BA (Hons) - Visual Communication: Graphic Design
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In Croydon
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Croydon
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The course introduces students to the exciting, vibrant, and dynamic world of contemporary visual culture. ...A highlight of the course is that it is able to work closely and collaborate with respected industry practitioners. In recent years students have enjoyed working with design groups such as The Decorators, BCMH, Europa and Parrott & Miller. These strong links with industry ensure that briefs are industrially relevant, whilst encouraging and facilitating experimentation.
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Subjects
- IT
- Communication Training
- Design
- Industry
- Visual Communication
- Skills and Training
- Printing
Course programme
Course Overview
The course introduces students to the exciting, vibrant, and dynamic world of contemporary visual culture. The aim of the BA (Hons) Design for Visual Communication course is to teach the broad range of multi-disciplinary skills required to work successfully within the modern day visual communication industry. Today’s illustrators and designers require a breath of conceptual, technical, and theoretical skills to communicate their creative outcomes using a variety of appropriate print, screen, static, and/or motion solutions.
The course will encourage you to explore a broad range of creative methods, practices, and processes and apply those skills to self-initiated, client-led, and practitioner-led ‘live’ briefs and projects that reflect the communication needs of modern day industry.
The course places great emphasis on ideas being the starting position of good design as concept-driven ideas have the ability to be translated across a variety of creative disciplines and creative methods, practices, and processes. This strong conceptual foundation encourages you to develop and resolve your creative outcomes and explore how forms of communication interact and converge.
The course allows you to develop strong creative methodology skills that are underpinned by research-based concepts. The creative methods, practices, and processes within the course will vary from established design software and traditional print production to print-on-demand newspapers and 3D printing.
The importance of utilising creative and social media apps for the production and the communication of messages will be incorporated into the design process to enable you to make informed choices about the communication channels that you use.
Throughout the course the discussion of contemporary issues will encourage you to investigate the culture and theory of communication design. These studies also develop research skills and your ability to structure your ideas and arguments.
As you progress through the degree, you will have the opportunity to specialise in specific illustration, motion graphics, or other graphic disciplines. The structure and content of Level 4 allows you to make an informed decision that is supported by creative practice and personal reflection. Work experience opportunities and the close collaborative relationship that the course has with the industry will also enable you to apply your skills and make educated decisions.
Collaborative practices are at the heart of the course, with students sharing an open plan studio space. This encourages a culture of interaction and insight across year groups, an experience that is standard within the creative industries. Additionally, you will be supported by regular contact with tutors, with time also dedicated to independent enquiry and practice. Viewing visual communication within the different contexts is aided further by an overseas trip, industry seminars, and study trips, all of which complement a holistic approach to critically engaging and effective design communication.
The mixture of facilities at Croydon School of Art allows Visual Communication students the opportunity to work in a variety of ways. Mac suites, photography studios and darkrooms, screen printing, and relief printing studios all enable you to realise your work through a range of methods, practices, and processes.
All of the staff who are employed on the Design for Visual Communication programme are practising designers and illustrators. This current industry knowledge allows the programme to evolve continually and to remain creatively relevant.
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3 Years
3 Years
BA (Hons) - Visual Communication: Graphic Design