BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Institution lawmaking: N39
Course iii Year UCAS code: W210
Grade 4 Year UCAS code: W216
Course length: iii or iv twelvemonth options

You will be inspired to create innovative answers to branding, packaging and promotional design questions facing businesses on NUA's internationally-renowned Graphic Design degree.

Our BA (Hons) course has a global reputation for producing graduates who are creative thinkers with accomplished technical skills and a strong grasp of the latest technology.

The course benefits from close links to some of the leading names in the pattern industry.

Yous'll follow a proven path that has led to NUA graduates securing roles at some of the Uk'southward leading design studios, branding and advertising agencies.

Blueprint ideas that work

Our class has a strong emphasis on commercial work and you'll be challenged to generate loftier quality creative solutions, including:

  • Visual identities
  • Packaging
  • Websites
  • Cross-platform advert campaigns.

Briefs are designed to inspire you to generate original, innovative and – crucially – effective design solutions.

You'll acquire how to question a brief using research techniques that volition help you develop a thorough agreement of each client, their challenges and target market.

Futurity-thinking about Graphic Design

Yous'll exist taught by passionate and experienced tutors who have worked in some of the best design agencies in the UK.

And their reputation for nurturing talent, coupled with our strong reputation in industry, means that leading design groups and agencies seek actively to recruit graduates from the course, including:

  • Carter Wong
  • Turner Duckworth
  • Brandhouse
  • Design Bridge
  • Pearlfisher
  • Lewis Moberly
  • BrandOpus
  • JKR
  • Ziggurat
  • Bloom

Graduates work in a broad range of careers including

  • Graphic Designer
  • Packaging Designer
  • Creative Director
  • Branding Designer
  • Editorial Designer Brand Strategist
  • Copywriter
  • Marketing Artistic
  • Photographer
  • Website/App Designer
  • Printmaker/Printer

You'll also get specialist creative careers communication from our Careers Team in the Ideas FactoryNUA to help support you as you plan your career.

All courses run as a blend of on-campus and digital teaching and learning, and follow current Britain government safety advice. Applicants and students will exist notified directly if any changes demand to be fabricated.

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Course content

  • Year ane
  • Develop skills in typography, printing, layout, photography, blueprint research, idea generation, visual narrative and story telling
  • Learn technical skills in various design-related digital media such equally InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Explore impress, newspaper, material, format and hand-craft/making skills
  • Develop your ability to design solutions for presenting complex data and information through editorial blueprint and infographics.
  • Year 2
  • Piece of work on visual identity, packaging design, advertising and promotion, design for digital platforms and editorial blueprint
  • Work on projects set up by external bodies such every bit manufacture employers, alive clients and competition briefs
  • Pitch your work to leading manufacture professionals
  • Collaborate with 2d yr students from another course at NUA on interdisciplinary projects.
  • Year three
  • Construct a professional portfolio of work
  • Undertake projects including competition briefs and other professionally-focused projects
  • Heighten creative thinking, idea generation and problem solving; alongside core skills in typography, image use and production
  • Complete a Research Written report that provides wide contextualisation to your exercise.
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  • Entry requirements

  • Portfolio guidance

  • Fees and funding

  • Four year degree

Typical UK offers

A / AS Levels – GCE
GCE A/As Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BBB. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, NUA will consider combinations of A-level/Every bit-level and other Level iii qualifications.

BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF)
Distinction, Merit, Merit in an fine art, design or media related subject field

BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF)
Distinction*, Distinction* in an fine art, blueprint or media related subject

UAL Extended Diploma
Merit

UAL Level three Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Merit

UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Pass

Foundation Diploma in Art and Pattern
Merit

Access to Higher Instruction Diploma (Art and Blueprint)
Pass

International Baccalaureate Diploma
A minimum of 27 points

NUA welcomes applicants of all ages from all backgrounds. Your application will exist primarily assessed through your portfolio, responses to questions asked and personal argument, so even if you have no formal qualifications or practise not meet our typical offers it can all the same be worth applying.

If you lot are studying at the time of your application and your awarding is successful it is likely that you lot will receive a conditional offering.

If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry every bit we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications also as combinations of dissimilar qualifications. Please exercise contact our Student Recruitment Team if you have any queries.

International applications

We accept qualifications from all over the world. To find our entry requirements from a specific country, delight check our dedicated international pages.

Well-nigh international students are required to hold an English language qualification. Applicants are required to have a minimum UKVI canonical IELTS exam score of 6.0 overall, with a minimum of v.five in each section. Equivalent English language qualifications are acceptable such equally, IB English language syllabus A or B/English Literature (Class 4).

