Graphic and Media Design

During your time on our BA (Hons) Graphic & Media Design course, you’ll become a professional Graphic Designer/Graphic Artist learning from industry experienced lecturers. We will support you in gaining work experience with local and national creative media companies, as well as giving you the opportunity to work with professional designers, artists and live clients.

This course will equip you with key skills for launching your exciting career in the creative industry including: Design for social media, UI/UX Design, branding, motion graphics, editorial design packaging design, graphic arts, graphic illustration, web design, app design, information graphics, book arts, animation and advertising.

As the teaching team are all industry experienced Graphic and Media Designers we are able to impart real-world knowledge, ensuring that you are taught to the standard that the industry will look for in a graduate. We will encourage you to express yourself through distinctive, creative, commercially savvy and ambitious ideas, working on projects individually and collaboratively with students from other disciplines across Hereford College of Arts. You will work in a professional but relaxed studio environment with plenty of individual work space and access to all the latest tech and software.

Our smaller group sizes mean you can receive support and creative challenges from industry-active tutors and technicians – as and when you need it.

You will be encouraged to personalise your journey throughout the course based on your passions and aptitudes, and to develop your own, unique graphic style and apply it to the many career choices available to you.

Industry Links

We have excellent connections with external employers, who provide many opportunities for commissioned work with live outcomes. Project partners have included SuperDry clothing, MASH Cinema and Hay Festival, amongst many others. HCA students have won awards in national design competitions such as D&AD & YCN. Our well-developed links with media industries in the region, London, and nationally, offer you invaluable professional experience, the chance of fantastic work placements, and a stimulating external speaker programme. In the past, final year students have exhibited at high profile graduate showcase exhibitions in London.

Your Creative Career

Our students successfully gain employment across a range of graphic design and media specialisms such as:

- Graphic Designer

- UI/UX Designer

- Marketing Designer/producer

- Motion Graphics Designer

- Editorial and Print Designer

- Brand creator and Manager

- Packaging Designer

- Art worker/Visualiser

- Graphic Artist

- Learning Designer

- Animator

- Architectural Drafter

- Art Director/ Creative Director

- Studio Manager

- Teacher

Students can also progress onto post-graduate study.

Highlights

1. Learn from experienced, practising professionals whose work includes a wide variety of contemporary screen and print media.
2. Fantastic access to teaching staff, workshops, and equipment. Consistent challenge and support from an industry skilled team to develop as a designer.
3. Explore your own passions, with the option of a graphic arts pathway.
4. Work alongside experienced professionals on live industry projects.
5. Collaborate with: photography, illustration, and animation students.
6. Develop your unique graphic voice and build a career that suits your professional desires.
7. A programme of visiting lecturers from around the world bringing cutting edge practice to HCA students.

Hereford College of Arts is an independent arts school surrounded by people who are passionate about the arts, media and performance. Being part of a dedicated creative community at HCA means it is easy to work across boundaries, access an exciting range of workshops, and collaborate with students across other disciplines.