School of Advertising Art

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School of Advertising Art (abbreviated SAA) is a private 2-year graphic design college located in Kettering, Ohio. Founded in 1984 by advertising artist Tim Potter, SAA trains creative artists to become professional graphic designers, illustrators, and web designers.

The School of Advertising Art faculty is made up of professional graphic designers and artists in order to best prepare students for a real world work point of view and lessons. SAA Instructors include CLIO Award winners, Hermes / Gold ADDY winners, American Advertising Federation Silver Medal recipients, and presidents/owners of design companies.

As it is a graphic design college, all students are required to use their own Macintosh laptop computers using the leading provided computer graphics software, such as Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign; Macromedia's Freehand; QuarkXPress; and Apple Computer's Final Cut Pro and iMovie. SAA also instructs students on using animation and 3D rendering software like Cinema 4D and Toon Boom Studio.

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School of Advertising Art website: http://www.saacollege.com