Graphic Design with Integrated Foundation Year

Course Overview

Explore how visual communication shapes the world, beginning with an Integrated Foundation Year that builds your core creative and technical skills. Through studio-led, industry-focused projects, you’ll develop a versatile portfolio and gain the confidence to apply design thinking in new, immersive ways. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to connect with global audiences and step confidently into the design industry.

Why study this degree?

• Award-winning students and internationally recognised

• Taught by staff who are current design professionals

• Build yourself a fulfilling and future-focussed design career

• Innovative, forward-thinking and industry-focused.

• Work with industry practitioners to explore creative design thinking across a range of briefs

• Excellent employability rates and highly successful alumni

• Great career prospects with graphic designers in high demand.

Our BA (Hons) Graphic Design course has a vision of design that meets the future head-on. An ambitious course, your learning is technologically focused, open and collaborative, and applies design thinking to reach global audiences in new and immersive ways.

Students on our Graphic Design course will develop a critical eye for design and a knowledge of different design approaches and creative problem solving techniques. You will develop both the vision and the resilience to succeed in the creative industries.

This degree in Graphic Design allows you to work cross-media and explore the subject from a number of critical perspectives, challenging the different roles graphic designers can take. We value individualism and encourage concept-driven work, showing a clear understanding of design problems as well as the production of visual languages.

During this BA Hons Graphic Design degree in London, UK, you will explore novel ways of design thinking, including format, context, materials and medium. You will sharpen your creative skills and reimagine methods of communication through numerous visual platforms and environments, such as typography, editorial design, data visualisation and much more.

With access to cutting-edge facilities, you’ll work with industry practitioners to explore creative design thinking across a range of briefs. In dedicated studio spaces, you will study a blend of practice and theory-based learning strategies, including lectures, workshops, tutorials and live projects. Senior lecturers and visiting professionals will offer invaluable industry insight, as well as support your future career choices.

Key study topics

• Type and typography

• Editorial design

• Ideas and concepts

• Design innovation

• Information design and data visualisation

• Service design and creative coding

• Graphic design for promotion.

• The specifics

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS