Graphic Design and Animation

If you’re keen to learn core creative industry skills – from the handmade to the digital, including 2D and 3D concept realisations – our Graphic Design and Animation BA(Hons) course is designed to set you up to succeed.

You can gain a wider understanding of the strategies behind developing your work, while building skills in storytelling narratives, visual language, branding, user experience.

It’s vital that you understand how graphic design – both static and motion based – works in the wider world, which is why we work with a range of communication theories and diverse guest speakers. This gives you the chance to understand the factors shaping the industry.

You can gain the techniques and skills to pursue a multi-media design career in evolving creative industries. From film and advertising to websites and social media, graphic design and animation co-exist across media channels, including digital, print and moving image.

Why Study Graphic Design and Animation BA(Hons) at University of Huddersfield? Enhance your graduate prospects by undertaking a skills-boosting work placement. Alternatively, you could set up your own freelance business through our Enterprise Placement Year. Your achievements will also be celebrated at our annual summer degree show.

This degree could open the door to a variety of career possibilities, too, in graphic design and animation itself, or in art, illustration, for example.

Why Huddersfield? Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.