We also accept some alternative English qualifications. Larn more about our English language entry requirements.

You can e-mail us on international@nua.ac.uk if you'd like to discuss your application individually.

BA (Hons) Graphic Blueprint caste portfolio guidance

Your portfolio should be relevant to this course, but you can include a wide range of work that shows your creativity, technical competence and understanding of innovative design.

You may wish to include some of the following:

  • Drawings, painting or illustrations that demonstrate your image making skills, including life drawings, images drawn from observing people and landscapes or from your imagination
  • Models or sculptural works in whatsoever medium
  • Experiments in diverse print making processes
  • Typography
  • Editorial work
  • Collages, montages and mixed media
  • Web design
  • Audio blueprint
  • Flick or animation piece of work
  • Photography
  • Work created using Adobe Creative Suite or other appropriate blueprint software bundle
  • Package design
  • Visual identity
  • Advertising
  • Brand extension – how your idea works across a range of media
  • Suggestions for context (i.e. where you lot see this piece of work being used)

Further portfolio advice and tips

Get more advice on presentation formats, layouts and when to submit your portfolio in the application procedure.

2022/23 University fees for new entrants

NUA volition assess students' tuition fee status using the guidance provided by the UK Council for International Student Affairs

Students from the U.k. or Republic of ireland and EU students with 'Settled' or 'Pre-Settled' condition volition exist charged 'Home' fees if they run into the relevant residency requirements.  They will usually be eligible for a tuition fee loan from the UK authorities, significant that they won't accept to pay NUA'due south tuition fees upwards front.

Students who exercise not encounter the necessary residency requirements will usually exist charged 'Overseas' fees and will not exist eligible for the UK government tuition fee loan. Since 2021/22, this includes new entrants from the European union, EEA, and Switzerland who exercise not take 'Settled' or 'Pre-Settled' status, because the UK has now formally left the EU.

Fee status Grade Fee
Home Undergraduate degree (full-time three and four year degree) £9,250
Overseas Undergraduate degree (total-fourth dimension three and four year caste) £17,500

In subsequent years inflation may exist applied to the fees of those who started in 2022/23, at no more than the Office for Students' recommended measure based on forecast RPI-Ten.

Financial back up for UK students in 2022

Tuition fee loans and loans for living costs are unremarkably available to UK and some EU students, besides as not-repayable NUA bursaries based on family income. Find out more than about applying for funding.

Four year degree

Our innovative four year degrees are exactly the same as our iii year degrees but include an extra year of study at the beginning – Year 0.

Year 0 is all near developing the skills and knowledge you need to successfully complete your degree course. Edifice on your experience from A Level or equivalent courses, the Year 0 curriculum allows extra time to develop the practical, technical and creative skills that are critical to successfully completing an undergraduate caste at NUA.

While studying Yr 0 BA (Hons) Graphic Pattern you'll proceeds fundamental design skills centred around typography, publishing, packaging and edifice a make. You volition first encounter 4 intense week-long projects, each focused on a key area of pattern, earlier progressing to explore graphic sequences and thematic design.

There are weekly critiques on progress and yous will exist expected to engage fully with the iterative process. There will also be an opportunity to negotiate your own cursory. Regular workshops volition enable y'all to continually build on your digital skills using manufacture standard software.

Y'all'll be taught by Graphics tutors throughout and you'll have the opportunity to join first, second and tertiary year students for guest lectures.

Typical UK offers and entry requirements for Year 0 entry

GCE A/Every bit Levels
two A-level qualifications at grades CC or college.

BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF)
Merit, Merit, Pass in an art, design or media related bailiwick

BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF)
Stardom, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

UAL Extended Diploma
An overall Pass

UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Fine art and Pattern
An overall Pass

Foundation Diploma in Art and Pattern
Pass

Access to Higher Education Diploma (Fine art and Design)
Pass

International Baccalaureate Diploma
A minimum of 24 points

NUA welcomes applicants of all ages from all backgrounds. Your awarding will be primarily assessed through interview and portfolio review and then even if yous have no formal qualifications or practise not run across our typical offers information technology tin can still be worth applying.

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Lecturers

  • Mette Ambeck

  • Emma Bailey

  • Bryony Birkbeck

  • Jordan Blyth

  • Christopher Challinor

  • Martin Devenney

  • Maria Fletcher

  • Helen Furness

  • Mike Harrington

  • Neil Hedger

  • Andrew Johnson

  • Simon Loxley

  • Professor Laura Jordan Bambach (Visiting Lecturer)

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  • Sean Perkins and guests (Visiting Lecturer)

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  • David Pearson (Visiting Lecturer)

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