Graphic Communication Design

About this programme

BA Graphic Communication Design supports interdisciplinary, hybrid and specialist designers. This course aims to equip you with the creative, conceptual, technical and critical skills expected of designers in the twenty-first century. It is part of the Graphic Communication Design programme. Breadth of skills and expertise: You will engage with a range of specialist Graphic Communication Design practices and disciplinary areas of expertise. Generalist, hybrid and specialist practices emerge from the meeting and mixing of GCD Practices and Platforms that cross traditional discipline boundaries. Contextualised practice: We use Graphic Communication Design to explore and address current environmental, cultural and social complexities and encourage a renewed consideration of consumerism, ethics and design for social good. We ask questions: The course has a long tradition of “thinking through making” where the conventions of the discipline are challenged through rigorous experimentation of ideas, processes and techniques. This supports the development of curious, critical and reflective practitioners who are responsive to, and influential in, shifts within the discipline. Learning together: We use learning strategies that encourage community and collaborative learning cultivated from the wide variety of individual backgrounds and cultural experiences of our international and diverse student and staff community. The course adopts an integrated approach to researching, writing and making which is enriched by collaboration as students share their ideas and interests and constr