Graphic Design (with integrated foundation year)

Ignite your creativity and make an impact within the field of graphic design with our BA (Hons) Graphic Design with Integrated Foundation Year degree. From the moment your design is brought to life, there's no greater joy than seeing it out there in the real world. The art of combining typography, illustration, and photography to tell a captivating story is a craft that leaves a lasting impression.
Your journey begins with an introductory foundation year, designed to develop your skills, confidence, and core knowledge in a supportive and creative environment. This year helps you build strong artistic and academic foundations, ensuring you’re fully prepared to progress smoothly into the undergraduate degree.
Our career-focused course is highly practical, giving you plenty of hands-on experience. You’ll learn graphic design, magazine design, illustration, UI/UX, and typography from experts in each of these specialisms, and use industry-standard software, equipment, and facilities.
You’ll gain the necessary creative and technical expertise, experience, and confidence to launch your career whilst building the problem-solving, team working, and time management skills needed to be a successful graphic designer. You will further develop impactful visual communication skills as you refine the art of engaging and captivating audiences through your designs across both print and digital media.
Prepare yourself to be challenged and push boundaries with live briefs from our established network of industry professionals. You'll join a vibrant creative community and be supported by expert tutors to discover, develop, and translate your artistic voice in design.

Module Examples

• Making Images

• Making Objects

• Visual Enquiry

• Introducing Visual Communication

• Multi-Dimensional Graphic Design

• Collaborative Practice

• The Designer’s Toolkit

• Type and Typography

• Graphic Design Projects

• Advanced Design Projects

• Independent Research Paper

• Graphic Design Showcase

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/graphic-design-with-integrated-foundation-year/

The range of learning teaching and assessment methods used enables different aspects of your learning to be developed and tested. As well as testing what you know and can do at the end of a module (Summative Assessment) you’ll get regular advice and guidance while your work is in progress (Formative Feedback) through one-to-one, peer-to-peer and group tutorials where you will have the opportunity to discuss and develop strategies to develop your work. This enables you to develop and refine the work as it is being produced with the structured guidance required to achieve the best possible results.