Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation

This course is designed for aspiring visual communication professionals seeking to master the interplay between design, culture, and media. Choose this course to gain a comprehensive understanding of visual history and practices, and to develop the skills necessary to navigate the evolving landscape of visual technology and media.

What sets this course apart is its transdisciplinary approach, blending insights from various fields and incorporating industry experience, real-world projects, and self-directed proposals. This approach prepares you to tackle complex challenges and seize unexplored opportunities in today's dynamic environment.

You will learn through a practice-oriented, studio-based environment, covering interdisciplinary subjects such as typography, interaction, and image-making. Our expert instructors will guide you from the fundamentals of visual culture and technology to advanced creative work in digital media and beyond. You will engage with both traditional and experimental research methods, producing work that is conceptually sound and socially relevant.

The teaching method is interactive and collaborative, emphasizing real-world issues and team-based solutions. You will gain industry experience through projects with real clients and work placements, ensuring you are career-ready upon graduation.

Students immerse themselves in a practice-oriented, studio-based culture, studying a range of interdisciplinary subjects encompassing typography, interaction and image-making. Taught by experts in visual communication, students learn everything from the history and theory of visual culture and technology to producing cutting edge creative work in digital media, interaction design, photography, editorial design, information visualisation, web design, wayfinding, mobile apps, code, machine learning, motion graphics, the internet of things and 3D technologies such as VR/AR and 3D printing. Exploring both traditional and experimental research methods students learn to produce conceptually rigorous and socially responsive work. They graduate with the capacity to work across and between disciplines, to articulate design practices and processes, and to apply them to complex problems. Graduates develop industry experience through the degree's emphasis on addressing real-world issues in collaborative and team-based work.

By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own across disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate in a rapidly changing world.