With an emphasis on design thinking and crafting big ideas beautifully, this course is your springboard to a career in the creative industries. You’ll discover how to solve challenging questions facing society and business today with great ideas delivered across print and digital platforms.

Through this industry-focused graphic design degree, you’ll learn to be an adept visual communicator, developing core skills in typography, branding, visual language, craft and critical thinking. You’ll experiment and explore as you move through the course, defining your identity and critical perspective to become a fully formed practitioner, ready for industry or further postgraduate study.

You will:

• Have the opportunity to head to London for a week, where you'll visit a range of different studios, from brand design studio Wiedemann Lampe and advertising agency BBH to Pentagram, one of the world's largest independent design consultancies.
• Enjoy optional travel to cities abroad to gain global perspectives on the subject.
• Work on briefs created with, and supported by, industry practitioners.
• Have the chance to enter creative competitions such as D&AD, ISTD and the Creative Conscience Awards.
• Apply to go on an industry placement in the summer before your third year.
• Create an industry-standard portfolio in your third year as a catalyst for your creative industries career.

What you'll learn

With design process and problem-solving at its heart, this graphic design degree explores how creative and meaningful ideas can be made. You'll study the historical, social and cultural issues connecting theory and practice, and gain real-world skills from live briefs and workshops with leading designers.

How you'll learn

You'll attend group tutorials, seminars, workshops, peer critiques and regular individual tutorials – giving you the chance to present work and hear feedback in our new, dedicated studio space. This is based on approaches and learning from industry, so you develop career-orientated skills from day one.