9th Floor, 623 S. Wabash Ave.,
312.369.7679

The Art and Design department's computer lab is open to any student taking classes in the department. It offers approximately 70 workstations capable of running either Mac OS 10.6 or Windows 7. There are over 30 professional software applications available for use including the Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Final Cut Pro, Lectra Fashion CAD suite, Solidworks and Rhino.

Students working in the facility have access to high speed internet, file shares hosting class project files, over a dozen network printers and to a professional staff who can assist them with their coursework.

Checkout Equipment

Adobe Classroom in a Book
70 Workstations in the open lab
        Indesign
        Photoshop
        Illustrator
Wacom Drawing Tablets
        40+ ranging in size from 6'x8" to 12"x20"
Pantone Swatch Books
Pantone Swatch Books

10 Canon LiDe 90 USB 2.0 Scanners
Nikon CoolScan 4000ED Film/Negative Scanner
Portable Drafting Tables
Portable light tables

Models and quantity in lab

225 Workstations in 13 computer classrooms
70 Workstations in the open lab
        Six classrooms and the entire open computer lab have machines configured to run either Mac OS X or Windows 7 at the users discretion.
3 Epson Expression 1640 Scanner Oversize (11"x17")
9 Epson Expression 1680 Scanner (8 1/2"x14")

MAC OS - Snow Leopard

Adobe Creative Suite CS5         Photoshop         Illustrator         InDesign         Dreamweaver         Flash         ImageReady         Acrobat Professional Adobe After Effects CS5 BBEdit Painter X Final Cut Studio 7         Final Cut         DVD Studio Pro         Compressor         LIveType

Microsoft Office Suite 2010         Word         Excel         PowerPoint Apple "i"Applications         iMovie         iPhoto         Keynote         iWeb         iDVD NeoOffice NVU Google Earth Google SketchUp 7 pro TypeTool ScanFont TextWrangler VueScan

Window OS 7

Adobe Creative Suite CS5         Photoshop         Illustrator         InDesign         Dreamweaver         Flash         ImageReady         Acrobat Professional Microsoft Office Suite 2010         Word         Excel         PowerPoint

AutoCAD 2010 Viz 3D Solidworks 2010 Rhino 2010 Flamingo Lectra Fashion CAD Suite         Kaledo         Modaris

Printer models in lab and available media types:

3 Canon ImageRunner 3080 color laser printers w/ Fiery RIPs
- additional printers are positioned throughout the facility close to computer classrooms.

Students also have access to the Art and Design department's Digital Output Center for specialty and advanced output.