Graphic Design

BA Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts gives you a range of skills and knowledge to produce effective design for both social engagement and the future of the design industry.

The course will give you the opportunity to join a community of designers, educators and students who are interested in exploring what it means to be a contemporary graphic designer.

Our aim is to empower you to be a proactive practitioner with the ability to understand and contribute to sustainable futures. Through the practising of graphic design across a series of projects, you will explore multiple existing techniques and processes that encourage new working methods to emerge.

Graphic design as a discipline benefits from the histories, debates and developments which continue to inform it. However, as designers, we actively challenge and explore the porous and shifting boundaries of contemporary graphic design practice to find new ways to address the urgent issues and contexts of our time.

What to expect
• A wide range of projects: Practical, theoretical, conceptual, interdisciplinary and professional.
• Graphic design skills: Typography, type design, print, publishing, digital languages, image, narrative, information, systems and presentation.
• Contextual engagement: Explore discourse that frames social, political and design.
• Developing professional practice: Identify appropriate methodologies and ways of working to respond to specific contexts and connect with diverse audience.
• Climate, racial and social justice responsibility: Understand and put climate, racial and social justice at the heart of your work and contribute to socially responsible creative challenges.
• Public events: Take part in producing, promoting and delivering public events as a way of showing work to/for audiences.
• Multidisciplinary staff: Our course tutors and technicians come from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, including art, design, writing, publishing and moving image.
• Graphic design studios: Including a student-led maker space with equipment for prototyping, print making, Riso printing, 3D printing, bookbinding and publishing.
• Access to Camberwell's shared technical workshops: Letterpress, printmaking, photography, ceramics, 3D and metalwork.

Industry experience and opportunities
You’ll be taught by design practitioners and academics, complemented by a wide range of industry professionals who visit the course to lecture and teach. This gives you the opportunity to build your own network of creative practitioners. You’ll have opportunities to work on live briefs during your studies and find placements through our professional and alumni network. We collaborate with London-based museums, design companies and community groups to test ideas, and to support social and cultural projects.

Additionally, you can undertake the Diploma in Professional Studies, the Diploma in Creative Computing or Diploma in Apple Development between Years 2 and 3 to enhance your learning experience and employability skills.

About Camberwell College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts is a renowned art and design college. Our courses will make you think about your social responsibility, as well as develop your critical and making skills.

We give students the space to explore their creativity. Staff will support and challenge you to rethink current practices. Our facilities embrace both traditional craftsmanship and digital technology.

Our south east London location is also home to a thriving arts scene. The area hosts a variety of galleries, project spaces and studios that our students, staff and graduates work and exhibit in. These include on-site gallery Camberwell Space, Work Form, Garudio Studiage and DKUK.

Our international partnerships, projects and exchanges provide opportunities for our students and staff to broaden perspectives and knowledge. They also explore how art and design can support communities in a global context.