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Graphic Design BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
Online
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
3 Years
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
Graphic design is seen, felt and experienced everywhere. Once focused on objects, graphic design is now increasingly concerned with contexts. Graphic designers inform, confront, persuade, entertain, provoke, challenge, question, direct and engage with the political, social and environmental issues of the world we live in.
The aim of the graphic design programme is to create passionate, creative, resourceful, entrepreneurial and adaptive problem-finders, who are prepared both technically and intellectually to embrace and exploit the opportunities that graphic design offers in the 21st Century.
Being a graphic designer is fun, stimulating and inspiring. Designers are creative problem-finders and solvers. You will be challenged to think differently, even professional designers are constantly developing their skills. There are always new trends, new technologies, new ideas, and new sources of inspiration – a creative mind never stops learning. It is more than just a job – it's a way of life.
The course is studio based, practical, hands-on and creative. It offers you many different ways to make graphic design work as you explore the different contexts and formats in which graphic design is experienced. It allows you to decide what kind of designer you want to be. It will test and challenge you to expand your understanding and knowledge of what graphic design is, what it can do and what it is for.
You will be introduced to typography and layout, drawing as observation and problem solving, identity and branding, packaging and point of purchase, exhibition design, publication and printing, and digital moving image. The course has a great resource base for you to use.
About this course
As a graduate you could work in a design studio, freelance, art direction, editorial design, typography, branding, advertising, corporate identity, interactive media, signage, design consultancy or online design.
You have the opportunity to further enhance your skills by considering our MDes (Masters of Design) in Graphic Design or our MA in Visual Communication.
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Subjects
- Design
- Drawing
- Graphic
- Explored
- Experienced
- Communication
- Communication design
- Communication Journalism
- Culture
- Communication Skills
- Strengths
Course programme
You will study modules such as:
Stage one
The focus of the first year is on understanding the fundamentals of your subject, developing key skills and introducing you to the world of graphic design, understanding how it is studied, explored and experienced.
- Discovering Graphic Design
- Exploring Visual Communication
- Graphic Design: Process
- Graphic Design: Culture and Curiosity
The second year is about reviewing and analysing your responses to the subject and starting to identify your strengths and interests. You will be encouraged to experiment with, and test your graphic design solutions in real world environments.
- Graphic Design: Making and Meaning
- Graphic Design: Value
- Graphic Design: Ambition
- Graphic Design: Connections
The third year is a synthesis (a drawing together) of everything you have learned on the course. It allows you to position yourself as a critical, engaged and dynamic graphic designer, ready for the challenges and opportunities that you will encounter in a fast-changing and unpredictable world.
- Graphic Design: Individual Investigation
- The Live Graphic Design Studio
- The Independent Design Agenda
- The Distinctive Voice
Additional information
£9,250 per year* (2020/21)
International fee
£14,045 per year (2020/21)
Graphic Design BA (Hons)