Illustration and Visual Media

BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media aims to produce creative and innovative illustrators who are used to taking risks with their work. It offers you the intellectual and creative space to examine existing definitions of illustration whilst exploring future directions.

We’ll encourage you to explore and interrogate a range of established, current and emerging approaches and techniques to develop practices that are innovative and reflect our times.

Why choose this course at London College of Communication
• Reputation: Join a course with an established reputation, our graduates have gone on to work at Penguin Random House, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Adam&eveDDB, Nike, the Royal Academy, Pentagram and National Trust.
• Inclusive / active studio culture: The course is delivered in a studio to facilitate collaboration, knowledge exchange, personal development and collective support.
• Multidisciplinary: You’ll gain experience across a wide range of different technologies and processes including physical print production, digital and analogue methods of image-making.
• Employability: You will gain experience of working directly with external partners through collaborative and client set briefs, talks and feedback from industry professionals.

What you can expect?
• Multidisciplinary:. We encourage you to develop an awareness of the broader social, cultural, and political contexts practitioners operate in, at the same time as questioning, validating, and redefining illustration and visual media.
• Established and Emerging Media: You’ll approach a diverse range of storytelling and narrative projects with curiosity, intellectual rigor, and practicality so that you develop specific technical and transferable skills.
• Intellectual and Creative Freedom: You’ll respond to briefs independently and collectively in innovative, sustainable, and ethical ways.
• Contemporary Studio Practice: Our studio culture is vibrant, and supportive, emphasising experimentation, investigation, imagination, and invention.
• Specialist Staff: Our team includes successful professionals from diverse fields, each with their own specialist practice or research. Their expertise directly feeds into our stimulating learning environment, so that you receive the most up-to-date instruction

About London College of Communication
London College of Communication is for the curious, the brave and the committed: those who want to transform themselves and the world around them. Through a diverse, world-leading community of teaching, research and partnerships with industry, we enable our students to succeed as future-facing creatives in the always-evolving design, media and screen industries.

The London College of Communication experience is all about learning by doing. Our students get their hands dirty and develop their skills through the exploration of our facilities and technical spaces. Students work on live briefs and commissions, with everything from independent start-ups and charities in Southwark, through to major global companies, including Penguin, the National Trust and Royal Mail, to name a few.