BA (Hons) Graphic Design (With Foundation Year)

This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in Graphic Design, but don’t meet the standard entry requirements. First, we prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree. As a future talent of the graphic design industry, we’ll prepare you for the exciting new challenges this field offers. You’ll need the ability to work both individually and as part of a team, making large-scale projects happen and bringing big ideas to life. To land the job you want in graphic design you’ll need to be a strong visual communicator in the delivery of future products, services, and ideas. So we want to provide you with all the tools to experiment but also to explore and invent, as you examine where 21st-century design is heading.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Found – all core

Year 1

• all core

Year 2

• all core

Year 3

• all core

Employability

Our course helps develop graduates who are creative, innovative, and going places. Recently, two of our class of 2013, Charlotte Maeva-Perret and Francesco Tacchini, went on to study further at the Royal College of Art, where they’re considered to be among the country’s leading young talents. While some go on to postgraduate studies, others quickly start to make their names in leading design and advertising agencies, typographic design studios, corporate graphics companies, and moving image production houses. One 2012 graduate, Joe Please, has already had one of his co-creations selected for permanent exhibition in the design section of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Called OTOTO, it’s a musical invention kit that allows you to make anything from a drum kit of saucepans to origami that sings when you touch them! Joe, who’s also managed exhibitions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, never looked back after going on one of our exchange visits with students in Minnesota. Such placements, exchange trips, and ‘live’ projects with professional designers are all geared to provide you with the experience that will prepare you for a career in graphic design. Initially, that could be, for instance, as an assistant or freelance designer, an assistant art editor, magazine designer, or advertising creative.