Course summary

Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will give you a wide range of skills, techniques, and initiative, allowing you to make a big impact in a broad range of industry areas. Your passion for graphics will help you to flourish during the degree helping you to develop your own communicative style in a variety of contexts and environments. You will develop a solid understanding of graphic design principles, while having the freedom to express your creative talents across a wide range of technologies and industries including, design for print and screen, moving image, packaging, publishing, brand identity, and typography and persuasive visual messaging. You will be able work in your own dedicated space in our new University Centre, with access to the latest PC and Mac computer software. You will be able to develop your skills in a range of industry standard programmes including Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as Cinema 4D. Our thought-provoking lectures will give you the confidence to create strong visual messaging, helping you to achieve the aims and objectives of client briefs. You will be able to raise your profile as a graphic designer during a number of activities throughout the year, including work experience placements in the industry, entering your work into local and national competitions, and exhibiting your work at our end of year degree show. Hastings is a ‘creative hub’ meaning that you will have plenty of opportunity to work on live projects, visits to graphic design agencies and studios and gain valuable knowledge and experience. You will have the advantage of being part of smaller class sizes giving you increased contact time with your tutors, providing you with real value for money. We believe that our degree will give you an abundance of transferable skills, reinforcing the vocational aspects of the course, providing you with intellectual flexibility and sustainability to take into your future career. Once you have graduated, you will have a diverse range of transferable skills that will enable you to start you career in this exciting industry. You will be fully equipped to seek out roles and apply your knowledge as a freelance designer, or equally equipped to work in graphic design agencies around the world. Other options could include further study onto MA programmes or complete a Post Graduate Certificate of Education. Our past students have won over 60 national and international student design awards during their time with us. Awards include YCN, D&AD and RSA.