Studying visual communication design at UTS empowers you with the skills, methods and critical thinking you need to transform your creativity into a career. Working across a broad range of mediums you’ll tackle real-world problems and develop solutions that emphasise positive social change. UTS and the School of Design is where creativity meets innovation – just one reason our school is ranked in the world's top 30 (QS rankings for Art & Design 2022).
Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication
Duration
3 years full time
Location
City Campus
Recommended Year 12 studies
Visual Arts, Design & Technology, Advanced English
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Discover your place as a designer
Look around. We live in a world of images, text, media and devices. A world designed. The future we face is one of challenge and possibility. How we design that future will shape the rest of the century and beyond. At UTS, we believe that a better world is still possible – a world of social equity, environmental sensitivity, inspiration, beauty. And we invite you to help design it.
Here in the UTS Visual Communication (VisCom) program, working on Gadigal land, we encourage you to experiment with both traditional and emerging design practices and technologies to find your unique voice as a designer and develop your own visual language.
Your Visual Communication Design experience
Our degree is built around a hands-on, studio based culture combining traditional techniques and cutting edge tech. A solid grounding – in critical thinking and in design history, theory and research methods – sets you up to produce conceptually rigorous work that stands out from the crowd. While a unique, dedicated and fully-equipped studio space for students brings the learning experience even closer to the realities of commercial practice . (With individual and collaborative desks, printers, lockers, even a kitchen, we believe this space is unique among Australian universities.)
Patta is a prototype app that combats social isolation by connecting people with animals in need of adoption. Awarded a Distinction (Identity) and Merit (Digital) in AGDA awards and silver in Best Design Awards New Zealand.
Tint Mints branding by Dash O’Brien-Georgeson awarded Merit in AGDA Awards.
Make connections
Mentored by industry experts you’ll learn alongside a cohort of sharp, like-minded young designers, providing you the connections you need to establish your future in the industry. Internships, global study experiences, and real-world briefs prepare you for your successful career in design.
Your design career
Your future in design is limitless, with career opportunities in areas as diverse as UX/UI design, strategy and branding, interaction design, graphic design and art direction, motion graphics, visual storytelling, illustration, design research, photography, and the moving image.
At UTS we strive to produce the graduates of the future: politically motivated, ethically aware, multidisciplinary in outlook, and with the design and communication skills essential to tackling the complex problems of the coming century.
Student project: Frank
Winner of D&AD Wood Pencil. Elby Chai, Georgia Urie, Jennifer Wen.
It’s hard being a teenager. They have little say in their education, and even less in society. With the climate crisis, sexism and racial inequality, it’s no wonder that more than 60% of Gen Z are feeling pessimistic about what’s to come. So what can they do as they watch their future being written for them, without them? Meet Frank, a digital publishing platform, where Gen Z can share the stories that matter to them, whether it’s fighting racism, dealing with puberty or falling in love.
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*QS Rankings 2022
