Course summary

Ignite your creativity as you generate new ideas in an increasingly visual world. This course will enable you to showcase your design skills to industry. Develop your own creative approach to the study and practice of graphic design. You’ll work on a combination of brief-led and self-initiated projects. As part of this course, you’ll:

• Explore a wide spectrum of disciplines including design for print, illustration, photography, typography, animation and moving image

• Undertake national and international competition briefs which are externally assessed by industry professionals and academics

• Discover your strengths and develop your individual style

• Have the opportunity to gain professional mentoring from visiting practitioners from diverse fields of communication design

• Engage with organised studio visits alongside external exhibitions and events

• Showcase your projects to the public and impress industry by exhibiting your work at the end of your final year

• Drive your own learning and set your own targets, as you would in the workplace

• Harvey Nichols

• The BBC

• Leeds Art Gallery

• The NHS

• 100% of students on BA (Hons) Graphic Design were positive about the way teaching staff explain things*

• Our close links to industry and creative businesses will create multidisciplinary internship and placement opportunities

• Tutors with extensive experience as active practitioners will share their knowledge and professional contacts

• Study within one of the largest university arts communities in the north

• Leeds' thriving creative sector provides countless opportunities for graphic design graduates