Design Fundamentals introduces four cornerstones of graphic design: idea generation; visual language; creative digital literacy; and formal typography, where you will work on experimental responses to short quick-fire activities through studio practice, digital workshops, and drawing and print exercises.

Typographic Explorations builds on design fundamentals by exploring how typography can be used creatively and expressively for both formal and experimental outcomes through studio practice and digital and 3D workshops.

This module explores the social impact of design and illustration through a focused lecture programme looking at the historical and contemporary contexts of design, with you responding to lecture themes through print media outcomes in specialist printmaking studios.

Applied Design & Illustration extends the learning developed through previous modules focusing on sequential narratives and their application through print and digital outcomes, developing an understanding of design and illustration as a tool for storytelling.

This module builds on the skills and knowledge introduced at Level 4 to deepen students’ understanding of contemporary visual identity, branding, design systems and guidelines, working on negotiated projects with a focus on professional standards.

Design for Screen introduces user interface design, (UI), and user experience design, (UX), alongside sequential narratives for screen and action prompts, through negotiated projects that allow you to explore user-personas, lo-fi to hi-fi modelling and wireframing for web and app-based outcomes for creative outcomes.

This module introduces you to studio practice, exploring themes of professional conduct, workplace environments, working with clients, managing workflows, studio set-ups, pitching, and contemporary practice, to contextualise your learning to date.

Critical Perspectives builds on Level 4 Social Contexts of Design & Illustration to develop your research methods, critical thinking and questioning, towards a choice of written and textual outputs, while establishing the underpinning skills required for academic study at Level 6.

Professional Design Practice allows you to gain experience of working on client-facing live projects, accompanied by employability focused activities and exercises, providing ‘real-world’ and experiential learning through industry focused projects.

Work Based Learning is an optional module which replaces Professional Design Practice, giving you the opportunity to organise and complete a work placement, and use your experience towards your degree.

Research into Practice explores the importance of research to both visual and text-based outcomes. It provides you with the opportunity to reflect on previous work you’ve done at Level 4 and 5, and your working processes, before developing research around a personal discipline interest, as the first steps towards creating a graduate portfolio aligned to future employment or postgraduate education options.

Building on Research into Practice part 1, this module introduces industry focused projects and competitions alongside portfolio reviews to help you test your emerging graduate ambitions. You also complete a personal research focused written or textual project, as an extension of work started in part 1, developing skills for post-graduate study while widening your employment potential and further relating the importance of research to situated design practice.

This module works from the foundations laid down in Research into Practice, allowing you to focus on a societal issue, through personally led independent project research + development, towards completing a significant, multifaceted outcome, while continuing to hone your graduate portfolio towards your graduate ambitions.

Developing work started in part 1, alongside working towards your degree show and finalising your personal portfolio of work, you complete your significant and multifaceted project while developing a graduate employability toolkit to best position yourself for post-degree opportunities and in preparation for leaving the course.

Design Fundamentals introduces four cornerstones of graphic design: idea generation; visual language; creative digital literacy; and formal typography, where you will work on experimental responses to short quick-fire activities through studio practice, digital workshops, and drawing and print exercises.

Typographic Explorations builds on design fundamentals by exploring how typography can be used creatively and expressively for both formal and experimental outcomes through studio practice and digital and 3D workshops.

This module explores the social impact of design and illustration through a focused lecture programme looking at the historical and contemporary contexts of design, with you responding to lecture themes through print media outcomes in specialist printmaking studios.

Applied Design & Illustration extends the learning developed through previous modules focusing on sequential narratives and their application through print and digital outcomes, developing an understanding of design and illustration as a tool for storytelling.

This module builds on the skills and knowledge introduced at Level 4 to deepen students’ understanding of contemporary visual identity, branding, design systems and guidelines, working on negotiated projects with a focus on professional standards.

Design for Screen introduces user interface design, (UI), and user experience design, (UX), alongside sequential narratives for screen and action prompts, through negotiated projects that allow you to explore user-personas, lo-fi to hi-fi modelling and wireframing for web and app-based outcomes for creative outcomes.

This module introduces you to studio practice, exploring themes of professional conduct, workplace environments, working with clients, managing workflows, studio set-ups, pitching, and contemporary practice, to contextualise your learning to date.

Critical Perspectives builds on Level 4 Social Contexts of Design & Illustration to develop your research methods, critical thinking and questioning, towards a choice of written and textual outputs, while establishing the underpinning skills required for academic study at Level 6.

Professional Design Practice allows you to gain experience of working on client-facing live projects, accompanied by employability focused activities and exercises, providing ‘real-world’ and experiential learning through industry focused projects.

Work Based Learning is an optional module which replaces Professional Design Practice, giving you the opportunity to organise and complete a work placement, and use your experience towards your degree.

Research into Practice explores the importance of research to both visual and text-based outcomes. It provides you with the opportunity to reflect on previous work you’ve done at Level 4 and 5, and your working processes, before developing research around a personal discipline interest, as the first steps towards creating a graduate portfolio aligned to future employment or postgraduate education options.

Building on Research into Practice part 1, this module introduces industry focused projects and competitions alongside portfolio reviews to help you test your emerging graduate ambitions. You also complete a personal research focused written or textual project, as an extension of work started in part 1, developing skills for post-graduate study while widening your employment potential and further relating the importance of research to situated design practice.

This module works from the foundations laid down in Research into Practice, allowing you to focus on a societal issue, through personally led independent project research + development, towards completing a significant, multifaceted outcome, while continuing to hone your graduate portfolio towards your graduate ambitions.

Developing work started in part 1, alongside working towards your degree show and finalising your personal portfolio of work, you complete your significant and multifaceted project while developing a graduate employability toolkit to best position yourself for post-degree opportunities and in preparation for leaving the course.