clients can go to any agency and there are some world-class agencies here in South Florida,” continues David.  “The Honors Program has won numerous advertising awards and has been featured in design publications.  The word’s getting out that our Honor’s Program students produce quality design, on time. Our Honors students are reaping enormous benefits. All of them are graduating with a minimum of six months, sometimes a full year, of real-world experience on their resumés and getting professional detailed printed pieces to put in their portfolios. And, most important, they’re getting good jobs, at places like Crispin Porter Bogusky, Saatchi and Saatchi, McCann Erickson, BBDO, J. Walter Thompson. Plus—and this is especially rewarding for me—I have three students who’ve actually started their own agencies.”