Programme Type:

Course Overview

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. Typically our students work on Apple Macs in computer labs, and in the Digital Print Hub, you will be able to access (under guidance) high-quality printing on many different types of materials, laser-cutting, book-binding, and other printing options, including screenprint and Letterpress print in our Printing Studios.

Discovering Graphic Design

This fact-finding and practical module asks students to explore the creative industries in relation to their subject discipline and introduces them to the external world of graphic design. Students will be asked to explore the field of graphic design via the University Learning Hub; to explore design journals; local exhibitions and external organisations, in order to discover the range of applications and potential pathways available in their subject.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

Requirement What we're looking for
UCAS points 112
Specific requirements at A-level

No specific subject requirements

Specific requirements at GCSE At least five GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English at grade 4/C or above
IELTS 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)
Interview / Audition

N/A

Alternative entry qualifications:

  • BTEC - DMM
  • Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15 Merit: 24 Pass: 6

Offers will be made initially based on your application, including predicted grades and/or grades you have already achieved. Following this, if you submit a strong portfolio we will make you an unconditional offer, to reflect the quality of your work and your potential.

English Language Requirements:

IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

Fees

  Full-time Part-time
UK

£9250 per year

N/A

International/EU

£14045 per year

N/A


This information was accurate on : 22/04/2021
Please contact us for more information about this courses

Similar Courses