Design Management

BA (Hons) Design Management will teach you how to produce, facilitate and strategise to solve problems in different areas, from business to social and global challenges. With innovation as its core, you’ll get an introduction in making positive change for diverse organisations with a skillset that develops your entrepreneurial spirit.

Why choose this course at London College of Communication

• Connecting creativity and business: You will gain core skills of creative and critical thinking, understanding context, entrepreneurship, management and communications, social justice, sustainability and climate justice so that you can succeed in the creative economy.

• Industry links and collaboration: We encourage our students to proactively develop their industry connections. We invite industry professionals to share their experiences in guest lectures and feedback sessions.

• Graduate success: Our graduates work at agencies whose clients include global brands like Google as well as government departments, such as the Singapore Design Council.

What to expect?

• Foundational knowledge and skills: Develop essential skills for design management practice including visual communication, design research, basic project management, and production.

• Experimentation and innovation: You'll experiment and engage with emerging practices as you develop skills in insights and trend forecasting to understand how contemporary branding and marketing relate.

• Collaboration: Work collaboratively, co-designing and understanding cultures and client and user needs through the lens of socially responsible enterprise, innovation and organisational change.

• Strategic problem-solving: With enterprise and innovation in mind you'll research and create an independent project to instigate change, acknowledging industry contexts and connections and embodying sustainable and ethical practices.

• Practical projects and workshops: Engage in immersive experiences of the design process, including research methods, defining and reframing problems, developing briefs, brainstorming, prototyping, testing, delivery and assessing effectiveness.

Industry experience and opportunities

This course prepares you for roles such as project or studio manager, brand strategist, researcher, creative director, strategic designer, marketer, entrepreneur.

You work on live industry briefs, collaborate with professionals and hear from regular guest speakers. In Year 2 you take on industry projects, and in your final year industry practitioners support your tutorials.

You’ll have the opportunity to undertake the Diploma in Professional Studies or the Diploma in Creative Computing between Years 2 and 3 to enhance your learning experience and employability skills.

You’ll have the opportunity to undertake the Diploma in Professional Studies or the UAL Diploma in Creative Computing between Years 2 and 3 to enhance your learning experience and employability skills.

About London College of Communication

At LCC, you’ll learn how to bring together technology, creativity and storytelling, while building the skills, confidence and networks you need for your future career. We’ll support you to develop a future‑proof mindset, so you’re ready to succeed in the industries you’re heading into.

Here, you’ll explore what matters to you, developing work that reflects your interests, values and ambitions.

As part of University of the Arts London — ranked 2nd in the world for Art and Design — you’ll join one of the world’s leading creative universities and unlock the opportunities that come with it (QS World University Rankings by Subject).