people have been learning from the pros at SVC since 1971.
cherry and DICK brown had a great idea 55 years ago.
Cherry and Dick were two highly successful commercial illustrators teaching at a Seattle-based college where they were surrounded by lifelong academics. That’s when they heard that the School of Visual Arts in New York was experimenting with having only working professionals do the teaching. They built on that idea, paid homage to SVA with the name “School of Visual Concepts,” and kicked off a 50-plus-year run of teaching design, writing, and marketing classes in Seattle. What SVC teaches has changed greatly over the years. But how we teach, and who does that teaching are exactly the same.
THE SVC DIFFERENCE:
The experts who teach.
Every instructor at SVC is a working professional with a minimum of 15 years of industry experience. So they bring you up-to-date knowledge, real-world examples, and the connections you can only build from being an expert in the business.
who learns from svc and why.
Here are the kinds of people who will be your classmates at SVC: They’re your colleagues — people who want to pick up a new set of skills to make your team run more smoothly and successfully. In short, they and their teams come to SVC to upgrade their performance and stay on top of a rapidly changing technology and business environment.
they ushered SVC into the DIGITAL age.
When Linda Hunt and Larry Asher took over the leadership of SVC in 1994, the school had a strong presence in teaching design, art direction, and copywriting. In a matter of months, SVC expanded its digital offerings and added courses in user experience, content design, and other pillars of product development. Under Linda and Larry, SVC also began offering corporate team training workshops led, as always, by experienced, senior professionals.
