BA (Hons) Graphic Design
Overview
Graphic design is an exciting, dynamic and expanding area of creative practice and courses like ours – which set the digital media on an equal footing with a range of experimental craft processes and allow designers to make and model their ideas – are back in demand.
The graphic design industry continues to play a vital role at every level of society as the voice of visual communications, bringing, for example, clarity to the confusion of hospitals and transport systems, and style and elegance to the surface of ordinary things and everyday life. Through our commitment to teaching core skills of visual communication, such as typography, print and illustration along with digital media and experimentation, we will encourage you to develop an individual style and identity.
You will investigate and practice communicating your ideas through a range of design disciplines – from brand identity to magazine design, illustration to information graphics, multimedia to web-based digital graphics.
To be successful as a graphic designer you must be innovative, creative and understand your tools, media and audience. Our programme will help you to develop these critical skills and to thrive within the contemporary graphic design industry. From day one you will operate as through you are in a professional studio, receiving live briefs and engaging with professional artists and companies. Your study will culminate in a number of London based shows such as New Blood and New Designers as well as the College Summer Show.
Award-winning students
Our students are more than just 'Graphic Design students' – they're Graphic Designers from the day they arrive. And award-winning ones at that.
Ash Henderson
Ash Henderson impressed at 2014's New Designers with his heat-sensitive interactive educational tool for children, winning the prestigious Sky Award. Ash's prize included £1,000 as well as a priceless one month internship with Sky's design team. Following this, Ash landed a job with JCDecaux – the biggest outdoor advertising corporation in the world. Read more.
Gethin Oliver
2014 graduate Gethin Oliver scored a £1,000 prize after entering – and winning – a competition set by Opta Sports, the biggest contributors of sports data in the world for his creative goals infographic. Read more.
Hannah Pellatt
Hannah picked up plaudits from legendary Graphic Designer Malcolm Garrett – who created the iconic artwork for bands like Buzzcocks, Magazine, Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel – who selected her at 2014's New Designers as one to watch in a blog for the Design Council. Read more.
Matt Wilson
Graduate of 2013, Matt Wilson's 'Conflict Free Electronics' impressed the Design Council at New Designers, winning the Future Pioneer prize. Read more.
Nicholas Martin
Nicholas Martin graduated in 2012 with a New Designers award and has since worked on projects for brands including Barbour, Calvin Klein and Sky. Read more.
The Design Hub: Plymouth College of Art has worked hard to develop positive links with employers in the creative sector and the HE Graphic Design graduate department are keen to formalise these relationships for mutual benefits.
