This is a highly practical programme, designed to equip you with a wide range of creative, technological, business and personal skills.
The programme is broad-based, with the opportunity for specialised study to build your talents and develop skills necessary and relevant to a career in graphic design. Alternatively, it can lead to further study at honours degree level within the institution.
You will have opportunities to demonstrate your design ability across a wide range of live projects and commissions. Working with real clients, you will experience the design process from initial briefing all the way to the final client presentation. As your experience of real project work grows, so will your confidence.
The course is structured to help you explore the design process, achieved through a series of tutorials, lectures and practical workshops which include drawing, printmaking, typography and photography. In parallel with these you will be trained in the use of appropriate software. As the course progresses you will have the opportunity to study editorial design, advertising, illustration, typography, information and promotional design. You will also investigate the role of today's graphic designer in a wider industrial, cultural and historical context. You will become informed, practical and creative.
This course will integrate education with real world industry projects making it suitable for both newcomers as well as current designers seeking continuing professional development. The positive feedback we receive from our clients speak volumes about the quality of the course.
"The students' solutions to my briefs were of the highest quality and better than many I have seen presented by top agencies in London during my time at Film Four"
Type Factory poster by Sarah Scala
Editorial spread by Gary Austin
Group tutorial in progress