Graphic Design

You will study a combination of illustration, typography, editorial, advertising and branding, package design, design for print, computer graphics, multimedia design, animation and special effects, storyboarding and layout.

Unit 1 (40%) – personal creative enquiry, unit 2 (36) – personal investigation and unit 3 (24%) – externally set assignment.

Graphic design is a tool that that communicates with people in an efficient manner. It serves to deliver a message to the target audience in an aesthetic way. Graphic design is an art that has a purpose and objective. Graphics combines well with a wide range of subjects due to the variety of skills required to be successful, from the technical and analytical to the creative. It most naturally links well with subjects such as art, photography or film and TV. It can also compliment science and maths as a pathway to further study in to, architecture and other design careers.

The course provides secure foundations for progression onto design-based degree courses, such as illustration, architecture, interior design and product design. It is a well-established and respected creative subject that provides transferrable skills which will cross over to any profession or degree course. Employers and university admissions tutors alike welcome the skills that studying graphics provides, such as independent learning, teamwork, analysis, active listening, communication and working to deadlines.

The course provides secure foundations for progression onto design-based degree courses, such as illustration, architecture, interior design and product design. It is a well-established and respected creative subject that provides transferrable skills which will cross over to any profession or degree course. Employers and university admissions tutors alike welcome the skills that studying graphics provides, such as independent learning, teamwork, analysis, active listening, communication and working to deadlines.

The course provides secure foundations for progression onto design-based degree courses, such as illustration, architecture, interior design and product design. It is a well-established and respected creative subject that provides transferrable skills which will cross over to any profession or degree course. Employers and university admissions tutors alike welcome the skills that studying graphics provides, such as independent learning, teamwork, analysis, active listening, communication and working to deadlines.

The course provides secure foundations for progression onto design-based degree courses, such as illustration, architecture, interior design and product design. It is a well-established and respected creative subject that provides transferrable skills which will cross over to any profession or degree course. Employers and university admissions tutors alike welcome the skills that studying graphics provides, such as independent learning, teamwork, analysis, active listening, communication and working to deadlines.

The course provides secure foundations for progression onto design-based degree courses, such as illustration, architecture, interior design and product design. It is a well-established and respected creative subject that provides transferrable skills which will cross over to any profession or degree course. Employers and university admissions tutors alike welcome the skills that studying graphics provides, such as independent learning, teamwork, analysis, active listening, communication and working to deadlines.