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University of Hertfordshire BA (Hons) Graphic Design
University of Hertfordshire

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

3 up to 4 Years

English

Full time

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GBP 13,450 *

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* international students full time / UK students full time £9250 / EU students full time £13450

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Introduction

"Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, examinations may be replaced by an alternative form of assessment during the academic year 2021/2022. Please refer to the Programme Specification on these pages for further details."

Why choose this course?

Creativity, craft, and community. If you’re looking for a career where you’ll never stop exploring, experimenting, and creating a positive impact on the world around you, graphic design could be the one for you.

Our course is your chance to dive into a world of contemporary design, try incredible techniques, and make lifelong friendships with like-minded creatives. It’s a career launchpad like no other – and it’s taken our graduates to some pretty impressive places. If you love expressing yourself visually, testing out new processes, making work that makes people go ‘wow’, and learning from the best – this course could be right up your street.

What are the facilities like?

Amazing. Learn in our vibrant, dedicated studio spaces and Mac labs. Do your research in our 24/7 library. Craft something unique in our screen-printing, bookbinding, and hackspaces. And try your hand at new techniques in our 3D design and laser-cutting workshops.

What's the course about?

You’ll spend your first year immersed in our studio, getting a solid grounding in print and digital projects, working alongside our Illustration students. You’ll be constantly challenged, supported, and encouraged as you learn technical skills, experiment, take risks and push new boundaries. If you’re also considering our Illustration degree, you can explore both and easily swap between the two in the first three months.

You’ll begin by learning the understated power of typography, logo design, brand identity, and layout – fundamentals that will underpin your craft, whatever direction you take. With them under your belt, at the end of the year, you’ll have the option of continuing on a pure Graphic Design pathway or switching to our Graphic Design: Advertising and Branding degree.

Your second year is a dynamic mixture of personal experimentation, balanced with a more professional focus. Regular sessions encourage you to develop your own visual style; whilst workshops teach more advanced software skills as well as a variety of printing techniques, collaborations with the other pathways, and an international study trip. The year is also about working on live briefs with some of the world’s highest-profile design agencies and developing your portfolio and building a CV. There’s the chance to explore everything today’s tech has to offer, crafting your website, building your social media profile, and creating a unique narrative that shows top design employers what an amazing designer you are. Throughout the course, we’ll help you to investigate, understand and critique the history of the subject, the theories behind what’s happening in contemporary design as well as looking into future trends.

Work placement/study abroad option: Between your second and final year, you’ll have the option to study abroad or do a work placement for up to a year. Not only will this give you an amazing experience to talk about but will also give your CV a boost. If you’d rather go straight to your final year, that’s absolutely fine too.

By the time you start your final year, you’ll have a solid understanding of design and the specialisms that fire your imagination. You’ll pick from a huge range of creative projects, workshops, and live briefs as well as developing your own self-directed projects — building a completely personal, standout portfolio. We’ll encourage original thinking, but we’ll also give you tons of support, inspiration, and encouragement.

And we won’t be the only ones. Throughout your course, we’ll invite amazing designers to lead workshops, set projects, and become your mentors. Our proximity to London means it’s easy for us to invite people doing the most innovative and exciting work with us.

It’s a powerful mix of freedom, inspiration, and support that prepares you for an incredible career. In fact, in recent years it’s earned our student's award wins in all the most coveted competitions including D&AD yellow pencils, Creative Conscience Gold medals, and I.S.T.D. awards. So, join our community and turn your creativity into a career you love. Who knows? Maybe you’ll be next.

Your main campus is College Lane

This is where the creative arts, science, and health-related subjects are based. This means you’ll share the campus with future nurses, scientists, artists, and more. You can use the common rooms to relax with friends, work out in the 24-hour gym or have a drink in our on-campus pub or cafes. We also have restaurants for you to eat in or grab something on the go. Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus? You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.

This course includes the options of:

  • Work placement
  • Study abroad

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