the brand studios at CU
Fast Facts
One Year Masters
12-month master's
program (39 credits)
Professional Faculty
Top industry leaders teaching
from a real-world perspective
Boulder-Based
Professional studios located
in downtown Boulder
Slow Facts
The Studios offer an intense, ONE-YEAR Master’s program in experience design and creative advertising. (One of the only programs like it in the country.) We combine a portfolio school’s focus on developing a career-ready portfolio, with a university’s focus on a rigorous graduate-level education. All on a 12-month timeline. And in the beautiful setting of Boulder, CO.
Pros teaching Pros
Our full-time faculty and adjunct instructors have worked at some of the best design shops, tech firms, and ad agencies in the world: Google, Wieden+Kennedy, CP+B, Ricoh, IBM, and local startups. And the students they teach go on to become professionals in some of the best places as well: Google, Apple, BBH, Airbnb, Uber, Spotify, Saatchi & Saatchi, etc.
All About U
(Capital You. U.)
Your perspective. Your career. Your personal brand of creative weirdness.
We’re not here to teach you OUR methods. The creative field is changing too rapidly for that.
Learning "techniques" won't get you a job.
But unlocking your own, personal, creative point of view will.
And once you find "you," we’re here to stretch it.
The Studios will help you unlock and expand the creative perspective you already have.
And help you gain confidence in both your ideas and your creative skills,
so you can bring "you" to the table, more fully, every time.
