Arts, Entertainment & Design

The Arts, Entertainment & Design career pathway combines creative roles across visual and performing arts, film, journalism, fashion, interior design, and creative technologies. This pathway focuses on creating, producing, and sharing artistic and design work across multiple platforms — with the goal of entertaining, informing, beautifying, and inspiring audiences everywhere. From graphic design and photography to media production, animation, and entertainment law, this is a broad and dynamic field with growing demand for creative professionals across every industry.

TSU students commonly entering this pathway include those studying:

  • Mass Communication & Journalism
  • Fine Arts & Graphic Design
  • Film & Media Production
  • Communications
  • Fashion Merchandising & Design
  • Interior Architecture & Design
  • Music
  • Theatre & Performing Arts

Whether you’re a creative with a clear vision or still figuring out where your talents fit, this community has the tools and inspiration to help you take your next step. Explore curated industry articles and career videos featuring professionals in entertainment, design, journalism, and beyond. Use the Labor Market Insights tool to discover salary data and in-demand skills, and browse LinkedIn Learning courses on graphic design, photography, animation, audio recording, and more — all free with your TSU login. Take advantage of Adobe Creative Cloud, available at no cost with your TSU email, to build your portfolio and sharpen your craft. When you’re ready to gain real-world experience, explore virtual job simulations through Forage and paid micro-internships through Parker Dewey. Start exploring below and bring your creative career to life!

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Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue or skills you may have that are relevant to a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Online Tools

LinkedIn Learning

Creative Inspirations: Rick Smolan, Photographer

Taught by Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan is responsible for some of the largest photographic projects ever undertaken. A former Time, Life, and National Geographic…

Learning Revit 2027

Taught by Paul F. Aubin
BIM (building information modeling) is a baseline skill for architecture, engineering, and construction roles.This course provides a clear, practical starting…

Creative Inspirations: Stefan G. Bucher, Designer, Illustrator, and Writer

Taught by Stefan G. Bucher
Meet a truly monster graphic designer, Stefan G. Bucher. Stefan’s projects range from his Daily Monsters, to the Daily Letter…

Creative Inspirations: Doyald Young, Logotype Designer

Taught by Doyald Young
From humble beginnings in a small Texas town eight decades ago comes legendary typographer, logotype designer, author, and teacher Doyald…

Creative Inspirations: Natalie Fobes, Photographer

Taught by Natalie Fobes
This installment in the lynda.com Creative Inspirations documentary series introduces the diverse talents of one of the world’s great award-winning…

Creative Inspirations: Bert Monroy, Digital Painter and Illustrator

Taught by Bert Monroy
Renowned artist Bert Monroy is known for his hyperrealistic style of extremely large format Photoshop illustrations. As an early adopter…

Creative Inspirations: Kit Hinrichs, Graphic Designer

Taught by Kit Hinrichs
Kit Hinrichs is one of the most accomplished and respected graphic designers and illustrators of the last fifty years. A…

Creative Inspirations: Mexopolis, Animation Studio

Taught by Sandra Equihua
Mexopolis is the husband and wife team whose animated television series El Tigre has defied all the rules and won…

Creative Inspirations: New Deal Studios, Visual Effects

Taught by New Deal Studios
New Deal Studios is where the line between illusion and reality disappears. Come along for a peek behind the magician’s…

Creative Inspirations: Ze Frank, Comedic Digital Savant

Taught by Ze Frank
Ze Frank is one of the most creative and enigmatic people working in digital media. He’s also just plain funny.…

Creative Inspirations: Renegade Animation, Animation Studio

Taught by Renegade Animation
Renegade Animation has pioneered digital 2D paperless animation with a unique all-Flash workflow—and a bunch of really great cartoons! This…

Creative Inspirations: tokidoki, Character Illustrator

Taught by tokidoki
The Japanese-inspired lifestyle brand tokidoki, created by Italian artist and designer Simone Legno, started as a set of characters on…

CSS Positioning Best Practices

Taught by Bill Weinman
Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with…

Creative Inspirations: Dale Herigstad & Schematic, Interactive Design Agency

Taught by Dale Herigstad
Welcome to the future of media experience. Meet Dale Herigstad, Chief Creative Officer at Schematic—the company behind some of the…

Troika’s ABC Brand Campaign: Start to Finish

Taught by Troika Design Group
Get an inside view behind the making of ABC TV’s fall promotional and brand image campaign, and watch a 60-second…

Creative Inspirations: Troika Design Group, Design and Branding Agency

Taught by Troika Design Group
Ever wonder who’s behind those cool identity graphics on broadcast and cable TV networks? Come take a peek behind the…

Creative Inspirations: Ron Crabb, Digital Illustrator

Taught by Ron Crabb
Ron Crabb’s art is almost undetectable, yet it has been seen by millions. He is a matte painter for major…

Margo Chase’s Hand-Lettered Poster: Start to Finish

Taught by Margo Chase
Acclaimed graphic designer Margo Chase shows how she created a beautifully hand-lettered poster for a special appearance at the Santa…

Creative Inspirations: Rick Morris, Motion Graphics Designer

Taught by Rick Morris
This installment of the Creative Inspirations series takes viewers into the life and home studio of one of the entertainment…

Creative Inspirations: Big Spaceship, Digital Creative Agency

Taught by Big Spaceship
Take a ride in the Big Spaceship with this intimate look at the inner workings of one of the web’s…

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