Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication

This course is tailored for aspiring visual communication professionals seeking to master the interplay of design, culture, and media. Choose this course to gain a comprehensive understanding of visual communication's history, practice, and significance, equipping you with the skills to navigate the evolving landscape of visual technology and media.

What sets this course apart is its socially responsible practice-oriented approach within a studio-based environment, offering interdisciplinary studies in typography, interaction, and image-making. You'll benefit from a dedicated studio space and instruction from industry experts, covering a broad spectrum from visual culture theory to advanced creative digital work.

You will develop a robust skill set, including digital media, interaction design, photography, editorial design, and more, using both traditional and experimental research methods. The course emphasizes real-world problem-solving, collaboration, and industry engagement, preparing you to articulate and apply design practices effectively.

Learning occurs through hands-on studio work, theoretical exploration, and collaborative projects with industry clients, ensuring you graduate with relevant experience and the ability to work across various disciplines. This prepares you for careers in digital media, graphic design, user experience design, web design, visual identity, motion graphics, and beyond, as well as roles in research, editing, and design thinking in various sectors.

Students immerse themselves in a practice-oriented, studio-based culture, studying a range of interdisciplinary subjects encompassing typography, interaction and image-making. With access to a dedicated, fully-equipped studio space that brings the learning experience even closer to the realities of commercial practice. 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.