On this BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree, you’ll develop your own visual identity, with a distinct typography emphasis and professional connections gained from our industry-active, research-led teaching staff. With opportunities to specialise in your area of interest and win awards from prestigious graphic design bodies, you’ll build an inspiring design profile that no employer can resist.
Graphic design is a cornerstone of many industries, so you'll have lots of career options after graduation. If you want to start in web design, advertising, branding, and other media, or advance to a Master's: now is your time to explore.
Course highlights:
- Hone vital design techniques – including screen printing, letterpress, laser cutting and dye sublimation printing – using our specialist facilities
- Get your talent recognised by entering international competitions by renowned organisations You Can Now (YCN), Design and Art Direction (D&AD), and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA)
- Elevate your professional profile by becoming a member of the esteemed International Society of Typographic Designers (iSTD)
- Impress future employers by showcasing your work at our annual Graduate Show
- Experience the graphic design profession by taking a one-year placement - either with a company or by setting up your own
- Show your Adobe expertise to industry peers by gaining an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) qualification
- Connect with companies and communities by taking part in events like SKY Creative Day
Our degree courses with Foundation year offer the opportunity to prepare you for advanced study before you progress onto a full honours degree at the University of Westminster.
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
On this course you’ll learn a broad range of creative, technical and professional skills and use these to respond to industry-standard briefs and collaborative project work – preparing you for life as a professional graphic designer.
Our Graphic Design BA reflects both the multi-disciplinary nature of today’s graphic design industry and the constantly evolving society in which we live.
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
Photography combines technical instruction and creative freedom. Whether you’re interested in digital photography or traditional darkroom-based work, you’ll receive expert support and tuition. This is an ideal subject for students wishing to follow a path into film, media, the arts and photography-related areas. Photography is regarded as a cross-curricular subject and is accepted by universities and colleges as a discipline showing wide-ranging ability.
Why choose us?
Continually achieving nationally recognised high standards. Fully-equipped darkroom and film developing room. Excellent range of computers, all with Adobe Photoshop. Yearly exhibitions of student work. 100% pass rate achieved since 2015. Freedom to plan your own major project theme.
Many students go on to study Photography, Film and Animation or Visual Arts at university, or combined degrees such as Historical and Cultural Studies, or Media and Computer Imagery. Possible careers include commercial/fine art photography, freelance photography/photojournalism, advertising, graphic design, multi-media, film and television.
Popular modules
Assessments will be via a Personal Investigation assignment and an externally set task
This A Level course offers the opportunity to use a range of traditional and mixed media techniques alongside computer generated imagery
You will be expected to engage with complex design problems and to arrive at solutions that promote, publicise, inform, persuade and entertain. Outcomes are varied and student-led: from rebranding a shop or cafe, to designing an album cover, to producing the publicity for a festival or the packaging for your favourite product, the choice is yours.
