Information Design

The Information Design Program at The Sage Colleges is an interdisciplinary program that combines the strengths of Communications, Art, Business, and Computer Science to enable and empower students to express themselves - AND to compete in converged-media communication job fields that are developing even faster than Internet-speed.

Information Design is based on the concept of the griot, the storyteller entrusted with the most crucial task of ensuring accurate conveying of one group's most important information to another. ID revisits the griot concept, producing a graduate who exemplifies the skills of the storyteller, and adds to these skills the ability to convey information using interactive, audio, video, and emerging media technologies to supplement more traditional technologies.

Because the ID program emphasizes both the conceptual and the technological, the graduate of this program is able to map his or her experience and skills onto any emerging technology platform. The graduate is able to tell a better story - choosing and using the appropriate tools in the appropriate way, to tell that story. Perhaps the story will involve advertising or marketing related goals, perhaps it will be an interactive art exhibit for a museum, or physical computing, or videography, or game design, or information architecture, or...

The Information Design graduate will be prepared to see beyond the constraints of what is, and look towards how communication should be approached - telling a better story in a new way.