Graphic Design

The BA (Hons) Graphic Design Programme encourages distinctive voices in communication practice. Alongside our sister programme, Digital Design & Advertising, our projects and programme ethos goes far beyond the aesthetic of design layout and typography. To be a graphic designer from The Northern, is to be a design communicator, a visionary and design specialist. The world and the way we understand, inhabit and navigate it, are changing and it’s the very nature of this that requires our students to rethink, question and constantly challenge the purpose graphic communication serves in society.

Our programme, promotes changemakers, we rethink what we know, we question what we do, and we challenge the world as we know it, through cutting edge design, through expansive experimentation, through new ideas and through our community. Collectively, as a design studio from the moment our students arrive, we make work that matters.

This degree emphasises mixed-media experimental work as well as real-world creative problem solving. Through live briefs students will develop industry relevant digital and analogue skills. If you are interested in the graphic design of branding, advertising, communication, typography and digital artwork this course is for you. As well as offering a conceptual approach to design through mixed-media, analogue and digital technology we offer areas of specialties including:

• Visual communication • Image-making & illustration • Printmaking (letterpress, risograph & screen printing) • Editorial design • Branding • Advertising • Typography • Packaging • Motion graphics

Awards Creative Conscience 2022: Winner, Impact Category Creative Conscience 2022: Winner, Mental Health Category D&AD 2022 New Blood: The Portfolios, Graphic Design D&AD 2022 New Blood: The Portfolios, Mixed Discipline Creative Conscience 2021: Winner, Human Rights Category