BA (Hons) Graphic Design Communication

Course detail Content: what students can expect

• The opportunity to explore: analogue and digital typography, design strategy, editorial design, digital and interactive design, fashion and music industry promotion, moving image and print media
• To work on multiple creative briefs, learning how to manage a diverse workload with a variety of goals
• To learn the key skills of their profession, supported by lead practitioners in their fields
• To develop a sound understanding of the links between technology and the user, between creativity and the professional sector as well as between theory and practice
• To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops including laser cutting, photography, metalwork, woodwork and audio visual editing suite. View the Chelsea facilities section

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StructureYear 1

• Unit 1:Introduction to Graphic Design Communication
• Unit 2: Analogue and digital visualisation
• Unit 3: Concept and narrative
• Unit 4: Creativity and context

• Unit 5: Expanded practice
• Unit 6: Exploring the professional brief
• Unit 7: Developing a personal language
• Unit 8: Culture and context

• Unit 9: Professional and personal practice
• Unit 10: Dissertation and project blog

The college's strong links with the creative industries mean our BA Graphic Design Communication students gain vital commercial experience through a number of exclusive, bespoke commissions, award schemes and live projects they work on; many of which lead to job offers on graduating.

Monday 24 September - Friday 7 December 2018

Monday 7 January - Friday 15 March 2019

Monday 15 April - Friday 21 June 2019

Learning and teaching methods

• Academic, production, presentation skills and technical workshops
• Analogue and digital demonstrations
• Exhibition, studio and other visits and trips
• Focused research
• Group and individual crits, tutorials and feedback
• Group work
• Lectures and seminars
• Live projects
• Online learning
• Portfolio surgeries
• Presentations to clients and peers
• Project briefings
• Research methods and analysis exercises
• Self-directed learning
• Simulated work-based learning
• Studio group teaching
• Team projects
• Technical orientations, demonstrations and inductions to workshops

Assessment methods

• Essays, reports and final dissertation
• Peer assessment, seminars and project blogs
• Presentations
• Self-initiated project and individual portfolio submissions
• Student self-evaluations
• Tutorials and mid-year reviews

Facilities

• 3D Workshops

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• Photography Studios

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• Digital Studio

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Staff

• David Barnett - Course Leader
• Nigel Bents
• Peter Chadwick - This Brutal House
• Kieron Dennis
• Sakis Kyratzis

• Paula Nessick
• Danilo Piga
• Anna Rhodes - Reference Bank
• Eva Sajovic

Associate Lecturers

• Graham Bignell
• Ben Brannigan
• Helen Chesner
• Matthew Dixon
• Isabel Gibson
• Kasia Jezowska

• Jessica Marlowe
• Bhav Mistry
• Safwaan Motara
• Paul Oakley
• Ray O’Meara
• Myles Palmer